April 25, 2021

The race is on to buy new cars, and prices are going up

Car shoppers might find that bargains are scarce this year. But better prices on trade-ins could help ease the pain. Last year’s pandemic-induced production delays, […]
April 25, 2021

'Full of hatred and fear': Disinformation on YouTube divides a dad and daughter

Isabel Seliger for NPR Renee Ekwoge can’t remember the last conversation she had with her father. They stopped talking regularly months ago, after she moved […]
April 25, 2021

Drone operators challenge surveyors' turf in mapping dispute

When Michael Jones started a side hustle shooting drone photos and videos for real estate agents, his clients wanted more: Images with property lines on […]
April 25, 2021

Proposed rezone on Pine Beach Road goes nowhere

Commissioners took no action during their April 11 board meeting on a proposal to reassign 10 properties on the north side of the road also […]
April 24, 2021

After reaping tax-cut rewards, Minnesota's biggest companies resist Biden's proposed tax hike

Washington – Corporate tax cuts have been kind to Minnesota’s biggest companies. In fact, many of the state’s multi­billion-dollar, multinational corporations had lower effective tax […]
April 24, 2021

LISC Twin Cities and partners deliver first of two riot-recovery funds

In January 2020, Maya Santamaria sold her Odd Fellows building at 2709 E. Lake St. to Adenal Investment of Woodbury for $2.8 million. In May, […]
April 24, 2021

Black neighborhoods in Kansas hard hit by property tax sales

Rozetta Dotson worked two jobs to scrape together the money to pay down a delinquent tax debt on the Kansas City, Kansas, home she owns […]
April 24, 2021

Schafer: Banks resist racial-equity audits, but they shouldn't

By lunchtime Tuesday we should know whether the Wells Fargo & Co. shareholders adopted a proposal to have the company conduct a racial-equity audit, an […]
April 24, 2021

After politics, Walter Mondale made Minnesota business his business

Walter Mondale had been out of law school and working on his own just four years in 1960 when Gov. Orville Freeman asked him to […]
April 24, 2021

Enbridge shells out $750K to law enforcement for Line 3 protest costs

Enbridge so far has paid about $750,000 to Minnesota law enforcement agencies for policing the construction of its controversial new oil pipeline. The money has […]