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Economy
Charles Gladden is 63. He makes $11 an hour keeping the marble of the Capitol clean, and he takes home about $360 a week. And by ‘home’ he means the subway station. Read more →
AdWeek says the campaign is worth the gamble because nothing else has made South Dakota attractive. Read more →
Like Dunkin’ Donuts, it’s becoming quite the fad to worship at the feet of Minneapolis, even if there’s a fair amount of mythology in the process. The Atlantic seemed to have started the trend a month or so ago when a reporter, without visiting the city, described it as a “miracle,” which it is so Read more →
The state’s grand champion jack pine tree is no more.
It was a good run for the tree in a Mountain Iron neighborhood — two days, according to the Duluth News Tribune.
But after receiving its crown, it was cut down.
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Tyrel Oates, the Charlotte Wells Fargo employee who wrote to CEO John Stumpf last year asking for a $10,000 raise for him and his colleagues, isn’t waiting around for a response, apparently. Read more →
There’s only one Howard Johnson’s restaurant left in the country now. And it doesn’t appear to be on solid footing. Read more →
Target says it will close all of its stores in Canada — the chain’s Waterloo — by April 12.
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I tried out a new burger joint in the Saint Paul skyway a few weeks ago. The food, though overpriced, was decent, especially by Saint Paul skyway standards.
I’ll never go back, however.
Why? Because after you give the cashier your credit card, she turns the monitor around so you can add a tip. Read more →
While we’re consumed — yet again — on whether the public should be footing part of the bill for pro sports stadiums, don’t overlook what’s happening in Duluth, where Cirrus Design, an aircraft manufacturer, is waiting on a public financing package of its own.
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Though it was incomplete and not entirely factual, last month’s story in The Atlantic declaring Minneapolis ‘a miracle’ is doing wonders for the Twin Cities’ image. Read more →
The New York Times today chronicles how the financial industry is ignoring laws protecting military members from losing cars and other possessions to lenders. Read more →
In the wake of its story yesterday about resistance to affordable housing in the suburbs, the Star Tribune rightly editorializes today for affordable housing that’s not concentrated in existing areas of poverty.
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Who’s going to live in the McMansions the parents of millennials are building in the Twin Cities suburbs? Apparently, it won’t be the millennials.
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What we do know is people will start walking out of the headquarters with boxes this week and it’s already starting.
About a dozen ‘upper managers’ were gone by lunch yesterday, according to one report.
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