Editorial: Feds get 'social'

Are you on Facebook yet? Or Twitter, or some another social networking site? Everyone’s doing it — even the federal government.

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Column: Hard to speak the truth

MIAMI — Three little words. That’s what keeps bringing us back to this intersection of low comedy and pathos. Three words, none longer than three letters — and yet, some of us still find them nearly impossible to say. Three words: I am gay.

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Column: Sneak and sprint

WASHINGTON — As Democrats consider shoving health care reform through the House with a process known as “deem and pass,” it is helpful to return to square one and ask: What, again, is the rush?

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Column: Help curb Sallie Mae's sugar addiction

AUSTIN, Texas — Sallie Mae isn’t one of those girls who’re made of “sugar and spice and everything nice.” Well, she is filled with sugar, but it comes from you and me, thanks to a longtime sweetheart deal she has from the federal government.

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Column: Are you ready for a tax increase?

ST. PAUL — Just one month after the start of the 2010 legislative session, Sen. Tom Bakk, DFL-Cook, chair of the Senate Tax Committee, proposed a whopping new tax increase — a sales tax on all clothing.

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Column: Private in New Jersey

WASHINGTON — New Jersey’s new Republican governor, Chris Christie, is creating a commission that will recommend what state government functions could be done better — and cheaper — by the private sector.

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As others see it: Health care innovation pushes on

Amidst the trepidation taxpayers seem to have with regard to health care reform at the state and federal level, there’s a quietly developing movement to make health care more efficient and effective.

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Column: The next, best reason for sex offender house

FARGO, N.D. — The notice from Fargo Police seemed straightforward enough: James William Thompson Jr., a high-risk sex offender, was moving from one Fargo address to another.

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Editorial: Taking time for Sunshine Week

After seemingly endless cloud cover, fog and flat-out dreariness, it’s finally time for Sunshine Week.

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Column: 'Jihad Jane' shatters terror stereotype

MIAMI — It has no particular religion nor creed, nor style of dress, nor gender nor geographic home. Evil is an equal opportunity employer.

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Letter: Bill would assist struggling veterans and their families

To recognize the need to protect those who risked their lives to protect us, I’m sponsoring legislation that would assist Minnesota veterans and their families who are homeless or are in danger of losing their home.

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Letter: Immigration enforcement would help ease unemployment

President Obama keeps saying that he wants to do something for the 15 million Americans who are out of work. But two obvious solutions he totally ignores are enforcing our immigration laws and cutting immigration

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Column: The big Down Under is small back home

SYDNEY, Australia — Tell me if you’ve heard this one. A blonde swimsuit model gets involved with a sports superstar.

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As others see it: Bipartisanship, at last

The most contentious election in Minnesota in nearly a half-century has produced a bipartisan consensus, of all things.

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Column: Saving the world, one woman at a time

WASHINGTON — If your impression of an Afghan woman is of a shapeless, frightened form engulfed in yards of heat-trapping fabric, you haven’t met Shafiqa Quraishi.

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