March 28, 2021

Nike accused of 'using disability' to hype new hands-free sneaker

The GO FlyEase, Nike’s first hands-free shoe, hinges open and closed, so the wearer just needs to slip their foot in and push down in […]
March 28, 2021

2 tugboats speed to help free vessel stuck in Suez Canal as shippers avoid it

Two additional tugboats sped Sunday to Egypt’s Suez Canal to aid efforts to free a skyscraper-sized container ship wedged for days across the crucial waterway, […]
March 27, 2021

Smith to Biden admin: Restart the study on copper-nickel mining near BWCAW

In a Friday letter to Department of Interior Secretary Deb Haaland and Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, who have both publicly opposed mining near […]
March 27, 2021

2 downtown Minneapolis restaurateurs get creative to survive

When the pandemic shutdown began a year ago this month, David Fhima, owner of Fhima’s restaurant in downtown Minneapolis, faced cutting 100 workers and letting […]
March 27, 2021

Minneapolis skyway business owners watch, wait, hope

For nearly 30 years, downtown Minneapolis workers have wended their way through the skyways at lunchtime to grab Chicago-style hot dogs at Walkin’ Dog. Just […]
March 27, 2021

For General Mills, a quick trip through the grinder of social media

General Mills executives knew last week would be a newsy one, but not in the way it turned out. The company’s planned announcements of a […]
March 27, 2021

Schafer: As vaccine rollout makes progress, you can feel the mood change

The Star Tribune’s lovely feature last week of readers’ last photographs of life before the new coronavirus last March shut everything down was an evocative […]
March 27, 2021

Downtown Minneapolis restaurateurs get creative to survive

When the pandemic shutdown began a year ago this month, David Fhima, owner of Fhima’s restaurant in downtown Minneapolis, faced cutting 100 workers and letting […]
March 27, 2021

5 spending and savings habits to keep as pandemic fades

As the pandemic shut down the world around her, Ashli Smith, an Atlanta resident and mom to a newborn, says she set up autopay for […]
March 27, 2021

A health savings account is the triple tax break you may be missing

As Tax Day approaches, an underused part of many health care plans could offer a chance to significantly reduce your tax bill. A health savings […]