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    May 22, 2019
    Our View: Clear the air with federal Tobacco 21
    Already, 12 states, in the name of improving health, have raised the legal age to buy tobacco from 18 to 21. Minnesota may join them as soon...
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    May 20, 2019
    Our View: What next?! In Minneapolis, drive-thrus in cross hairs
    Exasperated Duluthians can be left wondering once again: Will our City Council follow city officials elsewhere, most notably in Minneapolis,...
    opinion/editorialsMay 20, 2019 - 5:08pm
    Other View: What next?! In New York, fur is flying
    City Council Speaker Corey Johnson wants to ban fur clothes for sale in the five boroughs of New York City, excepting used apparel and that "sourced...
    opinion/editorialsMay 20, 2019 - 5:07pm
    Our View: Compromise? We'll take it!
    This was mostly how it should go, how it’s supposed to end, but Minnesotans can be forgiven if they were a bit surprised late Sunday when news started breaking of a compromise and a budget deal in St. Paul between Gov. Tim Walz and the politically divided Minnesota Legislature....
    opinion/editorialsMay 20, 2019 - 3:47pm
    May 18, 2019
    Our View: Consider all options to fix golf finances
    With Duluth's municipal golf courses hemorrhaging money year after disappointing year, to the tune of a racked-up $2.4 million in public debt,...
    opinion/editorialsMay 18, 2019 - 10:34pm
    May 15, 2019
    2018 News Tribune file photo -- Jeff Hofslund feeds a sturgeon at the Great Lakes Aquarium in February 2018.
    Our View: Aquarium building on 'amazing' turnaround
    Not all that long ago, any time the topic was taxpayer money being wasted in Duluth, the Great Lakes Aquarium — usually quite quickly —...
    opinion/editorialsMay 15, 2019 - 5:50pm
    May 13, 2019
    Our View: Relaunch chase for rural broadband
    For years, we've listened in disbelief to hard-to-fathom tales of Minnesota farm kids doing their homework in cars in town outside McDonald's...
    opinion/editorialsMay 13, 2019 - 5:38pm
    May 12, 2019
    An aerial view of the can of worms interchange at 21st Avenue West and Interstate 35 in Duluth. (file / News Tribune)
    Our View: Get involved to untangle can of worms
    MnDOT is pretty sure it knows exactly what you're going to do once the freeway ramps start closing, interstate lanes shut down, and four years...
    opinion/editorialsMay 12, 2019 - 6:33pm
    May 7, 2019
    Our View: Thought PolyMet took too long?
    Anyone thinking Minnesota's environmental permitting process is already a far cry from the speed of business can consider themselves warned....
    opinion/editorialsMay 7, 2019 - 5:10pm
    May 6, 2019
    Our View: State can step up its snuffing of smoking
    Long a national leader in clearing the air of cancer-causing tobacco use, the state of Minnesota can re-up its commitment this legislative session....
    opinion/editorialsMay 6, 2019 - 7:30pm
    May 4, 2019
    Other View: Insecurity over Russian interference harms national security
    This is unnerving: The New York Times and CNN report President Donald Trump's top staff wouldn't relay officials' fears about Russia using social media disinformation campaigns to interfere in the 2020 election because Trump sees such warnings as a comment on the legitimacy of his...
    opinion/editorialsMay 4, 2019 - 9:54pm
    May 2, 2019
    Our View: Add antiquated laws to list of unfinished work
    A surprising number of Minnesota laws related to sexual impropriety are, to say the least, "antiquated," as a St. Paul Pioneer Press story astutely...
    opinion/editorialsMay 2, 2019 - 4:46pm
    May 1, 2019
    Our View: Let state take sick-and-safe
    Many matters make sense at the local level, like parking and neighborhood traffic laws, or like liquor licenses and building permits so residents...
    opinion/editorialsMay 1, 2019 - 5:59pm
    April 29, 2019
    Our View: Regs in place, bring on scooters
    Contrary to at least one misleading headline by TV news and far-more-misleading and outright inaccurate statements on local talk radio and in...
    opinion/editorialsApril 29, 2019 - 5:16pm
    April 28, 2019
    Our View: End the Tax Day nightmares
    The Minnesota Legislature's failure last year to bring the state's tax code into conformity with overhauled federal tax rules turned Tax Day...
    opinion/editorialsApril 28, 2019 - 5:00pm
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