Readers Write: Border security, President Donald Trump and Rep. Ilhan Omar, running for an office while holding another, winter weather and its implications

[#Drennn.]

Last December, the president refused to sign a bill providing $1.6 billion in border security funding. Instead, demanding $5.7 billion, he dragged the nation through the longest government shutdown in history, exacting a perverse punishment on federal employees and all of us dependent on government services. Now he is prepared to settle for less than $1.4 billion in border security funding. The art of the deal.

Dave Pederson, Excelsior

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Walz proceeds with appeal, and the oil trains keep on coming

Gov. Tim Walz has decided to continue the appeal that Gov. Mark Dayton started to go against the decision to approve the Enbridge oil pipeline.

Apparently he did not read the Feb. 10 article “Growing oil train traffic ‘a big concern.’ ”

The news article states that “oil imports by rail from Canada have hit a historic high, meaning more oil trains are rolling across Minnesota and raising the alert level of local emergency managers.”