David Banks
Columnist
OpinionDavid Banks has been involved with various aspects of the opinion pages and their online counterparts since 2005. Before that, he was primarily involved with the editing and production of local coverage. He joined the Star Tribune in 1994.
Latest from David Banks
Columns
The underplayed point in the Biden plight
Voters of integrity are being put in a quandary.
July 11, 2024
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Reflections on decades spent working for a decent person
Scott Gillespie fostered a work environment that took some of the stress, but none of the demands, out of daily journalism.
May 30, 2024
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David Banks: What Ecclesiastes said, approximately
Nothing new under the sun except to realize it.
May 6, 2024
Commentaries
Say what about small towns?
I was raised in one during what I guess were less fearsome times.
July 29, 2023
Commentaries
Nikki Haley's prejudice against aged politicians
She wants to depreciate those older than 75 by subjecting them to a cognitive test, whether they need it or not.
May 10, 2023
Commentaries
Sometimes it melts in April
And sometimes Minnesota's shifty seasons (made you look twice) offer moments of perfection.
April 18, 2023
Commentaries
No stranger to guns — just not good with them
That goes for me, a dilettante, and it goes in a different sense for our nation of devotees. So how to go from here?
June 4, 2022
Commentaries
Let's just keep changing the clocks
Arguments for one time, year-round, fail to consider how the sun shines on Minnesota.
April 9, 2022
Commentaries
Nikki Haley's prejudice against aged politicians
She wants to depreciate those older than 75 by subjecting them to a cognitive test, whether they need it or not.
May 10, 2023
Commentaries
Sometimes it melts in April
And sometimes Minnesota's shifty seasons (made you look twice) offer moments of perfection.
April 18, 2023
Commentaries
No stranger to guns — just not good with them
That goes for me, a dilettante, and it goes in a different sense for our nation of devotees. So how to go from here?
June 4, 2022
Commentaries
Let's just keep changing the clocks
Arguments for one time, year-round, fail to consider how the sun shines on Minnesota.
April 9, 2022