The News Tribune's obvious Republican bias is showing.
The kicker was the secondary headline on the front page of the Aug. 7 paper, "Interchange reconstruction plan has more support under Trump." The headline was exposed for the Trumpian lie it was by reading to the end of the article (which was on an inside jump page: so well-buried). Toward the end of the story was this: "A 20 percent federal contribution to rural projects would be a sharp contrast to 80 percent federal contributions of the past, Hill explained, calling it an 'opposite.'" So the state and local contribution to this project would be 60 percent more than if the Republican Congress had released funds during the administration of President Barack Obama instead of blocking infrastructure funding during Obama's term. Gee, that's not how the headline read.
Deborah Anderson
Duluth
