Let’s be frank: No one understands what’s happening in the labor markets right now. It’s unnerving to hear experts and pseudo-experts on CNBC and elsewhere projecting authority while uttering disconnected
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“Call me,” the text read. “People need to understand what’s happening down here.” It was summer 2020, and all of Minneapolis was on the razor’s edge. I didn’t call. Then
It’s not clear what Donald Trump’s Federal Transit Administration knew about Southwest Light Rail’s construction trajectory when it required the Met Council to double the project’s contingency budget from $203
If you want to understand why Southwest Light Rail is likely delayed several years beyond its last anticipated opening date, make a visit to Park Siding, an obscure park on
Suddenly, Minnesotans are flying again. In May, passenger boardings at MSP Airport grew to 62 percent of pre-pandemic levels, according to the Metropolitan Airports Commission. Here's what you missed in
Over the next two months, large employers will finish formulating, communicating, and executing plans for post-Covid return to work. For downtown Minneapolis—currently 70 percent below its normal level of worker
The Chambers Hotel at 9th and Hennepin in Minneapolis has reopened and rebranded following an ownership change in winter. The hotel is now under its third owner, New York-based MCR,
TCB already publishes a column called “Open Letter,” so this is not an open letter, but perhaps consider it an email. Marked urgent. It is a message to Minneapolis’ corporate
A growing sense in Congress that insufficient controls and unintended consequences are making a mockery of its efforts to soften the pandemic’s economic blows may doom desires to provide additional
In the last year, I’ve edited and read more copy than a person should that foresaw the end of the office, a permanent change in all work. And boy, it
Sun Country Airlines on Tuesday announced a significant fourth quarter expansion to nine new markets via a total of 18 new routes. Most notably the airline announced its first scheduled
Editor’s Note: Since this article went to press on March 29, there have been several developments: • WCCO Radio parent Entercom Communications announced a corporate rebranding as Audacy Inc. Audacy.com
It’s no surprise that the local hotel scene has suffered in the pandemic. Every hotel ecosystem in the country has. But the Twin Cities had the distinction of the worst
In the office suite at 1 Twins Way (and in various home offices), Minnesota Twins staffers are feverishly redistributing season ticket holders around the ballpark to accommodate Covid-19 strictures. The
In this issue we present a fascinating article about the state of Minnesota’s hospitals. It’s a story about hospital capacity and the response to the pandemic, but it is, in
It’s been a year, huh? When we set out in late 2019 to identify the TCB100, we saw a 2020 defined by an election and a booming economy. And for
Budget season is coming to an end for most of us; it involved a lot more guesswork than usual, I’m sure. 2021 is the ultimate black box of black boxes,
One Sunday morning in the late 1970s, Dave Mona performed a live audition of sorts for a 25-minute radio show built around sports columnist Sid Hartman, because ’CCO farm director
In 1991, when Canadian med student Andrew Badley arrived at Mayo Clinic as a resident in internal medicine, he had no thought that 30 years later he would still be
When the St. Paul Saints moved to CHS Field, the team’s Co-Founder and Chairman Marv Goldklang noticed something different about their games. “At Midway [Stadium] by the seventh inning people