Minnesota credit unions claim that they're withstanding the recession and the real estate bust nicely, thank you. Now they want to lend to capital-hungry small businesses. Banks beg to differ.
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Marvin Windows and Doors won't change its "premium" identity in response to a punishing market.
Minnesota's largest developer and owner of multifamily housing is able to finance apartment projects that other developers can't by negotiating the red tape of tax credits.
Regional auto glass installation and collision repair firm ABRA has suffered a little in the recession—but not enough to shatter its expansion plans.
News bits from around Minnesota.
It’s gotten harder and harder to sit down and enjoy a nice, juicy venison steak. Used to be you bought a license, threw on blaze orange, and tromped into the
The Fargo-based firm restructures itself for greater efficiency- and has doubled in size, extending its geographic and professional reach.
Long before Tom Petters and Bernard Madoff, a Minneapolis entrepreneur hatched a monumental scheme that built a landmark- and landed him in prison.
The U's new technology could cut the cost of product development in half.
Twice, my friend Lisa has tried to teach me to make risotto. The first time, I drank a glass of wine while watching her stir things into a pot. This
Frog legs are, for me, like veal or endangered bluefin tuna. First, I harbor a weird affection for frogs that I suspect goes back to Sesame Street. Second, I’ve become
Bruce Hendry's latest adventure in distressed assets.
How Holy Land is expanding and rejuvenating commercial corridors in Minneapolis.
37 Minnesota health care experts offer insights into repairing a broken system.
To name a restaurant Saffron is to conjure associations of the rare and precious. Like natural pearls and golden caviar, saffron is expensive—about $150 an ounce. But the name also
TCB's undercover job candidate, Jack Gordon, comes back -wounded, but still sardonic- from a month on the executive job-search Web sites.
A distant dream just a handful of years ago, high-speed passenger rail lines appear much closer to being built, thanks to the Obama administration's financial support. But will enough travelers use a Twin Cities–Chicago route to make it feasible? Is 110 miles per hour really all that fast?
By focusing on innovation -even with technologies developed outside its walls- General Mills keeps pace with a grocery industry hungry for more new products.