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TOP NEWS U.S.: RUSSIA Financial HAD DRONE Road salt is pickling lakes hit for AT ATTACK Twin Cities lakes among saltiest in nation; 3 9 349,000 Moscow knew in T win Cities-area lakes that Tons of salt de-icer applied to road agencies, homeowners both at fault. are already polluted by salt. Twin Cities area roads each year. advance about the ex-Wells chemical weapons By JOSEPHINE MARCOTTY The lakes were included of chloride even with just 1 Dugan, the lead researcher and strike in Syria, U.S. S tar Tribune in the first study of freshwa- percent impervious land cover a limnologist at the University sources say. A3 ter chloride contamination around their perimeters. of Wisconsin, Madison. “The leaders Many lakes around the Twin across the northern region of The Twin Cities turned out smaller the lake, the more eas- Cities are becoming so salty the country, an area that has to be among the saltiest. ily you load it with salt.” $75M clawback in addition from winter road maintenance one of the highest d ensities of “One of the most impacted Altogether, researchers that within three decades they lakes on Earth. The research- areas is Minneapolis and St. analyzed the salt histories of to $60M in canceled stock. will no longer support native ers found that lakes showed Paul, where you have dozens 371 lakes in 10 northern states By JAMES RUFUS KOREN fish and plants. steadily rising concentrations of small lakes,” said Hilary See SALT on A8 Ø Los Angeles Times

In a long-anticipated report released Monday, Wells Fargo Governor of & Co. pinned the blame for its Alabama quits unauthorized-accounts scandal To avoid impeach- on weak corporate oversight, ment, he pleads an unwatchful former CEO guilty to affair- and the executive who led the related charges. A2 Gorsuch sworn in as bank’s community banking division. Post wins prize The San Francisco bank with for Trump news a large presence in Minnesota Pulitzer awarded said it would for reports of lewd take back more remarks, charity Supreme Court justice than $47 million investigation. A2 in pay from the former Com- Le Pen denies munity Banking Holocaust role executive, Carrie French candidate Tolstedt, and $28 Stumpf says nation can’t million from ex- be blamed. A4 Chief Executive John Stumpf, a native of Pierz, Minn. Those new clawbacks are in addition to the bank’s move last LOCAL NEWS year to cancel about $41 million Illegal Latinos in stock awards for Stumpf and stay off radar $19 million for Tolstedt. Fearing a deporta- The bank’s total clawbacks tion crackdown, are among the largest in U.S. many fading into c orporate history. the shadows. B1 The report was commis- sioned by the bank’s board No charges yet last year and prepared by the in triple killing Shearman & Sterling law firm. Ramsey County It alleged that Tolstedt not sends case back only failed to see the potential to police for more harm caused by unauthorized investigation. B1 account openings and other unethical sales practices — but More support that she tried to keep informa- for $15 wage tion about those practices away Three on council from the board and o thers at back mayor’s push See WELLS on A8 Ø to include tipped workers. B1 Lee Schafer: Wells Fargo CEO didn’t take “run it like you own it” mantra to heart. D1 SPORTS For Boudreaus, it’s no contest AL DRAGO • New York Times Chef-wife Crystal Neil Gorsuch hugged his wife, Marie Louise Gorsuch, after he was sworn in by Justice Anthony Kennedy on Monday. passed harder test : Wesley So teaching Scoggins Taking over Scalia’s seat, Gorsuch vowed to defend Constitution to cook. C1 captures Vikes on road By VIVIAN SALAMA and SAM nearly 14 months after the seat was left “To the Scalia family, I won’t ever for preseason HANANEL • Associated Press vacant by the sudden death of Justice forget that the seat I inherit today is Team won’t open Antonin Scalia. The oath was admin- that of a very, very great man,” Gor- top spot in at home until third WASHINGTON – Justice Neil Gor- istered during the White House cer- such said to the audience of family and game of 2017. C2 such took his place in history Monday emony by Justice Anthony Kennedy, administration staffers, as well as all as the newest addition on the bench whom Gorsuch once served as a law the sitting Supreme Court justices. U.S. chess of the U.S. Supreme Court, restoring clerk. A smiling Trump stood behind “I will do all my powers permit to be BUSINESS a narrow conservative majority and his nominee. a faithful servant of the Constitution Minnetonka grandmaster Man dragged marking a much-needed political vic- It was the second of two oaths — and laws of this great nation,” he said. gets closer to world playoff. off airliner tory for President Donald Trump. the first was conducted privately in Gorsuch joins the court that is often Passenger refused Gorsuch was sworn in during a sun- the Justices’ Conference Room by the final arbiter for presidential policy. By DENNIS J. McGRATH to exit overbooked soaked ceremony in the Rose Garden, Chief Justice John Roberts. See GORSUCH on A4 Ø [email protected] United flight; video spurs outcry. D3 ST. LOUIS – Wesley So added the coveted title of U.S. c hess c hampion to his growing list VARIETY of international super-tour- Singer making nament victories, winning a herself at home Ellison traveling U.S. as two-game, tiebreaking playoff After stint in NYC, in heart-stopping Jonatha Brooke fashion Monday. enjoying life in the evangelist for Democrats By winning the Twin Cities. E1 national cham- In DNC role, he’s rebooting moted local Democratic can- pionship, the party from the ground up. didates in Republican strong- 23-year-old grand- HAVE YOU holds like Texas and Idaho. He’s master from Min- HEARD? By MAYA RAO also traveled to GOP-tilting netonka contin- S o In new memoir, [email protected] parts of Democratic-leaning ued to build the Prince’s ex-wife states, building case that he has the best chance gives details of her WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. relationships of any of his rivals of dethroning 11 years with the Keith Ellison of Minneapolis with activists the world champion. Minnesota music has traveled to some of the and candidates “He’s very hard to beat, very icon. A2 most reliably Republican parts as they seek ways levelheaded, very practical, and of the country in recent weeks, to drive up voter he’s growing in front of us,” said using a new national leadership turnout in areas G LEN STUBBE • [email protected] g randmaster Maurice Ashley. role to preach the message that E llison long written off “Imagine how strong he’s going Democrats shouldn’t be writing to Republicans. to be in two years.” off any political races, no matter “People experience the AN EPIDEMIC’S TOLL So has won tougher inter- how local. Democratic Party not in Wash- Family members added the boots of former national competitions than As deputy chairman of the ington, D.C., but in their local Minnesota National Guardsman Joel Costa to a the U.S. Championship — Democratic National Com- communities, so that’s where memorial at the Capitol to help raise awareness of which features America’s top mittee (DNC), Ellison has pro- See ELLISON on A8 Ø suicide among vets. Costa died in February. See CHESS on A8 Ø

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FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS Ethel Kennedy, 89 Writer Ellen Goodman, 76 Actor Joel Grey, 85 MLB’s Mark Teixeira, 37 Post awarded Pulitzer for StarTr ibune Actor Louise Lasser, 78 Singer Joss Stone, 30 • Michael J. Klingensmith, Publisher and CEO, 612-673-7576 [email protected] probe of Trump charity • Glen Taylor, Owner [email protected]

News David Fahrenthold won • Rene Sanchez, Editor and Senior Vice President 612-673-7937, [email protected] national reporting prize. • Suki Dardarian, Sr. Managing Editor and VP 612-673-4937, [email protected] By JENNIFER PELTZ and DEEPTI HAJELA • Associated Press Senior Vice Presidents • Jim Bernard, Digital 612-673-4477, [email protected] NEW YORK – The biggest • Chuck Brown, Chief Financial Offi cer 612-673-4760, [email protected] U.S. news story of 2016 — • Kevin J. Desmond, Operations the tumultuous presidential 612-673-8710, [email protected] campaign — yielded a Pulit- • Arden Dickey, Circulation zer Prize on Monday for the 612-673-4322, [email protected] • Paul J. Kasbohm, Chief Revenue Offi cer Washington Post reporter 612-673-7207, [email protected] who not only raised doubts • Randy M. Lebedoff, General Counsel ANDREW MATTHEWS • PA via Associated Press about D onald Trump’s chari- 612-673-7133, [email protected] • Adrienne Sirany, Human Resources Prince William, Duchess Kate and their children, Char- table giving but also revealed 612-673-4076, [email protected] lotte and George, on Christmas Day last year before that the candidate had been Vice Presidents services at St. Mark’s Church in Englefield, England. recorded crudely bragging DANIEL BEREHULAK • New York Times • David Diegnau, Information Technology about grabbing women. PHOTOGRAPHY: 612-673-4567, [email protected] This photo was part of the winning entry • Ray Faust, Digital Sales David Fahrenthold won by Daniel Berehulak for breaking news photography. He docu- 612-673-4899, [email protected] FACES the prize for national report- mented the Philippine president’s crackdown on drug dealers. • Jon Ochetti, Business Strategy and FP&A ing, with the judges citing his 612-673-4717, [email protected] stories about Trump’s chari- • Steve Yaeger, Chief Marketing Offi cer Little prince, princess Steve Sack is finalist in editorial cartooning 612-673-4256, [email protected] table foundation that called Editorial Pages into question whether the The Star Tribune’s Steve Sack was a finalist again for the • Scott Gillespie, Editor and Vice President are in Pippa’s wedding real estate magnate was as editorial cartooning award. 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The show is mind when our newsroom and the Miami Herald, which www.pulitzer.org set to premiere this summer. It will HOT LOTTO include other members of the Kar-ar- Kylie Saturday: 23 • 32 • 35 • 40 • 42 dashian clan and some of Jenner’s friends. Hot Ball: 12 Winner/Jackpot BILLBOARD AWARDS: Rapper Drake and EDM None; $5.39 million duo the Chainsmokers are the top contenders at the Next drawing/Jackpot Billboard Music Awards with 22 nominations each. Governor of Alabama resigns Wednesday; $5.5 million Dick Clark productions announced Monday that the GOPHER 5 performers set a record for most nominations in a MONTGOMERY, ALA. – Gov. appeared sullen a s he pleaded charged comments to 45-year- year. The 2017 awards show will air live May 21 from Robert Bentley resigned Mon- guilty to misdemeanor charges old political adviser Rebekah Monday: 4 • 6 • 7 • 23 • 47 the T- Mobile Arena in Las Vegas. day rather than face impeach- of failing to f ile a major contri- Caldwell Mason. 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TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 2017 STAR TRIBUNE • A3 NATION & WORLD THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY U.S. says Russia knew of chemical attack Moscow had a drone in Sheikhtoun, where more than have said Russians routinely to present a united front ahead place to monitor the Syria 80 people were killed. He also work with Syrians at the of Secretary of State Rex Til- didn’t provide all the details Shayrat air base where the lerson’s visit to Moscow. strike, official says. for the military and intelli- attack is supposed to have “The game has now been gence information that form originated. U.S. officials say changed and it’s important that By ROBERT BURNS the basis of what he said the the chemical weapons were message should be heard from and LOLITA C. BALDOR Pentagon has now concluded. stored there. Those elements, the Americans to the Russians,” Associated Press The allegation is grave, the senior official said, add to British Foreign Secretary Boris even by the standards of the the conclusion that Russia was Johnson said on the first of two WASHINGTON – The United currently dismal U.S.-Russian complicit in the attack. days of talks between foreign States has concluded Russia relations. Although Russia has Last Thursday, 59 Toma- ministers of the Group of Seven knew in advance of Syria’s steadfastly supported Syrian hawk missiles were fired on nations in L ucca, Italy. chemical weapons attack last President Bashar Assad’s gov- the government-controlled Tillerson will travel to Mos- week, a senior U.S. official said ernment and they’ve coordi- base in the United States’ first cow on Tuesday afternoon for Monday. nated military attacks together, direct military action against meetings with top officials. The official said a drone Washington has never pre- Assad’s forces. He will look to gauge Russia’s operated by Russians was fly- viously accused Moscow of On Monday, Col. John willingness to work together ing over a hospital as victims complicity in any attack that J. Thomas, a U.S. military to fight ISIS a nd rein in Assad. of the attack were rushing to involved the gassing of inno- spokesman, said the U.S. has Italian Foreign Minister get treatment. Hours after the cent civilians, including chil- taken extra p recautions in Angelino Alfano called a gath- drone left, a Russian-made dren. The former Cold War Syria in case of possible retali- ering on Syria for Tuesday with fighter jet bombed the hospi- foes even worked together in ation against U.S. f orces for the counterparts from Turkey, the tal in what U.S. o fficials believe 2013 to remove and destroy cruise missile attack. United Arab Emirates, Saudi was an attempt to cover up the more than 1,300 tons of Syrian Thomas said t he increased Arabia, Jordan and Qatar, an use of chemical weapons. chemical weapons and agents. emphasis t o protect U.S. troops o fficial said. Their aim is to seek The official said the pres- Until Monday, U.S. offi- i n Syria led to a te mporary a unified response for Tillerson ence of the surveillance drone cials had said they weren’t decline in offensive U.S. air- to take to Russia. over the hospital couldn’t have sure whether Russia or Syria strikes against the Islamic State Russia faces a choice between been a coincidence, and that operated the drone. The offi- in Iraq and Syria. T here has been sticking to a “toxic regime that Russia must have known the cial said the U.S. is now con- no Syrian retaliation so far for poisons its own people and chemical weapons attack was vinced Russia controlled the the U.S. a ttack, which destroyed indeed is poisoning the repu- RICCARDO DALLE LUCHE • ANSA via Associated Press coming and that victims were drone. The official said it still or damaged m ore than 20 Syrian tation of Russia,” Johnson said, ‘ REDEDICATE OURSELVES’: S ecretary of State Rex Tiller- seeking treatment. isn’t clear who was flying the air force planes, he said. or working with the rest of the son, center, paid tribute to victims of a Nazi m assacre in Sant’Anna The official, who r equested jet that bombed the hospital, T he assessment about Rus- world to f ind a political solution. di Stazzema, Italy. “We rededicate ourselves to holding to account a nonymity, didn’t give precise because the Syrians also fly sia came as Western powers any and all who commit crimes against the innocents, ” said Tiller- timing for when the drone was Russian-made aircraft. weigh new sanctions on Rus- Bloomberg News contributed to this son, who was attending the Group of Seven summit. Story , D8 above the S yrian town of Khan U.S. officials previously sia and Syria, as leaders seek report.

FIRST 100 DAYS A federal judge has ruled for a second time that Texas’ strict voter ID law was intentionally crafted to discriminate against minorities. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos of Corpus Christi on Monday comes more than two years after she likened the ballot-box rules in Texas to a “poll tax” meant to suppress minority voters. She is still holding to that conclusion after an appeals court asked her to go back and re-examine her findings. The Trump administration will move forward with the sale of high-tech aircraft to Nigeria for its campaign against Boko Haram despite concerns over abuses committed by the African nation’s security forces, according to U.S. officials. Congress is expected to receive formal notification within weeks, setting in motion a deal with Nigeria that the Obama administration had planned PAULA LOBO • ABC via Associated Press to approve at the very end of “ The View” co-hosts, from left, Whoopi Goldberg, Sunny Hostin, Joy Behar, Sara Haines and Jedediah Bila . The show has seen an increase in viewership. Barack Obama’s presidency. The deal will call for Nigeria to purchase up to 12 Embraer A-29 Super Tucano aircraft with sophisticated targeting ‘View’ hosts talk politics, and it pays off gear for nearly $600 million. T he unquenchable thirst for chatter about President Donald Trump and politics was at the lead of that because it was the most compelling Palm Beach County i s changing the dynamics of a fierce competition between two daytime conversation to be having,” McLoughlin said. commissioners are so tired of talk shows. The current climate can sometimes make “The Talk” seem frivolous. spending money on President “The View” has spent more time talking politics with the arrival of But it wouldn’t be wise to shift gears so the hosts are talking about things Trump’s frequent visits to his a new administration, stopping the momentum of its rival “The Talk,” they’re not accustomed to discussing and the audience isn’t used to hear- Mar-a-Lago resort that some which sticks to pop culture. ing, said Angelica McDaniel, head of daytime programming for CBS. are suggesting a special tax S ome saw “The Talk” as a knockoff of “The View” when it began seven “ We offer a place for viewers to come where they know they can escape be levied against the property years ago. But it became a more pleasant place to visit, to the point where the politics,” McDaniel said. “Why not come and have a respite? Why not if the federal government it regularly topped its older rival in ratings starting in May 2015. come to a place where you know your best girlfriends are and you can just doesn’t reimburse its costs. Since the beginning of this year, the average audience for “The View” laugh and have a good time for an hour every weekday?” The county spends more has increased by 1 percent over 2016 while “The Talk” is down 6 percent, McLoughlin believes that misreads what the audience wants. than $60,000 a day when the the Nielsen company said. “The View” regularly beats its rival now. “Some people watch daytime TV shows to escape,” she said. “They’re president visits, mostly for T he newsier focus of “The View” simply evolved, said Hilary Estey not interested in politics and they’re not interested in news. But we’re law enforcement overtime McLoughlin, a talk show veteran who is senior executive producer. finding more and more that they are, and that’s why we’re growing.” — nearly $2 million since “We wanted to make the show more relevant, and talk about news ASSOCIATED PRESS January. NEWS SERVICES

Scientists fear climate data gap as Trump takes aim at NASA satellites By HENRY FOUNTAIN Earth rather than space. But colleagues and myself heart NASA designed a flurry of between the agencies,” said 10 years. I ts report is expected New York Times Congress may have other palpitations as we think about instruments two decades ago, Thomas Ackerman, an atmo- this year. ideas, especially since the what might be lost,” said Betsy including about 10 that were spheric scientist at the Uni- Even if the recommenda- Among the sweeping cuts projects are not very costly. Weatherhead, an expert on launched aboard two satel- versity of Washington. tions are adopted and new in the Trump administra- The savings from eliminating environmental monitoring at lites, Terra and Aqua. Weather “The priority has been missions are funded, how- tion’s 53-page budget blue- the earth science programs, the University of Colorado. satellites have been in use for on gathering weather data,” ever, it will be years before print released last month, which include the missions, In the past, NASA has about five decades and have Weatherhead said, “because the instruments are in orbit. one paragraph stood out to cli- would total $102 million out built and operated climate become increasingly sophis- we understand the value of That, Ackerman said, will lead mate researchers. It proposed of a proposed agency budget satellites, and the National ticated. weather data.” to gaps in the kind of climate eliminating four of NASA’s of $19 billion. Oceanic and Atmospheric After a scare at the begin- That priority is reflected in measurements obtained by climate science missions, Long before President Administration has operated ning of this decade when the proposed Trump budget, current missions like Calipso including instruments to Donald Trump was elected, weather satellites. While it looked like NOAA might which eliminates the NASA and Cloudsat, which study study clouds, small airborne climate researchers have there is some overlap, weather have no functioning weather missions while also calling clouds and atmospheric par- particles, the flow of carbon warned that the nation’s cli- satellites focus on basics like satellites for a time — a poten- for full funding of NOAA’s ticles. dioxide and other elements of mate monitoring capabilities clouds, winds, temperatures tially disastrous situation — replacement orbiters. Continuous data records the a tmosphere and oceans. — which include satellites as and moisture to provide the agency now has plans and are crucial to climate The blueprint is as much well as air- and surface-based information for forecasts. funding to replace its satel- No comment from NASA researchers to improve their a political document as a fis- instruments — were less than Most of NASA’s instruments lites as required. But there are NASA officials declined models to better understand cal plan, in this case designed adequate and faced data col- are designed to provide long- few plans to replace NASA’s to comment, but an advi- how the climate is changing. to send a message that the lection gaps and other uncer- term records of phenomena instruments, many of which sory group from the National “We have learned an amaz- administration intends to tainties. Elimination of any like ice-sheet thickness, sea- are at or near the end of their Academy of Sciences is work- ing amount about our atmo- pursue a long-sought goal of of the missions would be a level rise, vegetation changes useful lives. ing on recommendations for sphere,” Ackerman said. “It’s some conservatives: to clamp f urther blow, they said. and the makeup of the “Climate monitoring new monitoring missions for a tragedy that these records down on NASA’s study of “That’s what’s giving my a tmosphere. has fallen into this big gap the space agency for the next will not be continued.” ZSW [C M Y K]A4 Tuesday, Apr. 11, 2017

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WASHINGTON, D.C. 3 dead in murder-suicide at school Maryland soldier killed in Afghanistan Teacher was killed by her Capt. Ron Maass said. nez. Authorities did not name many of them carrying glow in the bleachers near Cajon husband, who also shot The gunman was identified the b oy who was wounded. sticks they had been given to High School’s baseball dia- The Pentagon has identified as 53-year-old Cedric Ander- The 600 other students pass the time, police officers mond. the soldier who was killed two students; one died. son, of Riverside, who shot his at the school were bused to applauded and high-fived “It’s frustrating for us as over the weekend while con- wife, Elaine Smith, also 53. She safety at California State Uni- them. parents but also understand- ducting an operation against By CHRISTOPHER WEBER was a teacher in the special- versity’s San Bernardino cam- When the buses first pulled able,” Holly Penalber said of ISIS militants in Afghanistan. Associated Press needs classroom for students pus, several miles away. Tele- away, some parents ran along- the long wait, which most par- Staff Sgt. Mark De Alencar of in first through fourth grades. vision news footage showed side, waving and trying to rec- ents seemed resigned to. Edgewood, Md., 37, died Satur- SAN BERNARDINO, CALIF. – Anderson said nothing as students, escorted by police ognize their children inside. Penalber’s 9-year-old day of wounds suffered when A husband opened fire on his he began firing a large-cal- officers, walking off campus Many said their children were son and 7-year-old daughter his unit encountered enemy wife Monday in a San Ber- iber revolver, according to hand-in-hand. too young to have cellphones. attend the school. She called small-arms fire in Nangarhar nardino elementary school police. Both of the children As word of the shooting Others said the phones rang Monday’s shootings “every Province. He was assigned classroom, killing her and a who were hit were standing spread, panicked parents unanswered. parent’s worst nightmare.” to 1st Battalion, 7th Special student in a murder-suicide behind Smith. An 8-year-old raced to the school, some in Among those waiting anx- San Bernardino, a city of Forces Group (Airborne), that spread panic across a later died. The other student tears, some praying as they iously at the high school for 216,000 people about 60 miles Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. city still recovering emotion- was hospitalized in stable anxiously sought information her 9-year-old granddaugh- east of Los Angeles, was the ally from a terrorist attack at condition. about their children. They ter’s return was Alberta Ter- site of a December 2015 ter- SOUTH CAROLINA a community center just 15 The gunman had a his- were told to go to a nearby rell, who said she cried with ror attack that killed 14 people months ago. tory of weapons, domestic high school where they would relief when she was told that a and wounded 22 others at a Dylann Roof pleads The shooter also died, and violence and possible drug be reunited. family friend saw the girl get- meeting of San Bernardino guilty to state charges a second student was criti- charges that predated the Four hours later, the chil- ting onto a bus. County employees. Husband- cally wounded at North Park marriage, which lasted only a dren began to arrive at the “I was really elated. But I and-wife shooters Syed Riz- Convicted Charleston church School. few months, authorities said. high school, getting hugs won’t be truly happy until I wan Farook and Tashfeen shooter Dylann Roof pleaded “The children we do not The boy who died was from emotional parents. As see her and can give her a big Malik were later killed in a guilty to state murder charges believe were targeted,” police identified as Jonathan Marti- the students got off the buses, hug,” Terrell said as she sat gun battle with authorities. Monday, leaving him to await execution in a federal prison and sparing his victims and their families the burden of a second trial. Roof, a white supremacist, entered the guilty pleas in state court for the slayings of nine victims at Charleston’s Mother Emanuel AME Church in June 2015. Roof will now be sent to a federal prison. He was found guilty in federal court in December on hate crime charges.

ILLINOIS Judge fatally shot outside Chicago home Police say a Cook County judge shot to death outside his South Side home might have been the victim of an attempted robbery, though it didn’t appear any possessions were taken from the judge and a woman companion who was wounded. Raymond Myles, 66, an associate judge in Cook STEPHEN CROWLEY • New York Times County Circuit Court’s Crim- Front row from left, Supreme Court Justices Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, Samuel Alito, Stephen Breyer (behind pillar), Clarence Thomas and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. inal Division, was a longtime jurist who has been involved in several high-profile cases. A year and a half ago, he was beaten by another motorist Gorsuch sworn in as high court justice during a road rage incident. EGYPT ø GORSUCH from A1 option” to eliminate the federal appeals court in Den- Speaking ahead of Gorsuch 60-vote filibuster threshold ver, interpreting the Constitu- Church bombing at the ceremony, Trump said for Gorsuch and all future high tion according to the mean- victims are mourned that “our country is count- court nominees. The change ing understood by those who ing on you to be wise, impar- allowed the Senate to hold a drafted it. Mourners gathered to remem- tial and fair, to serve under final vote to approve Gorsuch Gorsuch will be seated just ber Coptic Christians killed our laws, not over them, and with a simple majority. in time to hear one of the big- in two deadly Palm Sunday to safeguard the right of the Most Democrats refused gest cases of the term: a reli- church bombings as terror- people to govern their own to support Gorsuch because gious rights dispute over a Mis- ist attacks continued in the affairs,” hinting at his own fric- they were still seething over souri law that bars churches Sinai Peninsula. Israel closed tion with the judiciary. the Republican blockade last from receiving public funds its Taba border crossing to Gorsuch’s confirmation year of Obama’s pick for the for general aid programs. those departing for Egypt was a badly needed boost same seat, Merrick Garland. The White House swear- after its anti-terrorism office for an administration rid- Senate Republicans refused ing-in ceremony was a depar- warned of an “imminent” dled with controversy and even to hold a hearing for ture from recent history. Jus- attack. At least 45 worshipers misstep. Trump failed to get Garland, saying a high court tices Sonia Sotomayor and were killed and more than enough Republicans on board replacement should be up to Elena Kagan were both sworn a hundred wounded during to support his plan to repeal the next president. in publicly at the Supreme the Palm Sunday attacks at and replace President Barack For now, Gorsuch restores Court. Former Justice John churches in Alexandria and Obama’s signature health care the court’s conservative tilt. Paul Stevens has argued that Tanta, one of the worst ter- bill. His efforts to build a phys- But the new Senate rules holding the public ceremony rorist strikes to rock Egypt in ical border wall with Mexico allowing for confirmation of at the court helps drive home recent history. remain uncertain and his AL DRAGO • New York Times a justice by a simple majority the justice s’ independence attempts to ban certain trav- President Donald Trump shook hands with Neil Gorsuch will be crucial if Trump gets from the White House. SWEDEN elers from entering the U.S. during his swearing-in ceremony in the Rose Garden. to fill another opening and A few hours after the swear- because they pose a security replace either Kennedy — ing-in ceremony, a Pennsylva- National day of threat have been blocked by often a swing vote — or one nia college honored Scalia and mourning after attack the courts. ness for the f ormer appeals 2016. In nominating Gorsuch, of the court’s liberal justices. Ginsburg with its annual award Trump was lighthearted court judge from Colorado. Trump said he fulfilled a cam- Kennedy and Justice Ruth for civility in public life. The Sweden observed a minute of about his latest win, saying Gorsuch said he was hum- paign pledge to pick someone Bader Ginsberg are both in prize from Allegheny College silence on a national day of that Gorsuch’s successful bled by his ascendance to in the mold of Scalia. their 80s, and Justice Stephen noted the enduring friendship mourning for the four people nomination came during his the nation’s high court and Gorsuch, 49, is the young- Breyer is 78, raising concern between the justices despite killed and 15 wounded in a first 100 days in office and thanked his former law clerks, est nominee since Clarence among Democrats that Trump their ideological differences. truck attack last week, while added: “You think that’s easy?” saying, “your names are etched Thomas, who was 43 when may have another opportu- In her remarks accepting the suspect’s name emerged Trump said Americans in my heart forever.” confirmed in 1991. nity to move the court in a the award, Ginsburg said col- in court papers and the U.N. would see in Gorsuch “a man Scalia had anchored the His 66-day confirmation more c onservative direction. legiality “really matters” at the Security Council condemned who is deeply faithful to the court’s conservative wing for process was swift but bitterly Gorsuch mirrored Scalia’s court and urged members of the rampage. Swedish royalty, Constitution of the United nearly three decades before he divisive. It saw Senate Repub- originalist approach to the Congress to “lead in restoring foreign diplomats and politi- States” and predicted great- died unexpectedly in February licans trigger the “nuclear law during his 11 years on the harmonious work ways.” cians were among the crowds gathered for a noon obser- vance outside Stockholm City Hall, where Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said “the whole of Sweden” sympathized with the families and friends of the Le Pen ignites uproar, denying French Holocaust role victims.

By SYLVIE CORBET indoor cycling stadium. In all, runner in the two-round pres- hunter Serge Klarsfeld told France, Chirac in 1995 became SOUTH KOREA Associated Press about 75,000 Jews were sent idential election that will be the Associated Press. the first president to publicly to Nazi concentration camps held on April 23 and May 7. Le Pen later specified in acknowledge the country’s Tougher sanctions on PARIS – France’s far-right from France during WWII. “On the one side, it’s an a written statement that she role in the deportations of North Korea OK’d presidential contender has Only 2,500 survived. historical and political mis- “considers that France and Jews, issuing a long-awaited prompted a major outcry by Other French candidates take. And on the other side, the Republic were in Lon- public apology at the start of China and South Korea agreed denying that the French gov- and Israel’s For- it’s the sign that Marine Le don” during the war and that his first term in office. to impose tougher sanctions ernment was responsible for eign Ministry Pen is the daughter of Jean- the Vichy regime that collabo- Israel’s Foreign Ministry on North Korea if it carries the roundup of Jews in World were quick to Marie Le Pen,” Macron said, rated with the Nazis “wasn’t was not persuaded by her out nuclear or intercontinental War II. condemn Le referring to Le Pen’s father, France.” elaboration. ballistic missile tests, a senior Marine Le Pen, a lead- Pen’s remark. co-founder of the anti-Islam She argued that had been “This declaration is con- South Korean diplomat said, as ing candidate, said Sunday “If one doubted party she now leads. the position of France’s heads trary to historical truth, as the U.S. increased its pressure on RTL radio, “I don’t think whether Marine The elder Le Pen repeat- of state, including Charles de expressed in the statements of on the North by moving a Navy France is responsible for the Le Pen is far- edly has been convicted of Gaulle, until former President successive French presidents carrier strike group toward Vel d’Hiv” — a reference to right, there is Le Pen crimes related to anti-Sem- Jacques Chirac “wrongly” who recognized France’s the Korean Peninsula. The the Paris stadium where thou- no doubt any- itism and racism. Marine Le acknowledged the state’s role responsibility for the fate of South Korean announcement sands of Jews were rounded more,” Socialist candidate Pen pushed him out of the in Jewish persecution during the French Jews who perished seemed intended to dissuade up before being sent to Nazi Benoit Hamon said. National Front party as part World War II. “It does not in the Holocaust,” the minis- North Korea from conduct- death camps. Le Pen’s main rival in the of an effort to appeal to more discharge the effective and try said in a statement. ing a test to mark a national Some 13,000 Jews were race, independent centrist mainstream voters. personal responsibility of the T he two top vote-getters in holiday this week, but previ- deported by French police Emmanuel Macron, said at “I hope the French will French who took part into the the presidential vote on April ous threats have not deterred on July 16-17, 1942, many of a news conference Monday sanction this realignment monstrous roundup of the Vel 23 will go into a runoff on May the North from pressing ahead whom first were detained that Le Pen made a “serious of Marine Le Pen with her d’Hiv,” she wrote. 7. Polls suggest Le Pen will with its nuclear program. under harsh conditions at the mistake.” Macron is the front- father,” famed French Nazi After decades of denial in advance to the second round. NEWS SERVICES ZSW [C M Y K]A5 Tuesday, Apr. 11, 2017

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MICHAEL J. KLINGENSMITH, Publisher and CEO SCOTT GILLESPIE, Editor, Editorial Pages Tax fairness gap is gone in Minnesota An obscure report produced every two years by the state Depart- ment of Revenue became a political weapon in gubernatorial candidate Mark Dayton’s hands eight years ago. The 2009 Minnesota Tax Inci- iStockphoto.com dence Study showed that well off Minnesotans were paying a signifi- cantly smaller share of their incomes in state and local taxes than were people with incomes between $50,000 and $100,000 a year. DOGS AND MAIL CARRIERS DFLer Dayton rode into the governor’s office in 2010 with a promise to make the tax burden fairer and stabilize state government finances Hey, many are on friendly terms by raising taxes on higher income Minnesotans. By contrast: A new Tax Incidence Study was released on March 17 and In response to “Dogs menace more mail carriers” (April 8): My neighbors Riley, Riley, has generated nary a mention in the ensuing weeks from state politicians, Albert, JimBob and I cannot wait to “menace” our beloved mail carrier, Lee. I can’t control despite a growing cadre of candidates running to succeed Dayton in 2019. my waggly tail once I spot his little white USPS truck parked across the street. Does he really That’s likely because the new report shows that the gap in effective have to deliver the mail to the other side of the street before he stops at my front door? I yelp tax rates that Dayton decried in 2009 and 2010 was almost gone by 2014. with delight as he walks up our sidewalk, and love the taste of his aftershave, which he gen- That was a year after Dayton signed into law a new top-tier income tax erously lets me sample. Sometimes I have to piddle a little, I’m so happy to see him. rate — 9.85 percent, applying to that portion of a filer’s Minnesota tax- When I go for walks, I’m almost as thrilled to see Bev and Mark, my other letter carrier able income that exceeds $250,000 for married joint filers and $150,000 friends, who, like Lee, always give me a friendly pat, and sometimes a treat! for single filers. (Those thresholds climb with inflation each year.) I’m sorry about my fellow canines’ behavior on the other side of the river. [Minneapolis That change, which Dayton says affected 2 percent of this state’s ranked 10th with 43 attacks on mail carriers in 2016.] I’d like to invite those mail people to income tax filers, was the largest of several forces that have worked my Mac-Groveland neighborhood and show them why they call us man’s best friends. together to spread the state-plus-local tax burden more equally among MADDIE SCHUETT-WENDT, border collie, via TERSENIA SCHUETT, St. Paul households regardless of their incomes. The new Tax Incidence Study, which reports on actual taxes paid in 2014 and projects ahead to 2019, finds that most Minnesotans, wealthier and poor, pay about 12 percent of their incomes in state and local taxes. The poorest, with incomes below WATER USE Our three-year data show we are dramatically $35,000, pay a slightly higher effective rate; those with incomes between reducing the number of children with untreated White Bear Lake level is not only decay. Yes, the state needs to increase the abysmal $150,000 and $350,000 pay a slightly lower rate. But those with million- example of overloved lawns insurance payments that our profession receives dollar incomes were taxed at 12 percent, compared with 8.9 percent in If a municipality really cares about “the health, from Medical Assistance, but the oral health com- 2006. That distribution is projected to hold nearly constant through 2019. safety and welfare of its residents” by providing its munity also needs to think outside the box to solve Some Minnesotans are bound to argue that flattening the “tax inci- citizens with an “adequate drinking water supply” the inequity in oral health care, because we will (“White Bear case pits lawns vs. lakes,” April 10), never drill and fill our way out of this crisis. dence curve” has been undesirable. It undoubtedly came at a competi- it ought to be cracking down on lawn sprinklers. ADELE DELLA TORRE, Minneapolis tive cost among those who compare top-bracket state income tax rates. Businesses and residents seem to think it’s Minnesota’s was third-highest in the nation in 2016. necessary to irrigate their lawns every other day AMERICAN INCLUSIVITY instead of watering when the lawn needs it, thus But if states can compete on tax fairness, Minnesota is positioned to do wasting untold gallons of water. Even worse are It’s mixed, to say the least well. The national Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy ranked Min- sprinkler heads that water parking lots, sidewalks Regarding the April 9 article about the 75th nesota the fifth-fairest state in the country in 2014 for taxing those at higher and roads. When visiting the Twin Cities area, I Anniversary of the Bataan Death March (“I am not have seen so much water running down the sewers, going to die”): I am a second-generation Filipino- incomes at nearly the same effective rate as the poor. It praised Minne- and it makes me wonder why people are so oblivi- American — I was born and raised here. During sota not only for raising its top income tax rate, but also for its refundable ous to the problems they are causing. It’s past time World War II, my father fought alongside Ameri- income tax credit for low-income families, its income-adjusted property for people to realize green, weed-free lawns are far cans as a 15-year-old guerrilla resistance fighter in tax refund programs, and for a sales tax that exempts grocery purchases. less important than our water supply. the Philippines. Later he joined the U.S. Navy and Imagine the water that would be saved if lawns served for more than 30 years. I find it ironic that State income tax rates, the working family credit and the property tax were watered once a week, or only when they need on the same weekend that the world was honor- refunds are all in play as Dayton and a legislative conference committee it, and if sprinkler heads watered only lawns and ing Filipino World War II veterans like my father, get serious in the next several weeks about setting state tax policy for the gardens rather than pavement. Water is necessary a woman I had never met before looked at my face for life, and green lawns are not. Give White Bear and told me, “You don’t have enough of a family next two years. With a surplus forecast in the state budget, credits and its lake back. history here to understand what it’s like to be an refunds could go up and rates could go down. The governor and legisla- DIANE HINIKER, Grand Marais, Minn. American.” tors will do well to choose with an eye toward maintaining tax fairness. EILEEN MATRO, Minneapolis LIVING WAGE As Dayton can attest, that’s a tax policy characteristic Minnesotans value. What will you sacrifice, shoppers? ENERGY SUBSIDIES Want to create millions of jobs that pay a living It’s complicated to compare wage? Answer these questions to see if you are the costs of coal vs. solar OTHER VIEWS really serious about jobs. An April 6 letter on the topic of energy subsidies EXCERPTED FROM EDITORIALS AROUND THE NATION 1) What is more important to you, low prices or referred to a report by Lazard and stated several other people working? facts from that report. DEMOCRATIC RESISTANCE Schumer must decide whether he 2) Are you willing to pay more at a local inde- What the letter writer stated was correct, but he Schumer caved to party’s activists wants to be the leader of the Senate’s pendent store than you do at a big-box store? left out key points regarding the cost and viability Democrats or a follower of the party’s 3) Are you willing to pay more for locally grown of renewable energy. What did Senate Minority Leader activist base. His first responsibility as an produce rather than the cheaper agribusiness While I am not opposed to the use of renewable Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., achieve in American is to be a patriot and do what’s products? energy, it’s like all forms of energy — not perfect. attempting to deny a vote on Judge right for the country. Leadership requires 4) Are you willing to live in a less-efficient world He stated that wind was between $32 and $62 Neil Gorsuch, President Trump’s nomi- more than doing battle with the opposi- where agribusiness is broken up in order to favor and Appalachian coal was $60 to $143. These costs nee for the Supreme Court? tion; it requires speaking difficult truths hundreds of thousands of small, family-owned are for new plants and, for coal, include carbon Not keeping Gorsuch off the court; to your own troops. It would not have farms? capture, which has not been commercially proven he was approved on Friday. Not pre- required much courage for Schumer to The bottom line is that efficiency and automa- and is extremely expensive. This would be similar serving the filibuster for use against announce that he would oppose Gorsuch tion are killing more jobs than those shipped off- to increasing the cost of wind generation by assum- any future Trump nominee; Senate while still allowing a vote to proceed. shore. ing the application of some technology to reduce Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Schumer’s gambit will impose a Final question: the noise pollution from the blades. Using current R-Ky., abolished the tactic on Thursday. second, even more harmful, cost on the 5) Are you willing to live with less cheap stuff operating coal plants that meet current environ- Not standing on principle; after rightly country: ending the tradition that sena- so that our family, friends, neighbors and fellow mental regulations as a comparative point would attacking Republicans for denying tors consider judicial nominees’ legal Americans can have jobs? show the results differently. Merrick Garland a vote last year, Demo- qualifications more than their political These are the questions that I’m struggling with He stated that the wind costs shown were crats tried to do the same thing. philosophy. This tradition has taken right now. How much am I willing to change my unsubsidized. That is not totally true. The report Schumer did, however, achieve a some blows in recent decades, but with life so that my fellow Americans can work? notes the removal of the Solar Investment Credit political victory: He placated the “resis- Garland and Gorsuch, the two parties How about you? but not the Production Tax Credit. tance” wing of the Democratic Party, have bludgeoned it to death. Leading LES PHILLIPS, Minneapolis For solar, he fails to mention that the majority which opposes any cooperation with the Democratic attack may have been of current solar power is from residential roof- Republicans. Party activists had threat- the most shortsighted decision of ORAL HEALTH top units, for which the study shows the cost is ened to mount primary campaigns Schumer’s long career. As always, prevention between $138 and $222. For utility-scale solar, the against Democrats who allowed a vote Democrats will almost certainly costs are between $36 and $61 and use of acres to proceed, even organizing protests come to regret taking revenge for Gar- As a practicing dentist for the past 30 years in of land. outside the Brooklyn home of Schumer, land. It is not hard to imagine a Repub- Minneapolis and a former board member of Apple Finally, solar does not work at night, and wind who is not up for re-election until 2022. lican majority refusing to allow a vote Tree Dental, I applaud the April 8 report on the lack only when the wind speed is just right. If these By caving to their demands, on the Supreme Court nominee of a of access to proper dental treatment for Medical sources are not available, fossil plants like coal and Schumer bought his conference some Democratic president — not in the last Assistance patients (“Despite insurance, dental natural gas plants come to the rescue. temporary peace. But the price for the year of his or her tenure, but in the first. patients hurting”). The simple reality is that no DALE PROBASCO, Backus, Minn. country is steep. With this kind of tit-for-tat obstruction- dental practice can survive getting paid at 25 per- This resistance movement is the ism, the court might even come to lack cent of the cost of treatment. mirror image of the Tea Party, which a six-member quorum. But there is a proven strategy beyond increas- has pushed Republicans into a period The partisanship that has increas- ing payments: prevention. Although dental decay YOUR VIEWS? of obstructionism that persists even ingly consumed Congress is now is the most common chronic childhood disease, it We welcome your participation in these pages, with their transition to the governing inflicting collateral damage on the is 100 percent preventable. My practice has taken whether in letters for the “Readers Write” section or party. If the Democrats’ resistance wing courts. The long-term consequences this mission to the next level by founding a school- commentaries for the “Opinion Exchange” page. calls the tune on other major questions — for the country and for Schumer’s based dental nonprofit called Ready Set Smile The best way to contribute is through the “Submit facing Congress — from infrastructure legacy — could be severe. (readysetsmile.org). Our data show that 1 out of a letter or commentary” link on our website, at www. to trade to health care — Americans FROM AN EDITORIAL 2 children in the schools we serve have untreated startribune.com/opinion. You can also submit by will be poorer for it. AT BLOOMBERG VIEW decay. Untreated decay can progress to require e-mail to [email protected]. extractions and other expensive procedures. Our Submissions must be exclusive to us in Minnesota. program provides a classroom curriculum, and All must include the writer’s real, legal name, address, access to sealants and fluoride treatment. We occupation and phone numbers. Letters and rebuttals TO OUR READERS employ allied dental professionals and commu- become the property of the Star Tribune and may be Star Tribune editorial cartoonist Steve Sack was named a Pulitzer Prize nity health workers to bring these services to the republished in any format. Letters should be brief, up finalist on Monday. Sack, who won the Pulitzer Prize for cartooning in school community. Oral health becomes part of the to 250 words. Articles should be fewer than 700 words. 2013, was also a finalist in 2004 and 2016. To see Monday’s announce- schools’ culture in a nonjudgmental, atraumatic Because of the volume of submissions, we cannot ment on Sack, go to http://www.pulitzer.org/finalists/steve-sack-1. and culturally sensitive manner. respond to all writers. ZSW [C M Y K]A7 Tuesday, Apr. 11, 2017

TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 2017 STAR TRIBUNE • A7 Opinion Exchange

A SPECIAL EDITION OF READERS WRITE REACTIONS TO THE AIRSTRIKE ON SYRIA The combat role, diplomacy, the U.S. image, Trump’s motivation, the Constitution

Editor’s note: The inbox for letters to the editor has been especially full following President Trump’s decision last week to launch missile strikes against an air base in Syria in retaliation for a chemical-weapons attack. Rather than trying to select just a few of these letters for publication, we’ve decided to represent the full range in this expanded edition of Readers Write. Please note that the balance of views in this package reflects that which we received.

et us analyze the April 8 letter have been avoided. As a nation we put forward under the headline can only hope that the “new sheriff” L“Trump is abusing our power”: learns something from the “old sher- • “Thus begin the nightmares of iff” — that the words of a president veterans. …” often matter as much as actions. Yo u I am a combat veteran and do not do not tell a brutal dictator like Assad suffer nightmares. — over and over — that you aren’t • “Military lives are treated as for- going to intervene no matter what feit — of no consequence — in deci- he does. sions to make war, simply pawns in ERIC W. FORSBERG, Golden Valley a game of thrones. … ” • • • We in the military voluntarily In a coffee shop conversation fol- enlisted to defend this nation know- lowing the U.S. missile strikes, I threw ing that we may eventually go into into conversation that “we are a bar- harm’s way. baric people.” Another took issue • “What is wrong with this pic- with my comment — especially if I’d ture? A billionaire in a comfortable meant to include Americans. True; and luxurious setting (made possible guided by better angels, we’re also a by millions of our tax money) has just kind and generous people. But see- rained death and destruction (made ing the USA from other parts of the possible by billions of our tax money) world and through the eyes of other SHEALAH CRAIGHEAD • White House via New York Times on an already beleaguered people peoples, angels of violence have been President Trump and administration leaders were briefed in real time on the missile strikes on an air base in Syria while refusing to help refugees and close allies of America since our at the president’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., April 6. Seated clockwise from left: Joseph Hagin, deputy personally dodging taxes. … ” nation was born. chief of staff; Jared Kushner; Steven Mnuchin, the Treasury secretary; Wilbur Ross, the commerce secretary; Press The attack was on an airstrip, not Miroslav Volf, a Croatian teach- Secretary Sean Spicer; Trump; Steve Bannon, his chief strategist; Stephen Miller, a senior adviser; Michael Anton, civilians. ing at Yale, wrote that as a young- the National Security Council spokesman; Dina Powell, the deputy national security adviser; Gary Cohn, Trump’s • “When the president abuses our ster in Eastern Europe he’d admired chief economic adviser; Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (next to Trump); Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, the national security power, he makes us all complicit — our country from afar. He still does adviser, and Reince Priebus, the president’s chief of staff. but some suffer much more than oth- — with the caveat “but living here I ers.” find that Americans are a ‘kick-ass’ There was no abuse of power, and people.” Our knee-jerk response to a great deal of the civilized world violent death is to threaten death broke international law and ceded the obscene. That said, I keep wonder- supreme law of the land? sighed in relief that the United States with death — even visiting it upon moral high ground. And to what end? ing how the parents of the children WILLARD B. SHAPIRA, Roseville had finally drawn a line in the sand. perpetrators “justifiably.” Altogether We lost the opportunity to apply pres- at Sandy Hook are feeling right now. I • • • PAUL A. TRILL, Glenwood too often, photos of gun carnage pic- sure on Russia as Assad’s benefactor, keep wondering what it takes to drive Trump is a pompous, self-absorbed • • • ture what? More guns — strapped to and the next day Assad’s warplanes our government to take action on man-child who has managed to do the One of the April 8 letters about the authorities. Threatening death with took off from the same airstrip to drop behalf of the children in this country. right thing even when a better U.S. Syria strike boasted that “there is a death! It seems beyond us — beyond conventional bombs on Iblid. Assad, KAREN SCHOTT, Excelsior president could not. new sheriff in town” — meaning, of our capability — to threaten death Russia and Iran are emboldened, and • • • Sometimes you do the right thing course, Trump. The writer went on with life. the suffering of the Syrian people is The dishonesty of the Trump at the wrong time; other times you do to argue “Syrian President Bashar al- The Christian church throughout unabated. administration and his party makes the wrong thing at the right time — Assad got the message … that his days the world is in Holy Week. This week Saber-rattling with North Korea is me cynical about anything they do. this is what happened with Trump’s of launching chemical strikes against many of us will re-enact the myopic even more dangerous. Kim Jong Un And this cynic can’t help wonder- measured, appropriate response to his own people, unchallenged by any way we delivered what seemed a jus- is both unpredictable and despica- ing if the missile strike against Syria Assad’s gas attack on his own peo- world leader, are over.” Apparently, tifiably expedient solution, “missiles ble. Pre-emptive military action will wasn’t a charade. No doubt the gas ple. The conflict in Syria is a compli- the writer forgot that the last sher- of destruction,” upon what turned out result in massive casualties in South attack occurred and people died. But cated rock-paper-scissors game, way iff achieved the goal of stopping the to be life itself. We’ll learn that God Korea and Japan, including U.S. per- Trump needs a major red herring to beyond the capacity of Trump’s fee- chemical-weapons attacks by the suffers all the kick-ass we might be sonnel. The only viable solutions on forestall continued investigation ble decisionmaking ability, that pits Assad government without missiles — and yet holds nothing against us! the Korean Peninsula and the Middle into his ties to Russia. What better Assad, Russia and Iran against anti- — through an agreement brokered JOHN BIPES, Mankato East will be diplomatic. way than to bomb a Syrian air base Assad forces including the U.S. and with the Russians in 2013. • • • The U.S. must project a foreign in a way that seems to challenge Rus- its allies, and, of course, the Islamic Perhaps the writer should have The Star Tribune editorial “Fol- policy whose foundation is diplo- sia? So now pundits can ask: How State of Iraq and Syria. wondered why Assad waited until low missile strike with diplomatic macy. Diplomacy is not synonymous could there be any alliance between Unlike Obama’s threat of airstrikes after the new sheriff was inaugurated push” (April 9) was accurate on with weakness or appeasement. In Trump and Russia? And are the Rus- in 2013, which resulted in reduced to launch this chemical attack. Could many points but failed to recognize fact, it takes significant measures of sians feigning indignation to further stockpiles of Assad’s chemical weap- it be that Assad did get the message a critical issue. Our leaders must courage, fortitude and wisdom to suc- the charade? Perhaps the future will ons stockpiles, this decisive move sent from candidate Trump and President embrace diplomatic peacemaking ceed with diplomacy. We must nur- tell. In the meantime, keep investi- a clear, unequivocal message that use Trump, Secretary of State Rex Til- as the primary and sometimes the ture these qualities among ourselves gating. of chemical weapons will not be toler- lerson and U.N. Ambassador Nikky only option to resolve international and embrace leaders who will pursue EDWARD PLASTER, Edina ated by the U.S. Obama did the right Haley that this administration would conflict. the path of peace. • • • thing at the wrong time in 2013 (when not intervene in the Syrian civil war? The editorial was heavy on pol- PHIL GEORGE, Lakeville What I feared most about a Trump a sarin attack by Assad killed 1,400 in a Did Assad believe he had a “green icy analysis and prescriptions, and • • • presidency has come true. He acts Syrian village) by extracting a reduc- light” to do whatever he wanted to of course those perspectives are Using violence to respond to vio- on an impulse without thinking or tion in chemical weapons because destroy the opposition, including important. The disposition to employ lence accomplishes only more evil. restraint. We should sympathize getting the required approval from using chemical weapons? In that diplomacy, however, is at least as The correct response to the sarin-gas with the Syrians over Assad’s use of a hostile U.S. Congress and the U.N. event, Trump bears some responsi- vital, and it is that tendency that will attack would have been to parachute- chemical weapons. However, Syria Security Council was a nonstarter. bility for the lives lost in the chemical drive policy decisions. Macho rheto- drop many tons of food and medi- is a sovereign nation. Trump has The prospect of a gas attack in a attack on Khan Sheikhoun. ric and aggressive action as the first cal supplies into the regions where ordered an attack on the air force of crowded U.S. city likely had more to I do support the cruise missile responses undermine opportunities Assad’s opponents live, to support a sovereign nation without authori- do with Trump’s decision than the attack on the Shayrat airfield as nec- for peaceful resolutions. the people who oppose this evil man. zation from Congress. If he orders horrific images of babies struggling essary to hopefully deter future use The missile attack on a Syrian MARK R. JACOBSON, Richville another attack against Russian forces to breathe their last breath. Trump of chemical weapons by the Assad airfield illustrates this folly. While • • • in Syria, against Chinese forces in the did the right thing at the wrong regime, but wonder if it all could widely lauded as appropriate, the U.S. Killing innocent children is Sea of China or against nuclear sites time by attacking a sovereign nation in North Korea, we may be facing a without seeking U.N. or congressio- more potent enemy that has nuclear nal approval, an approval that was weapons. A nuclear war may mean unlikely, and that, if it came at all, the extinction of the human race. would have been too little, too late. As citizens, we need to take steps to It seems even a broken clock can MIKE LESTER WASHINGTON POST WRITERS GROUP prevent Trump from taking such ille- be right once in a while. gal and dangerous courses of action. BENJAMIN CHERRYHOMES, Hastings We need to write our congressmen • • • asking them to censor Trump for In showing his support of Trump’s starting a war without congressio- decision to strike a Syrian military nal authorization. Congress needs base without consulting Congress, to debate whether we go to war in Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCo- Syria. We need to protest his action. nnell stated: “It is a clear signal from We need to f ight any increase in mili- America that Bashar al-Assad can tary spending while he is president. no longer use chemical weapons If we do nothing, we at best might against his own people with impu- have another fruitless war like we had nity.” Having served in Vietnam, I can with Iraq in 2003 that destabilized assure the senator that the chemical the Middle East, or we might have weapons America used there, Agent a war against North Korea in which Orange and Napalm, are deadly. nuclear missiles are targeted at U.S. Approximately 75 percent of Vietnam forces in South Korea and Japan or veterans who had their boots on the the U.S. itself. ground have died. Understandably, I ROGER CLARKE, Minneapolis find the senator’s comment, and oth- • • • ers made by those who support the So Trump launches missiles president’s decision, ironic at best against Syria without congressio- and hypocritical at worse. nal approval, and his opponents hiss I have survived Agent Orange, so and moan about this. But what can far, and my wife and I will attend a they do to him — make him stand in Vietnam veterans reunion this month. a corner for an hour? Make him write For a number of us, it will be our last. on a blackboard 100 times, “I will After I applied for Agent Orange com- never again launch missiles against pensation, it became clear the veter- any country without congressional ans who told me that the VA policy is, approval”? I will bet you dollars to essentially, “delay and deny until they doughnuts there is no reprisal against die” were correct. The entire process the president for violating the Con- took more than six years. You know, stitution, so where does that leave just like foreign-aid payments. the Constitution as supposedly the THOMAS EDWARDS, Forest Lake ZSW [C M Y K]A8 Tuesday, Apr. 11, 2017

A8 • STAR TRIBUNE TUESDAY, APRIL 11, 2017 Wells Road salt threatening metro lakes Fargo ø SALT from A1 includes 45 water bodies The state has been fight- found 371 that were larger watersheds with 18 percent and Ontario, Canada — 62 of polluted with chloride, 39 of ing the problem for years, and than 10 acres with enough road densities or greater. That which were in the Twin Cit- which are in the metro area many local governments have data, including a significant covers most of the metro area, ies metro area. The study w here the high concentration succeeded in reducing their number in Minnesota. but also urban watersheds in clawback: was published Monday in the of roads, sidewalks and park- use of salt thanks in part to the They combined that with towns like Austin, Rochester Proceedings of the National ing lots g ets about 349,000 tons MPCA’s long running program climate data and land use and St. Cloud, and provides a Academies of Science. of road salt a year. The Missis- t o educate municipalities and data that identified paved and road map for where lakes are $75M The study could provide sippi River in the metro area property owners on how to use impervious surfaces. at greatest risk, she said. new guidance for environ- is not yet polluted enough to less without compromising They saw a clear picture Dugan found that lakes ø WELLS from A1 mental campaigns in many violate federal standards, but a safety. The University of Min- that tied the amount of pave- with a 500-meter perimeter the bank. That included the northern states, including recent report showed that salt nesota cut its use by 41 percent, ment with salty lakes. Any of trees or natural vegetation number of workers fired for Minnesota, to use less salt. concentrations, mostly from and the city of Waconia has cut lake with 1 percent or more of were largely protected from u nethical conduct. While many of those efforts road salt, have increased 81 s alt use by 70 percent. paved surface around its bor- salt, at least for a while. Those “Tolstedt effectively chal- focus on road and street agen- percent since 1985. The legal pollution stan- der increased the likelihood lakes, mostly in the wooded lenged and resisted scrutiny,” cies like MnDOT, Dugan said “That’s a dramatic increase dard for salt set by the Envi- of long-term salinization, she areas of the northeast part of the report said, describing homeowners and private busi- in any kind of contamina- ronmental Protection Agency said. And 27 percent of all the the country, showed low or Tolstedt and members of her nesses are to blame for about tion,” said Brooke Asleson, is 230 milligrams per liter. And lakes in the country have at oscillating trends in chloride. “inner circle” as “insular and half the salt used each winter. who manages the metro area that amounts to one teaspoon least that much around their Still, a healthy perimeter defensive.” And no one knows how much salt reduction project for the per five gallons of water. perimeters. It means, she said, of natural landscape is most Tolstedt, on the advice of they are using. Minnesota Pollution Control that if current trends continue likely a temporary solution, her lawyer, declined to be Agency (MPCA). A permanent pollutant many of them will no longer she said, because no matter interviewed during Shearman ‘Teaspoons, not cups’ Groundwater in the metro Dugan and her co-research- be able to support aquatic life where it goes, salt is perma- & Sterling’s investigation. “When you put down salt area is also affected, accord- ers from across the country by 2050. nent. In an e-mailed statement on the sidewalk you should be ing to the M PCA, with almost conducted the study in an A n MPCA study of briny “Road salt is not going to be Monday, Tolstedt’s attorney thinking of teaspoons — not a third of the monitoring wells effort to develop a national lakes in the Twin Cities removed,” she said “It’s either Enu Mainigi said, “We strongly cups,” she said. “A ll you need in the area showing enough picture of salt contamina- looked at the relationship stored in the soil or ends up in disagree with the report and its is a few crystals to work effec- salt to affect aquatic life, and tion in water. They used all another way, Asleson said. It the water.” attempt to lay blame with Ms. tively on ice.” almost as many with enough the available data they could found that the urban lakes that Tolstedt. A full and fair exami- Minnesota’s official list to affect the taste of drinking find on lakes that have been exceeded the federal pollution Josephine Marcotty • 612-673-7394 nation of the facts will produce of impaired waters already water. monitored long-term. They standard were always found in a different conclusion.” Stumpf, meanwhile, was overly deferential to Tolstedt, the report found, and to the bank’s long-standing focus on cross-selling, which required employees to sell multiple ser- vices to individual customers. Ellison’s new role: Party evangelist As a result, it said, he was “too late and too slow” to make ø ELLISON from A1 changes. we have to go,” Ellison said in The report paints the an interview. bank’s board, meanwhile, as Often Ellison travels with being out of the loop on the DNC Chairman Tom Perez, scope of the problems. Asked who narrowly beat him in Monday if he should resign, February for the top party Wells Fargo Chairman Ste- post. Ellison has since moved phen Sanger, who has been on to show that his role as dep- the bank’s board since 2003, uty chairman is more than just defended the board’s actions, symbolic, working with Perez saying it has acted properly to bring Democrats together since the scandal came to around shared goals and ide- light. als greater than simply blan- “A s we got information, we ket opposition to the agenda acted appropriately,” he said. of President D onald Trump. Echoing the Shearman & “You can see that they’re Sterling report, Sanger said the looking to build the party from board was not made aware of the bottom up,” said Mayor the scope of the problem — Matt Doherty of Belmar, N.J., millions of potentially unau- who attended a recent event thorized accounts — and 5,300 with Ellison and Perez for a workers f ired for bad practices Democratic state Senate can- — until the bank reached a $185 didate in nearby Asbury Park, million settlement with regu- even though it’s a traditional lators last year. Republican bastion. The internal bank investi- Democratic leaders from gation was released just days states as diverse as Michigan DAVID ZALUBOWSKI • Associated Press after an influential share- and Texas say they’re looking Rep. Keith Ellison knows his party has to beat Republicans all over the nation and at all levels of government. holder advisory firm said to Minnesota as a model for that board members failed to how to engage more voters nesota is a strong player here, in the field year-round, even an anti-Trump movement and he’s here to help with the local properly oversee the bank and and build a stronger party in so in terms of rushing out this in areas that lean Republican. work on community organiz- races,” Bankston said. could have done more to pre- their own states. Minnesota week, that’s not exactly as nec- “I think he was able to steal ing. Closer to home, Ellison is vent “unsound retail banking had the highest voter turnout essary as it is for some other our message, frankly, tapping “People know him,” said planning to speak at the Wis- sales practices.” in the U.S. last year and is his- places.” into people’s economy anxi- Gilberto Hinojosa, chairman consin Democratic Party’s Institutional Shareholder torically at or near the top. Last weekend, Ellison vis- ety,” D illon said of Trump. of the Texas Democratic Party, Founder’s Day dinner in Mil- Services recommended Friday Elected to Congress in ited Michigan, which has a “We thought we could rely on whose daughter recently waukee in May. He has been that shareholders vote against 2006, Ellison represents Min- Republican governor and the base in Michigan to get us became communications heavily involved i n Wisconsin, the election of 12 of the bank’s neapolis and several of its sub- Republican majorities in over the top, and we learned director for the DNC. “He’s which has swung hard toward 15 board members, including urbs. He had been prepared to the Legislature. Voters there a hard lesson that we have to not an obscure congressman Republicans in recent cycles. Sanger, at the bank’s upcoming resign his congressional seat went for Trump after support- talk to voters year-round.” from Minnesota, he’s a super- Asked if he has bigger polit- annual meeting. had he been elected party ing President B arack Obama Ellison visited New Hamp- star congressman from Min- ical ambitions, Ellison said The bank’s board called that chair man but now indicates twice. He spoke at a big fun- shire last month, telling Dem- nesota.” he doesn’t have any plans to recommendation “extreme he’s likely to run for re-elec- draising dinner and met with ocrats there to think bigger Ellison’s party-building leave his congressional seat. and unprecedented,” and said tion next year. He said he still various Democratic constitu- than Trump and voicing con- efforts predate his time as On Monday night, he hosted a shareholders should wait for gets back to Minnesota every encies. cern about a state Senate bill DNC deputy chairman. Last health care forum in Hopkins. the release of the Shearman & week despite his busy sched- Brandon Dillon, chairman that the party believes would fall, he helped raise more than Ellison believes his Hennepin Sterling report. ule and has plans to bring his of the Michigan Democratic restrict voting rights. He has $40,000 for a Democratic leg- County constituents under- W ells Fargo’s practices activism to greater Minne- Party, said his organization cultivated close relationships islative candidate in Sugar stand that his current empha- were uncovered in a 2013 sota, where large swaths of has a plan for revival in line with Democrats in Texas, Land, a Republican area out- sis on politics is ultimately Los Angeles Times story voters went for Trump and with Ellison’s principles. where voter turnout is among side Houston. Don Bankston, about increasing the power that found overbearing sales helped flip the Minnesota Called Project 83, a reference the lowest in the nation but the local Democratic chair- of Democrats in Washington. pressure was leading bank Legislature to GOP control to the number of counties in where the party has made man, said Ellison energized “A s I go around the coun- employees to create bank i n November. the state, it calls for rebuilding gains in recent elections. the local South Asian Mus- try, it’s very clear that if other accounts for customers with- “But if you look at this thing the bench of Democratic lead- While in Texas last month, lim community; while the states could replicate what we out their knowledge or autho- from the standpoint of triage, ers and helping progressive Ellison and Perez visited Aus- Democrat lost, Bankston said, do in Minnesota, we would rization. Minnesota is not bleeding out candidates win nonpartisan tin for a state party fundraiser she narrowed previous losing have a completely different Monday’s report found the way some other places races for local seats. They’re and training summit for Dem- margins. political landscape,” he said. that Wells Fargo took steps are,” Ellison said. “It is impor- trying to reinvest in local par- ocrats. The topic was how to “He ’s not just here to help to address problematic sales tant to understand that Min- ties and hire organizers to be engage constituencies, build with the presidential races, Maya Rao • 612-673-4210 practices in 2002 and noticed a big uptick in firings over sales- practices violations by 2004 — nearly a decade before the Times story and a dozen years before the bank’s practices came to national attention. So edges closer to competing for world championship The Los Angeles city attor- ney sued the bank in 2015, and ø CHESS from A1 Onischuk to concede the draw July, he has dominated elite Wells Fargo agreed on Sept. 12 grandmasters — but he and the championship — and international competitions. 8, 2016, to pay $185 million desperately wanted to earn the first prize of $50,000. He is now the No. 2-ranked to regulators. The bank has this title for the first time. “Today wasn’t easy at all, player in the world, behind said that as many as 2.1 mil- “I really wanted to win this but I wasn’t expecting it to be,” only the world champion. At lion checking, savings and one this year … because it’s the So said, adding that his play in the U.S. Championship he other accounts were created strongest national competi- the tournament shows he still extended his unbeaten streak without customer authoriza- tion in the world,” So said. “A ll has “a lot to improve upon.” to 67 games, one of the longest tion. The settlement created the great [U.S.] players have “I’m just happy to have won such runs in history. a firestorm and congressional won this one.” this and to be able to say I’m So’s calendar for the rest inquiries during which Stumpf So faced a playoff after the U.S. champion.” of the year includes top-flight was pilloried. he finished the nearly two- So’s rapid rise has been competitions in Azerbai- Stumpf resigned in October week tournament Sunday in s pectacular. He came to the jan, Norway, Paris, Belgium, and was replaced by Timothy a two-way tie for first place. Provided photo U.S. from the Philippines on Spain, St. Louis (again), Geor- Sloan, the bank’s president and The playoff with g randmas- Alexander Onischuk, left, agreed to a draw with Minnetonka’s a college chess scholarship in gia (the country) and London. chief operating officer, who ter Alexander Onischuk of Wesley So in the second of two playoff games on Monday. 2012 when he was ranked No. By the end of the year, So has led the bank’s effort to put Texas consisted of two “rapid” 99 in the world. A little more hopes to secure one of eight the scandal behind it. games in which each player Onischuk, nearly out of down two pawns and edging than two years later he broke spots in what’s called the The bank has fired a hand- had only 25 minutes on his time and completely out of closer and closer to running into the world top 10, earning Candidates Tournament. ful of regional executives, clock for the entire game. So, defensive resources, resigned. out of time on his clock, which invitations to elite tourna- That tournament is likely to canceled bonuses for top playing with the white pieces, With that win, So only needed would mean an immediate ments. At first he struggled be held next spring, and the executives and eliminated dominated the first game. a draw in the second game to loss. Down to his last 18 sec- against the world’s best play- winner earns the right to play sales goals for branch work- “Kudos to Wesley the way win the championship. onds, So found a way to keep ers. At the 2015 Sinquefield a head-to-head match against ers. It has also made changes he created instant madness” In that game, the colors checking Onischuk’s king Cup in St. Louis, he finished the world champion, Magnus at the corporate level aimed that confounded Onischuk, were reversed, and so were with his knight, and there was dead last in a 10-player field. Carlsen, for his title. at ensuring different business said Ashley, providing live- the players’ fortunes. So no way for the king to escape. But So honed his game and units at the bank have stricter stream commentary. found himself on the ropes, That perpetual check forced gained confidence. Since last Dennis J. McGrath • 612-673-4293 oversight.