Readers Write: The risks of simple investing, Minneapolis charter, fighting, teaching during a pandemic, Alzheimer s disease Can you really be a Couch Potato ? February 15, 2021 6:00pm Text size Copy shortlink:
The Couch Potato low-cost portfolio described by Scott Burns ( How simple can pay off, Jan. 27) concludes that you can do nothing and everything will work out. He does not disclose what the investments were or exactly how the calculations were done. The conclusions may lead a reader to act on this to her detriment.
Using his assumptions, I recalculated the 20-year performance results of the 10 largest stock mutual funds as of 2000. Included are both actively and passively managed funds. These are likely to be the most widely used fund investments. Performance is from Morningstar and Yahoo Finance. Burns appears to increase the withdrawals by the rate of inflation. His average withdrawal was $6,397 p
Seeking a stronger, more efficient Minneapolis City Hall Charter Commission deserves support as it considers a ballot question on mayor-council authority.
By EDITORIAL BOARD, Star Tribune February 11, 2021 5:31pm Text size Copy shortlink:
A group of Minneapolis Charter Commission members is wisely reopening discussion about changing the city s overly complicated method of governance. As a result of the ongoing debate about defunding or eliminating the Minneapolis Police Department, the commission is considering limiting the City Council s authority over daily department operations.
Their effort resurrects an issue that has been raised repeatedly during the past two decades and not only for MPD. The proposed change merits further public discussion; Minneapolis needs a less diffuse, more efficient governance system.
Readers Write: Impeachment, climate-friendly farming, former President Barack Obama, the late John Borger Consider the facts, senators. Text size Copy shortlink:
A Dec. 17 letter writer pointed to supposed hypocrisy by Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer in calling for a Senate trial with all the facts considered fully and fairly and claimed House Democrats voted to impeach President Donald Trump without sufficient evidence because witnesses were only those approved by Democratic committee chair Rep. Adam Schiff ( It will stain Trump s legacy for good ). Wow.
That ignores that Trump himself directed multiple witnesses to ignore House subpoenas, which is sufficient evidence for the first article of impeachment, obstruction of Congress.
November 23, 2019 12:35pm
BOUNDARY WATERS CANOE AREA WILDERNESS, Minn.
David Meyer’s parents took him to northeastern Minnesota’s canoe country in the 1970s. This year, it was his turn to introduce his daughter, Theresa, 9, and his wife, Molly, to the quiet forests and shimmering web of waterways that had made such a lasting impression on him.
Two portages and some easy paddling brought the Roseville family’s canoe to North Hegman Lake’s pictographs. The July sunlight’s gilding of the pines and water captivated Molly. Theresa gazed at the red wildlife renderings left by an ancient artist on the lake’s steep rock walls. While no one knows why they’re there, Theresa had an idea. “The moose one might have been communicating something to other people who came back here, that these are good moose hunting grounds. I think that might be what it says.’’