Our View: Court reform finds an unexpected ally
St. Louis County Attorney Mark Rubin: We shouldn’t need the laws; we already have an ethical responsibility. . I realize there are flaws in the system. Our duty is to do justice, not just to convict. And if we convict an innocent person, we have not done justice.”
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News Tribune Editorial Board | 11:00 am, Feb. 2, 2021 ×
Though not often, it does happen: a suspect in jail awaiting trial comes forward claiming another inmate confessed or shared damning information and asks what sort of consideration he can get on his own case in exchange for the information; and then, when the deal is made and the cellmate is convicted, it’s later learned the information was bogus and someone innocent was found guilty.
Guest Editorial: Leaders need to step up against Big Tobacco
With ClearWay on the way out, there’s concern Big Tobacco could win the upper hand. But the Minnesota Department of Health is more than ready to take the lead.
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Duluth News Tribune Editorial Board | 1:30 pm, Jan. 29, 2021 ×
Editor s note: The following editorial appeared in the Duluth News Tribune of the Forum Communication Company, which also includes the Echo Press. It was written by the News Tribune s Editorial Board.
Using Big Tobacco’s own money against the industry, the stop-smoking group ClearWay Minnesota was created in 1998. Fueled with a slice of the $6.1 billion the tobacco industry paid the state to settle a suit claiming it deceived Minnesotans about the harmful nature of its products, ClearWay, for more than 20 years, has been a leader in the fight against deadly, cancer-causing tobacco products and against unscrupulous tobacco-industry marketing, including to vuln
From the editorial: DFLers and Minnesota Republicans alike share the challenge.
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News Tribune Editorial Board | 11:00 am, Jan. 28, 2021 ×
A reliable internet connection has never been as critical as during the past 10 months or so with COVID-19 forcing hundreds of thousands of Minnesotans to work and attend school from home, all of them accessing the web, tapping away at their keyboards, streaming content, and sending and receiving messages.
Broadband has kept us connected and has kept our economy and lives at least limping along until the pandemic can give way to a return to something resembling normalcy.
So Minnesotans can greet this news from St. Paul during these first days of legislative session with optimism: Lawmakers are working on continued funding to keep pushing internet access deeper into the state’s rural reaches and to keep improving connection speeds everywhere.
Our View: Big Tobacco hits another low with response to Black Lives Matter protests
From the editorial: Continued unscrupulous behavior from Big Tobacco really shouldn t have been seen as unexpected during a flashpoint moment like the one last summer. But tobacco manufacturers actually may have inadvertently drawn more attention to their tactics and unsavory aims.
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News Tribune Editorial Board | 10:00 am, Jan. 27, 2021 ×
For decades now, Big Tobacco has been called out and criticized, justifiably so, for targeting and preying on communities of color, low-income communities, and other vulnerable populations even children with products they knew were addictive and also knew were deadly.