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"While plenty of other cities have places people can fish, the Twin Cities stand out because of the sheer number of available bodies of water," contributing opinion columnist Maggie Koerth writes.

From columnist Jill Burcum: Will any of us ever respond to a middle-of-night door knock the same way again, after what happened to Melissa and Mark Hortman and John and Yvette Hoffman? Probably not.

There's more at stake than just birthright status.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court abortion decision "signals that while democracy is on life support, it isn't quite dead -- regardless of how much King Trump, crown crooked, hands on the plug, is ready to yank it," contributing opinion columnist Ka Vang . ...

Target is backtracking on DEI. Good.

"With their blind willingness to concentrate power in the president while generating massive deficits that will topple our economy," Republicans are no longer conservative, former Gov. Arne Carlson writes.

Maybe a little like this -- according to more than three-fourths of American adults, anyway, writes Eric Ringham.

"The tariff represents a double insult to consumers, assaulting both our taste buds and our pocketbooks," author William Alexander writes.

"There's a reason why generations of Black families have passed down warnings about water," attorney Haley Taylor Schlitz writes. "That fear isn't superstition; it's survival."

Keep the "suckers" and "losers" in mind today.