November 1, 2020

Solve's new brand planning director mines insights to drive creative solutions for clients

Danny Schotthoefer leads efforts to translate client needs into creative strategy in the new role of director of brand planning at Solve, an independent Minneapolis-based […]
November 1, 2020

Investments in clean energy address challenges of climate change, income gap, COVID-19

This spring, at the outset of Minnesota’s pandemic response, the Public Utilities Commission tasked the state’s largest utility companies to develop plans for economic recovery. […]
November 1, 2020

Insider Q&A: Why US economy needs more aid from Washington

WASHINGTON — The U.S. economy is expected to rebound from a disastrous spring. Paralyzed by the coronavirus, economic output collapsed at a 31.4% annual pace […]
November 1, 2020

Election could move California further left on taxes, race

LOS ANGELES — Tuesday’s election will test the boundaries of California’s left-leaning politics as a new generation of state voters is being asked to roll […]
November 1, 2020

Google ad costs, not its alleged monopoly, irks businesses

NEW YORK — When asked about Google, Bryan Clayton voices a familiar lament among small business owners. “You keep getting squeezed further and further down […]
November 1, 2020

Trump admin funds plasma company based in owner's condo

WASHINGTON — When the Trump administration gave a well-connected Republican donor seed money to test a possible COVID-19-fighting blood plasma technology, it noted the company’s […]
November 1, 2020

The Latest: Australia has no local case 1st time in months

CANBERRA, Australia — Australia has recorded no new locally transmitted coronavirus infection for the first time in five months. In Melbourne, the capital of Victoria […]
November 1, 2020

A woman died of coronavirus on a plane. Her fellow passengers were never notified.

When Spirit Airlines learned that a Texas woman had died of covid-19 on one of its flights in July, the airline said it alerted the […]
November 1, 2020

As pandemic raged and thousands died, government regulators cleared most nursing homes of infection-control violations

At the outset of a looming pandemic, just weeks after the first known coronavirus outbreak on U.S. soil, the woman responsible for helping to protect […]
October 31, 2020

Minnesota reports 20 COVID-19 deaths, 3021 new cases

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota health officials reported 20 COVID-19 deaths and over 3,000 new infections on Saturday. Both infections and deaths from the virus have been […]