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I so appreciate you making the connection! They are settling in wonderfully - I’m very proud of them!
December 7, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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I think he was finally pushed over the edge by the letter someone else wrote last week. Battling it out on the letters page, which I’m not sure whether the news editors read—but they should read this one. Especially Deena Winter.
In a letter to the editor on Tuesday, a reader proposes that "the extreme left of Minneapolis" — presumably meaning the leading challenger to Mayor Jacob Frey, the majority of the City Council and all their supporters — no longer be labeled as "progressives" but only as "socialists," which is said to be "concise and accurate" ("Socialists and progressives. That's all"). I have a companion proposal. Since the concise and accurate definition of socialism is when some social good or service is owned publicly and operated for the good of all rather than owned privately for profit (e.g., our public schools, libraries, roads, bridges, parks, and police and fire departments), l'd like to propose that every time a candidate or commentator raises an alarm about "socialism," they be required to say, in the same breath, precisely which public goods or services they are demanding be kept in, or returned to, private, for-profit hands rather than being owned by, and run for the benefit of, the public in general. Otherwise one might easily conclude that the purpose of throwing the word "socialism" around is mere scaremonger-ing, not honest debate. JASON MCGRATH, Minneapolis
September 6, 2025 at 3:01 PM