Letter: People need more context on news from Minnesota

Letter: People need more context on news from Minnesota

What’s going down in Minnesota has been front and center in the news. Print and broadcast media outlets have given the stories a mostly liberal spin. It’s time to take a step back and look at this with some good old common sense. How did we get here? • A president ago, the country basically threw open its borders. People started pouring in — lots of them not following the rules. Let’s be real: It wasn’t a bunch of doctors, lawyers or scientists …

Letter From Minnesota: We’ve Been Here Before

It’s no secret that Minneapolis has historically forced national reckonings on racial injustice and policing. The murder of Fong Lee in 2006, the killing of Jamar Clark in 2015 and Philando Castile the following year in 2016 and, of course, the 2020 lynching of George Floyd all sparked widespread unrest here in Minneapolis and across the country, and even in other parts of the world. And now, five years later, here we are again but on a much lar…