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David Banks

Assistant Commentary Editor
Opinion
David 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

Our Columnists

Banks: Tools, schools and rules: The risk of squelching curiosity

Smartphones are a scourge and one we can make excellent use of if we try.
September 19, 2024
Columns

The underplayed point in the Biden plight

Voters of integrity are being put in a quandary.
July 11, 2024
Our Columnists

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
Our Columnists

David Banks: What Ecclesiastes said, approximately

Nothing new under the sun except to realize it.
May 6, 2024
Commentaries

David Banks: 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

David Banks: 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
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