Bob Collins
We first met Todd and Donna Morse when they were sandbagging against the Red River in 2009. They left Moorhead a few years ago for better times in the Oil Patch. Then the oil boom went bust. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
Economy
The Twins and the company that runs the concessions at Target Field have bused in workers from Chicago and Milwaukee to fill the jobs at the concession stands. Read more →
Beretta, the world’s oldest gun manufacturer, opened its new factory in Tennessee today, making good on its vow to leave a state with tougher gun laws, underscoring that economic development increasingly depends on a state’s politics as well as its taxes. Read more →
MPR News’ Matt Sepic reports today that home buyers are being squeezed in these parts because there aren’t enough home sellers. Land prices are too high so the homes that are being built may not be that affordable.
Maybe it’s just as well.
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People might shake their head at closed factories and jobs shipped overseas, but when it comes to making America great again, talk is cheap.
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Highway 53 between Eveleth and Virginia is being rerouted because United Taconite needs to get at the minerals beneath it. Read more →
Continuing today’s theme of suburbia on the march, the defining corn maze of the Twin Cities is nearing the end, at least in its present location Read more →
Would you camp outside a car dealership for a crack at buying a $35,000 car with a range of about 200 miles?
They are in Eden Prairie, KARE 11 reports Read more →
Wonkblog points to a study from Notre Dame in theorizing that when employers aren’t able to use data, negative stereotypes dictate hiring decisions.
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Reports of the decline of small-town Minnesota are premature, a professor from the University of Minnesota Morris concludes. Read more →
The Jolly Green Giant is now officially dead after a good run in the Minnesota River Valley. Read more →
All across Minnesota, rural grocery stores are holding out against the choices people make. Read more →
It’s not unusual on a warm day to see kids set up a lemonade stand to make a couple of bucks. But these Minneapolis kids wanted to buy a house, or more specifically help a neighbor keep hers.
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A Caribou Coffee and an Einstein Bagels shop opened up yesterday morning at 5 a.m., promising to reward the first 50 customers in line with a free cup of joe and a bagel once a week for year.
Would you sleep out on a sidewalk for more than 12 hours for that? Read more →
The never-ending battle for validation between people who live in the cities and those who live in the suburbs featured a big win for city slickers a little over a year ago when surveys revealed that millennials are heading to the cities in big numbers. Read more →