On St. Patrick’s Day 2020, Bahram Akradi, founder, chairman, and CEO of Life Time, sat in his corner office surveying the company’s Chanhassen campus. The parking lots were empty, the
Staff’s archive
A panel of arbitrators rejected a maneuver by Timberwolves/Lynx owner Glen Taylor to invalidate the purchase of the teams by entrepreneur Marc Lore and baseball great/investor Alex Rodriguez. The arbitration
It’s about to get very cold, or at least cold by recent standards. Sometime this month many of us will ask ourselves why we live here in January. Which got
One of the holes in a very vibrant Twin Cities live music scene is the lack of a sizable outdoor amphitheater. It’s a need that was recognized half a century
The Minnesota Timberwolves’ hiring of Tim Connelly in summer 2022 as president of basketball operations was nothing if not audacious. The organization had rarely made such moves, almost never took
When Amtrak’s new Borealis train from St. Paul to Chicago debuted in May, early ridership data were so strong it set off waves of attention. Borealis became the transportation fashion
In October, the Star Tribune launched its Local News Fund, a charitable fund under the umbrella of the Minneapolis Foundation. The endeavor puts the newspaper into a new niche of
It was an open secret in the Twin Cities that longtime Minnesota Twins president/CEO Dave St. Peter was planning a gradual exit from the team he first joined back in
It’s been a summer of overwhelming levels of roadwork, especially in the city of Minneapolis. Linden Hills, 50th and France, Hennepin Avenue in Uptown, Hennepin Avenue by Loring Park, Hennepin
College admissions have evolved into one of the costliest, more byzantine exercises of the teen years. More teens are applying to college than ever and applying to more colleges per
In the last half-decade, college athletics has been upended by lawsuits and court rulings that have pushed the NCAA to allow student-athlete compensation from outside entities (known as Name-Image-Likeness or
I was listening to Henry Lake on WCCO last night. He was taking a listener call about the Pohlad family’s announcement they intend to sell the Minnesota Twins after 40
When the Four Seasons Hotel opened in downtown Minneapolis two summers ago, it was counting on a certain mix of revenue. But business travel and events were in structural decline,
Restaurants first came under the microscope about a decade ago, during the #MeToo period. They were identified, fairly or not, as an industry where hot-headed chefs degraded and exploited workers.
A decade ago, TCB took a 10,000-foot look into Sun Country Airlines, which had new management and was looking for growth and profitability. The then-32-year-old carrier had spent most of
The Metropolitan Airports Commission (MAC) announced Thursday that it has begun work on an expansion of Terminal 2 that will bear fruit this fall with two new gates followed by
Last weekend’s nascent Minnesota Yacht Club Festival brought roughly 35,000 people to downtown St. Paul’s Harriet Island both Friday and Saturday. The event was well-reviewed from a music and sound
On May 21, Amtrak debuted a second train in the St. Paul–Chicago market. Initial ridership was encouraging, prompting a wave of media attention turning all sorts of supposition into fact,