During R.T. Rybak's 12-year tenure, Minneapolis has paid down $241 million in debt and cut spending by 16 percent.
Archive of: April 2013
Museums are finding new ways to engage the public, in person and online.
New and expanding iron mining and processing facilities are popping up all over the Range. But is there demand?
Governor Mark Dayton focused on higher education and Capitol renovations in his $750 million bonding proposal, which also calls for Nicollet Mall to be reconstructed.
The high cost of feed ingredients fueled by a national drought was among the factors that caused Cargill’s third-quarter earnings to drop from $766 million to $445 million.
Musicians rejected the latest contract offer but then proposed a few amendments—just hours before management was scheduled to meet and discuss the organization’s future.
The ad agency will select its summer interns from a group of 13 finalists based on their ideas to revive the well-known brand.
A day after Attorney General Lori Swanson pressed for information at a hearing at the state Capitol, state lawmakers reportedly introduced bills that would place a moratorium on the sale of University of Minnesota hospitals to an out-of-state company.
A deal reached between Ecolab and the U.S. Department of Justice requires Ecolab to sell Champion’s chemical-management services for deep-water oil and gas wells in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico—which comprise about 3 percent of its business.
The Destination Medical Center compares favorably with Minnesota’s other publicly funded projects.
Use the underdog effect to become a top dog.
The North Dakota Supreme Court denied a request to reconsider its recent ruling, which deemed locked-out American Crystal Sugar workers eligible for unemployment benefits.
David Kaysen, president and CEO of Minnetonka-based Uroplasty, stepped down from his roles on April 5.
A Gallup poll found that 80 percent of adults living in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area feel safe walking alone at night; by contrast, 72 percent of residents in all 50 of the major metro areas studied reported feeling secure while taking a late night stroll.
Just months after being taken private, Caribou Coffee is closing 80 locations in several markets; its new owner, meanwhile, will convert another 88 locations into Peet’s Coffee & Tea stores.
The 30,000-square-foot facility is “focused specifically on fulfilling the needs of firearms enthusiasts,” and it will feature thousands of new and used guns.
The retailer said that calling the same style of dress in the exact same color “manatee gray” for the plus-size version and “dark heather gray” for standard sizes was an “unintentional oversight” that it’s working to fix.
Best Buy will house mini Samsung retail stores within all roughly 1,400 of its locations.