October 17, 2020

Construction accident kills one person, injures another near Litchfield

One person was killed and another critically injured Friday when a construction truck boom fell near Litchfield, according to the Meeker County Sheriff’s Office. The […]
October 17, 2020

Cuomo: Movie theaters in NY can open Friday, with limits

NEW YORK — Movie theaters in New York state can reopen beginning next Friday with restrictions on audience size and other precautions in place, Gov. […]
October 17, 2020

Federal appeals court upholds Kentucky abortion law

A federal appeals court has upheld a decades-old Kentucky law requiring abortion clinics to have written agreements with a hospital and an ambulance service in […]
October 17, 2020

Metro Transit training helps to fuel a Twin Cities family's drive

Kira Young moved in 2000 from Gary, Ind., to Minneapolis to join relatives and pursue better job prospects. Young was an Army veteran and a […]
October 17, 2020

Starbucks ties corporate diversity to executive pay

Starbucks plans to significantly boost racial diversity among its workforce — and it’s making that goal a factor in the pay of its senior executives. […]
October 17, 2020

Nervous about how election may affect the stock market? It pays to revisit some basics

The most frequent investment question 401(k) participants are asking these days is about the upcoming U.S. presidential election and its effect on the financial markets. […]
October 17, 2020

Job losses for high earners hit the economy. For low-wage workers, they hit home

If so many people are out of work and on the edge of eviction or foreclosure, how come we are not seeing more evidence of […]
October 17, 2020

How to offset low interest rates in retirement? Plan on some sort of work

So much is going on in the U.S. these days that you might have forgotten by now that the Federal Reserve announced several weeks ago […]
October 17, 2020

Class of 2019 borrowed less, report finds

The average debt among undergraduate students with loans in the class of 2019 is $28,950, according to a new report from the Institute of College […]
October 17, 2020

Dems would provide digital platforms a needed 21st century makeover

The rumbling of antitrust action against the digital super platforms continues. Earlier this month, the House of Representatives released a report detailing its conclusions on […]