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OPINION EXCHANGE | Ryan Winkler: Skeptics like Dean Phillips should count on Joe Biden
Opinion editor's note: Star Tribune Opinion publishes a mix of national and local commentaries online and in print each day. To contribute, click here. ••• Political insiders like U.S. Rep. Dean Phillips have been expressing doubts about Joe Biden for years. Yet Biden just keeps winning. Voters have elected him to national office three times in four elections. Those voters also gave him the biggest midterm win for a Democratic president in 60 years.
OPINION EXCHANGE | Minnesota's legalization of marijuana will be the nation's best
Opinion editor's note: Star Tribune Opinion publishes a mix of national and local commentaries online and in print each day. To contribute, click here. ••• When I started working on a bill in 2019 to legalize cannabis for adult use, Minnesota was not ready for that idea to become law. Proposals were confused and contradictory.
OPINION EXCHANGE | Hennepin County attorney candidate Ryan Winkler: We're only safer together
Opinion editor's note: Star Tribune Opinion publishes a mix of national and local commentaries online and in print each day. To contribute, click here. ••• Rising crime is touching too many lives in Hennepin County. The message I've heard is loud and clear: People deserve and demand to be safe. It's not surprising so many feel this way. Gun violence is up, the murder rate is at a 20-year high, and carjackings are an everyday occurrence in many neighborhoods in Minneapolis and some suburban cities.
Restoring trust in our public safety system is going to take a collaborative effort
I am honored to have the opportunity to share my thoughts in this publication that has been such a pillar in the Minneapolis community. If we have not had an opportunity to meet each other, I’d like to share a bit about why I’m writing here. I’m running to be the next Hennepin County Attorney. People in our communities deserve to feel safe in their homes and neighborhoods, regardless of what part of Hennepin County they reside in.
OPINION EXCHANGE | Corridors: The opportunity on Lake Street. And Midway. And Broadway.
“We can make this the renaissance of Lake Street.” Those are the words of Eduardo Barrera, general manager of Mercado Central, a bustling Latino marketplace of 35 small businesses that opened its doors in 1997. Envisioned as a resource to build economic power and promote economic opportunity, Mercado Central is one of 1,500 businesses that sustained property damage after the death of George Floyd in police custody.
House Majority Leader Ryan Winkler: Marijuana prohibition has failed.
Can anyone provide a solid argument for maintaining the current regime of criminalizing cannabis? I have been all over the state looking for one, and have not yet found it. Yes, I have heard concerns. Cautions. Nervousness. But I have not heard a well-considered argument for continuing our current failed policy. Cannabis consumption is already commonplace in Minnesota.
OPINION EXCHANGE | Ryan Winkler: It's Minnesota's turn to legalize marijuana use
Marijuana legalization is underway in the United States. Minnesota cannot avoid this reality and should not hide from the inevitable. Instead, we should recognize the harms potentially caused by criminalizing marijuana (or cannabis), and should work to create nation-leading legislation for legalizing, regulating and taxing cannabis for responsible adult use. We need to get this right. And we need to get going.
OPINION EXCHANGE | Our budget vision: Honest investments in what we value
At the heart of the debates at the Capitol this legislative session are two competing visions for the future of Minnesota. DFLers who control the House have passed our full Minnesota Values Budget, offering our vision of a Minnesota that works better for all of us.
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