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"I suspect one reason we haven't heard more detail from Walz and DFL leadership on what they'll propose is because gun regulation is likely something about which their members in vulnerable rural districts have qualms," Jill Burcum writes.

"In recovery, the first step is admitting we have a problem," Mounds View Mayor Zach Lindstrom writes.

The threat of jail time doesn't scare suicidal shooters.

"These solutions are not in competition. They are pieces of the same puzzle," law enforcement leaders write.

Two teachers share why some of their students participated in school walkouts for gun reform after the Annunciation Catholic Church shooting in Minneapolis.

"A new supply of North American helium could be a big deal," Aaron Brown writes.

"Ironically, any elitism that Republicans charge public radio with is a result of their own attacks on the system," Laura Garbes writes.

"If politicians truly cared about autonomy, expression and ingenuity as they claim, the defunding of PBS would be a much more mainstream issue," college junior Emma Souza writes.

Florida rejects residents' safety.

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.