Burcum: Will the Senate betray the Boundary Waters? This is not a drill: The Senate is poised to blow up Boundary Waters mining protections, columnist Jill Burcum writes.

This is not a drill: The Senate is poised to blow up Boundary Waters mining protections, columnist Jill Burcum writes.

Cirrus clouds hang over downtown in the shape of a Wi-Fi icon

Minneapolis has a great wifi connection this morning

Burcum: Two deaths. Zero accountability. "Does the United States now have a federal immigration force that can kill Americans in front of the public yet operates beyond accountability’s reach?" Jill Burcum writes.

"Does the United States now have a federal immigration force that can kill Americans in front of the public yet operates beyond accountability’s reach?" columnist Jill Burcum writes.

Burcum: Two deaths. Zero accountability. "Does the United States now have a federal immigration force that can kill Americans in front of the public yet operates beyond accountability’s reach?" Jill Burcum writes.

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Unless you're at Marty's in NE. They literally always have a line!

Adwan: Young workers have it hard. Why don’t they get any tax breaks? Federal income support is often reserved for families with kids, leaving many low-income young adults to fall through the cracks, Noor Adwan writes.

The nice thing about working in Opinion is you can advocate for groups of people you were part of not long ago.

When I was a student working three-ish part time jobs at once, I would have benefited greatly from an expanded Earned Income Tax Credit.

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I had gone to the local ER, expecting a run-of-the-mill gallbladder removal that would have me back at work by Monday. Instead, they shipped me down to the big regional hospital in Fargo, North Dakota, where an MRI showed a gallstone, yes, but also a 9.5-centimeter tumor wrapped tightly around the main bile duct and several major blood vessels in the liver. The gastrointestinal specialist was in the room with my wife and me when the radiology report came back. I watched his face drop and his entire demeanor change as he read through it for the first time. He was an affable guy roughly the same age as me. “We just don’t see this in guys our age,” he said. I was diagnosed with cholangiocarcinoma, or cancer of the bile duct. As far as cancers go, it’s an especially brutal one: The five-year survival rate is around 10 percent, and most people diagnosed with it are dead within a year. That was going to be me. Cholangiocarcinoma is deadly in large part because it is so rare: There are only about 8,000 new cases in the U.S. each year. Cancer treatment advances patient by patient, clinical trial by clinical trial. Each patient is a new data point. When there are few data points, the science advances very slowly. “There are some chemo and radiation therapies that can slow it down a little bit, maybe buy you some extra time, but nothing that can kill it,” the GI doc explained. “The only way to cure it is to cut it out completely, either by surgically resecting the liver or doing a full-on transplant, but by the time most people are showing symptoms, it’s too late for either of those.” “Is it too late for me?” I asked. “I don’t know,” he said.

For Slate, I wrote about what it's like to get a terminal cancer diagnosis when you're 42. slate.com/life/2026/03...

Opinion | Does our testimony about our daughter’s death even matter? Our daughter, Harper Moyski, was killed at Annunciation. But recounting our personal tragedy has done little so far to sway legislators who have already made up their minds on guns, the authors write.

From Opinion:

Our daughter, Harper Moyski, was killed at Annunciation. But recounting our personal tragedy has done little so far to sway legislators who have already made up their minds on guns, the authors write.

The 18% figure is for women. "Among women, 18% of gen Z and 6% of baby boomers agreed."

What? From the study, "31% of Gen Z men agree that a wife should always obey her husband."

31% is a minority, but I wouldn't call it "tiny."

Perry: When is it OK to compare aspects of what’s happening in Minnesota to Nazi Germany? Gov. Tim Walz has made some such analogies in relation to ICE and has been criticized for it, David M. Perry writes.

Historical analogies are arguments. So when someone makes an analogy between today and the Holocaust, or today and anything, think about they are really arguing for. What is the analogy trying to get you to do?

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Columbia Heights school leaders speak out after ICE detains kids ICE agents have detained students on their way to and from school and also tried to get onto school property, the Columbia Heights superintendent said in an emotional news conference Wednesday.

You're not ready for this lede.

Nothing but respect for photojournalists. They always head straight into it. Truly some of the bravest among us.

Editorial | Minnesota is under siege, and it cannot stand "What we are witnessing is the storming of the state by the federal government," the Editorial Board writes.

"What we are witnessing is the storming of the state by the federal government," the Editorial Board writes.

Opinion | Filming ICE isn’t radical — it’s necessary Some might say we’re extremists or agitators, Jennifer Manthey writes. I say we’re in community.

Some might say we’re extremists or agitators, Jennifer Manthey writes. I say we’re in community.

In the car with the Minneapolis community patrols working to disrupt ICE operations • Minnesota Reformer As Elle Neubauer drove before dawn past the darkened windows of the immigrant-owned businesses on Lake Street in Minneapolis, her co-pilot and friend Patty O’Keefe scanned the passing vehicles with bi...

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Live: ICE agent shoots, kills woman in Minneapolis Local law enforcement flooded the scene in south Minneapolis following the shooting around 9:30 a.m.

Live updates: This is not the first time federal agents have shot someone in recent months during immigration enforcement. The news outlet The Trace counted 14 shootings since late July.

Perry: The return of the r-word "These days, the r-word slur has become a staple of the American right wing, uttered with few professional or social consequences," David M. Perry writes.

"These days, the r-word slur has become a staple of the American right wing, uttered with few professional or social consequences," David M. Perry writes.

Readers Write: ICE arrested my friend, a U.S. citizen. This isn’t normal. Letters on immigration enforcement, electronic waste and David Lynch.

It took hours and pressure from local officials before David Leussler's friend was found and released from ICE detention.

"But it will take pressure from those that believe in free speech, and the rule of law, before the release of our beloved country," Leussler writes.

Counterpoint | Minnesota’s prison labor programs amount to modern-day slavery "For more than three decades, I put in my eight hours per day but couldn’t buy birthday presents for my kids," writes Derrick Dukes.

"For more than three decades, I put in my eight hours per day but couldn’t buy birthday presents for my kids," writes Derrick Dukes.

Let’s talk about AI art.

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photo of Google News search results for Amazon Prime Day (the second this year)

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

Editorial | Diminishing Hortman’s death feeds a lie: The left owns political violence "Sweeping Hortman’s death under the rug helps justify the Trump administration’s just-announced initiative to target liberal groups and monitor speech in the wake of Kirk’s death," the Editorial Board writes.

"Fox host Greg Gutfeld cast decency aside with a profane rant minimizing Melissa Hortman's assassination. But he isn’t alone," writes the Editorial Board.

Burcum: Minnesota pork caught in Trump’s trade war crosshairs This is the second in Jill Burcum's four-part series of columns about the impact of Trump administration trade policy on agriculture, with a focus on one particular Minnesota farm family, the Johnsons...

Gift link: The second installment of A Season of Uncertainty, a series that follows a Minnesota farm family through historic trade and tariff upheaval. www.startribune.com/china-tariff...

Opinion | I’m just 16, and already have countless memories of mass shootings "I think how easy it must be to pray when your students are not the ones facing gunfire amid their morning mass," high school junior Lydia Ganser writes.

I’ve known the author of this op-ed since the day she was born. It’s so awful that she had to write this, that she has to keep living through this.

But is it good???

as someone who danced competitively my entire childhood and teen years, boys have.... always been dancers. the outrage is so performative

Adwan: Trans panic zealots are following girls into the bathroom now, I guess "This mass hysteria over young adults’ body parts is perverted," Noor Adwan writes.

"[Gerika] Mudra’s experience — and the transphobic microaggressions or even outright assaults others have been put through — represent years of hateful rhetoric reaching their natural conclusion. We must do better," writes Opinion audience editor Noor Adwan.

Adwan: Trans panic zealots are following girls into the bathroom now, I guess "This mass hysteria over young adults’ body parts is perverted," Noor Adwan writes.

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