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"Moriarty has, on occasion, taken needlessly combative stances -- even with allies. She's been quick to personalize criticism and critiques despite the inherently controversial nature of her post," columnist Rochelle Olson writes.

From Brenda J. Child: A tribute to service dogs, like Gilbert, and to John Sinykin, the Minnesota man who started the first school in the U.S. to train them.

The Orr, Minn., man died in a fire in February, along with the dogs he raised. A veteran, he'd said previously that the dogs were part of his healing process. He, and one of the dogs, were also that for me, Caroline Giuffra writes.

Motorists aren't the only ones who have it bad during Minnesota's second season.

In a Q&A with columnist Jill Burcum, the Minnesota senator says she supports war powers initiatives by Sens. Bernie Sanders and Tim Kaine after the U.S. aided Israel in its war with Iran.

From Opinion: Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, will lie in state from noon to 5 p.m. Friday at the Minnesota State Capitol Rotunda. Minnesota Poet Laureate Gwen Westerman wrote a poem to capture the feelings created by the ...

"We have allowed the two parties to create a duopoly, one that feels entitled to its voters and divides the country into blue and red," Tom Horner writes. "This noncompetitive environment is the catalyst for our political anger."

"If we want to de-escalate the broader climate," Majority in the Middle founder Shannon Watson writes, we "have to wrestle with how we respond when people get it wrong. Really wrong."

"Rather than retreat from danger himself," columnist Rochelle Olson writes, Troy Young "jumped in his truck and headed north on Morgan Avenue toward the scene where he found a boy, later identified as Amir Atkins, who was fatally shot while in ...

Star Tribune/Minnesota Poll results reveal a general displeasure with the present instability of our country.