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WILLIAMS: Walz, Omar and the billion-dollar Minnesota fraud scandal

Minnesota is now facing one of the largest documented government service fraud scandals in United States history. Under Gov. Tim Walz's evidently unwatchful eye, federal prosecutors have estimated that approximately $1 billion in taxpayer funds have been siphoned from multiple state- and ...

Guest opinion: In defense of the Dignity Index

Scholars estimate that the 1994 Rwandan genocide resulted in the murder of between 800,000 and 1 million ethnic Tutsis and the rape of between a quarter and a half million women. One aspect of this horrific event worth noting is the use of the term “Inyenzi” (cockroach) by extremist Hutus ...

Guest opinion: The importance of a free press

In 1800, the United States — then a young nation of just over five million people — supported roughly 200 newspapers. That same year, London, the cultural and intellectual center of Britain with a population of one million, had only four, proportionally just one-tenth of the American total. ...