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"So loud is the growing buzz around Secretary of State Steve Simon that he's likely the front-runner in a race that he has not entered and does not yet exist," Rochelle Olson writes.

"With the rising price of land, feed, insurance, veterinary and farrier care, and with the increasing shortage of farm workers, what happens to the dear camp horses?" Karin Winegar asks.

"This is a dangerous and familiar move in American history: taking the violence of one individual and weaponizing it against an entire community," Ka Vang writes.

"In the days after a mass shooting in Minnesota we can put our failure to do something about these killings at the door of the entire GOP legislative caucus," Paul John Scott writes.

It's Labor Day weekend. Are we working hard enough to prevent gun violence?

"If we can step beyond these exhausted debates, there remain interventions supported by evidence, constitutionally sound and capable of uniting broad constituencies," Rob Doar writes.

"I do not know the desperation of parents and caregivers rushing to pick up children after a mass shooting. But their desperation is not altogether unfamiliar in a world where we treat kids as collateral damage," Angela Denker writes.

Those condemning Robin Westman's mother should realize some things are just out of parents' hands.

Jill Burcum covered both of those tragedies, and the memories of those victims made Wednesday's tragedy at Annunciation even more painful.