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 […]
April 24, 2021

Consider the value of daily tasks when buying life insurance

You might not be getting paid to run the kids to school, do the laundry or fix the kitchen sink, but the day-to-day support you […]
April 24, 2021

Missed your turn? 'Recalculate' your career route

“Recalculating,” as the GPS often tells us when we are driving, may be our best career strategy after a year of uncertainty. Roadblocks or jams […]
April 24, 2021

Financial statement shouldn't obscure

Since the 19th century, consistent principles of financial reporting have enabled investments in businesses run by strangers. This, in turn, has led to the rise […]