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Greg Peterson, the internet's 'Machinery Pete,' tracks changes in the farm equipment market.

"Medicaid is the nation's long-term care payment work horse," columnist Jill Burcum writes. "Pulling this much money out of a program is a concern when it is already struggling at current levels of funding to meet the needs of all those it serves."

"Minnesotans have tragic recent evidence that 'assassination culture' is not just a province of the moralistic left," political science professor Steven Schier writes.

"We stood as one wet mass of humanity waiting our turn for a once-in-a-lifetime experience," Aaron Brown writes. That experience? Seeing the corpse flower, "a gigantic smelly plant that blooms rarely and only for a few days."

"Though often cloaked in a language of neutrality and humility, the conservative majority's actions," Kate Shaw writes, "speak more clearly than its rhetoric about the court's conception of its own role, which is neither neutral nor humble."

"Like Trump and too many of the GOP (DFLers, too; all of us, actually), Chalberg tilts, obfuscates, buries, ignores, changes facts and history to suit his political perspective," Ray Anschel writes.

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The Senate majority leader says Minnesota can't ignore the shooter's intentions in targeting legislators, Rochelle Olson writes.

The Northstar commuter line is a failure, Robin Washington writes, and Metro Transit is to blame.