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If one U.S. senator has a shot at reining in the sort of speculating that artificially inflates and drives up gas prices — to $4 and maybe even $5 a gallon by this summer — how about 13 U.S. senators? We recently offered kudos to Sen. Amy Klobuchar for ripping off a letter to the U.S. Commodity ...

In 2008, the Supreme Court ruled that detainees at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, had the right to challenge their detentions in federal court. The ruling was a victory for the rule of law, guaranteeing independent review of what had been the executive’s unchecked ability to hold sus...

The state’s Sex Offender Program has always been plagued with a confounding problem. When some of the worst sex offenders have served all their prison time and probation there are only two choices: set them free into the community or ask the courts to indefinitely commit them as sexual predators a...

Whether or not it’s a trust issue between the public and local government officials, the need for public notices to be published in newspapers remains strong to this day. Issues such as school referenda are just one example of why public notices should remain in newspapers and, subsequently, on th...

There are few issues as serious as the risk of how to handle the 600 or so sex offenders in Minnesota treatment facilities, and the expected near doubling of this population in the next decade. Yet, so far, there doesn’t appear to be a lot of serious consideration among lawmakers and others of wha...

The earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan on March 11 damaged a nation already weakened by man-made problems. Japan has been stagnating, economically, politically and demographically, for two decades. Its national debt is roughly twice as big as its economy, which has been overtaken, in size, by ...

From 2000 to 2010, food shelf usage across Minnesota has tripled — from more than 1 million visits to more than 3 million visits annually. Welcome to arguably the most telling statistic about how tough the first decade of the 21st century was on Minnesotans. That’s right. As of last year, the 30...

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Some big guns recently recommended that Minnesota redistricting be done by an independent commission rather than by the state Legislature, which is otherwise preoccupied with fixing a $5 billion budget gap. Republicans in charge of the Legislature, however, want to retain that privilege, and there i...