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Numbers can say a lot. Minnesota families have adopted 12,500 children from the state's foster care system in the past 20 years. With more children in our system in 2016, families adopted more foster children — 868 — than any other year over the last two decades. Adoption...

Recently, a series of editorials attacking provisions in the Omnibus Legacy Funding Bill, the House Omnibus Tax Bill and other pending legislation, as anti-environment and anti-Legacy Amendment, have appeared in newspapers across the state. At least one media personality has blasted...

Viewpoint Earlier this month, when we heard the news that a highly pathogenic strain of avian influenza had been detected in chickens in Tennessee and then last week that a less pathogenic strain had been detected in Wisconsin, my mind immediately turned to the devastation Minnesota's...

The beautiful Mississippi River valley in southeastern Minnesota is a bustling transportation corridor. Thousands of cars and trucks, dozens of trains, and (in summertime) many barges are moving people and goods daily through the region. The Minnesota High-Speed Rail Commission is...

It's not your imagination. Even with the recent weather, Minnesota winters just aren't what they used to be. Society's collective use of dirty energy has warmed Minnesota winters an average of almost 6 degrees since 1970, which effectively makes Minnesota's winters shorter and less...

Congressman Jason Lewis, President Donald Trump's executive ban on immigration is unlawful, immoral and betrays our values. I am writing today to ask that you please join the number of concerned Minnesotans raising their voices in opposition to it.

The birds have mostly flown south, the butterflies are cocooned until spring, and the turtles have settled in for a long winter nap. But for the biologists who work with these species, December is a busy time of analyzing research data, writing reports and getting ready for next year's...

Viewpoint Those of us who regarded Donald Trump's election as an unmitigated disaster could only hope that his campaign histrionics would give way to a reality in which he did as he stated he would: surrounded himself with the best and brightest advisers he could.