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2 weeks ago | 
startribune.com | David Banks
By David Banks Opinion editor's note: Strib Voices publishes a mix of commentary online and in print each day. To contribute, click here. The alphabetic arms of federal law enforcement threw a raid last week in Minneapolis, and almost everyone came out looking bad. This even though almost everyone was at least a little right. Perhaps I'll look bad for trying to keep a critical but open mind. Let's start with what we knew as of the workweek's end.
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1 month ago | 
startribune.com | David Banks
Opinion editor's note: Strib Voices publishes a mix of commentary online and in print each day. To contribute, click here. Habemus papam. We have a pope. For now we'll set aside the fact that auto-correct wants to change that Latin phrase to "haberdashery." I don't mention this only for a cheap chuckle.
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2 months ago | 
startribune.com | David Banks
Opinion editor's note: Strib Voices publishes a mix of commentary online and in print each day. To contribute, click here. As the Trump administration pursues a scorched-earth approach to immigration enforcement, it's a be-careful-what-you-wish-for message to voters - unless they're without empathy or concern for government transparency, or are uninterested in living in a nation where people can coexist in relative stability.
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2 months ago | 
startribune.com | David Banks
By David Banks The president is attempting to diversify the nation's reserves by positioning a portion of them speculatively. As always, if you were going to take such a risk, you might prefer not to partner with the Bank of Trump. The news last week that the president's relatively new family crypto business is launching a so-called stablecoin represents a further sinking of conflict-of-interest claws into the endeavor.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
startribune.com | David Banks
A summary of reader responses to — and further thoughts about — a column that connected. January 23, 2025 at 11:31PMWe received dozens of responses to David Banks' Jan. 12 column from those on the customer side. Now we'd like to invite those on the corporate side of things to weigh in. (VICTOR J. BLUE/The New York Times)Opinion editor’s note: Strib Voices publishes a mix of commentary online and in print each day. To contribute, click here. In my Jan.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
startribune.com | David Banks
I didn't really object to the cap on the deduction. I just minded being told I was getting a tax cut when I wasn't. The cap expires this year and has become a bargaining chip in the broader discussion over extending the 2017 legislation, other aspects of which also are scheduled to sunset in 2025. Some in Congress - including Republicans - want to raise the cap, and Trump is game.
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
worcestersucks.email | Clayton Aldern |Gregg Colburn |David Banks |Frantz Fanon
What’s up my merry pranksters!The writing prompt I assigned myself for this year’s ‘in review’ was one month, one paragraph. The year in 12 grafs. I enjoyed the exercise. Behind each sentence you’re about to read is thousands upon thousands of words, hours of work. Interviews, background conversations, five hour stretches on council livestreams, digging through records, submitting FOIAs, reading every stupid thing every stupid person puts on the internet in this city.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
startribune.com | David Banks
Beyond the frustration over health care elevated by a CEO’s shooting, of all things, is the breakdown of that basic social contract. January 11, 2025 at 11:31PM"The main frustration in health care insurance may be with costs and coverage denials, but those concerns are exacerbated when a client has no reasonable recourse," David Banks writes.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
startribune.com | David Banks
Such as “there but for the grace of God” and “change is the only constant.”January 10, 2025 at 11:31PMA stop sign lays amid the rubble of a destroyed bank after a tornado struck the small town of Hartland, Minn., Dec. 15, 2021. (David Joles/The Minnesota Star Tribune)Opinion editor’s note: Strib Voices publishes a mix of commentary online and in print each day. To contribute, click here.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
startribune.com | David Banks
Competition is good; separation is not. November 22, 2024 at 11:31PMA flock of northern bald ibis at flight in Beuren Am Reid, Germany, Aug. 14, 2023. Nina Riggio/The New York Times (NINA RIGGIO/The New York Times)Opinion editor’s note: Strib Voices publishes a mix of commentary online and in print each day. To contribute, click here. I created a Twitter account on June 24, 2011. Between then and when Elon Musk acquired the service and later changed the name to X, I tweeted exactly zero times.
