Business
Who is Trader Joe and why do Minnesotans care?
Tatiana Eletski and her son Misha were ecstatic at the opening of the new Trader Joe's in Minnetonka on November 6. Each of them had arms full of groceries, and Eletski informed me that her husband would be shopping at the store later that day to pick up some cheeses that he likes. Eletski said she loves Trader Joe because it reminds her of shopping in Europe, where they come from. "We can get the foods we are used to eating, like swordfish, and certain kinds of chocolate," Eletski said. She said she also loves the people that worked at the store. "They take care of you. They open your egg cartons and make sure that none are broken." MORE »
Made in MN 2009: Homegrown holidays
It's the time of year when people gather for holiday parties and receptions and to entertain. That means it is also time for Minnesota 2020 to renew its "buy local" campaign for the third year. A severe recession lingers despite some promising signs it may be bottoming out and a slow recovery may be starting. But "happy days" are not here again - at least not yet.
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Former Agriprocessors manager found guilty on 86 counts
A Sioux Falls, So. Dak., jury returned to the courtroom late Thursday afternoon and found former Agriprocessors manager Sholom M.MORE »
NEWS DAY | MN unemployment edges up to 7.6 percent
Minnesota's unemployment rose to 7.6 percent in October, the Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) reported this morning.MORE »
Local company creates Klingon dictionary
With the birth of his son 15 years ago, dedicated linguist d'Armond Speers embarked on the ultimate experiment: He spoke to him only in Klingon - the language of the alien race of "Star Trek" fame - for the first three years of his life.MORE »
Minnesota's small banks deserve credit for keeping entrepreneurship afloat
Given all that's happened on Wall Street, it is difficult to salute financial institutions for what they did leading up to and during the past two year's of financial crisis. That overlooks great work being done here in Minnesota and next door in Wisconsin for which salutes are in order.
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Ordinance amendment would allow more businesses to have music
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Ben Smith, owner of Glaciers Cafe, wanted to hire a singer or guitar player to ease the slow dinner hours. But because he didn't have 50 seats, the city said no.
Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century
I recently explored a fairly new building on the University of Minnesota campus. It covered a whole city block, and I was curious what departments were located there.
I entered and noticed these fancy letterings above several classrooms in the building: Deloitte. Classroom, Securian Classroom, Donaldson Classroom, 3M, Supervalu, Travelers, Wells Fargo, Int'l Dairy Queen, General Mills.MORE »
NEWS DAY | World/National news, 11/13/09 | Selling cheap, making money; Pakistan bombing
Selling cheap, making money During what the media now calls the Great Recession, WalMart has made big money as other stores falter and fail.MORE »
NACDI aims to transform Minneapolis Native American community
"We will return to our ceremonies, and we will gain back our strength and our values," said Justin Kii Huenemann, President and CEO of the Native American Community Development Institute (NACDI). "We are just at the beginning of this new prosperity." That, at least, is the prophecy that Huenemann learned as a young man and re-told to the October 22 American Indian Community Development Symposium. According to the prophecy, the Native people of North American (or Turtle Island) would endure seven generations of extreme hardship-- they would lose their language, turn away from their ceremonies and traditions, and experience terrible tragedies, death, and famine, but at the end of the seven generations, there would be a period of prosperity. According to the prophecy, it will take seven more generations to bring about the resurgence or culture, language, and strength to the Native American people in North America. MORE »
