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We need to keep kids safe online
By U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar. Minnesota
June 27, 2023
The U.S. Surgeon General recently released a warning about the negative impacts of social media on children’s mental health, saying that it presents a profound risk of harm. The advisory also urged social media companies to help parents with the burden of managing the effects of social media on kids. Big tech companies have shown time and time again that they cannot be trusted to protect kids’…
Fighting for our local papers
By Amy Klobuchar, U.S. Senator
April 13, 2021
On May 7 of last year, the Hastings Star Gazette printed its last issue. The paper’s first issue as The Hastings Independent was published in 1857, a year before Minnesota gained statehood. Generations relied on papers like this for local news — they told you who was born and who died, whose daughter just broke the county record for the 400-meter freestyle, whose Holstein won a surprise ribbon at…

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