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The best of Sack, 2017

One might say this has been a once-in-a-career kind of year for a cartoonist. But Steve Sack has been drawing lessons from the news for decades. For a full retrospective, see "The First and Only Book of Sack," published in August (available at shop.startribune.com).

December 31, 2017 — 9:16am

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.

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