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The value of small business

By John Kolstad , The Bridge

Small, independent businesses have a vital role to play in Minnesota and the Twin Cities. They provide more than half of the employment all across the USA, according to the Small Business Administration (SBA.) During the Clinton recovery in the 1990’s, small businesses created 85 percent of the new jobs, while the Fortune 500 had negative job growth. A survey of Hennepin County businesses in the 1990s, and a recent study of Minnesota businesses by the Minnesota House Research Service, showed that 90 percent of new jobs are in small businesses. MORE »

Articles we are working on

By Mary Turck , TC Daily Planet

December 1, 2008 – We are working on stories on:

• Jordan Area Community Council
• Minnesota Court of Appeals appellate mediation project
• What’s happening to the 3M property in Dayton’s Bluff?

If you have information, anecdotes, or ideas about these stories, we want to hear from you — email editor@tcdailyplanet.net MORE »

Things People Say

Advise and Dissent: Bethany Gustafson

By Emily Bright , TC Daily Planet

What would you like to tell president-elect Barack Obama? Advise and Dissent features Minnesota opinions on what the new president should be thinking and doing.

Mr. President-elect, because you were elected on the hope for change, I ask you to seek advice from a wide variety of people, to look to people who have experience as well as to new voices outside of Washington and outside of the corporate establishment. MORE »

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THEATER | "White Sheep of the Family," a sharp farce at Theatre in the Round

By Dwight Hobbes , TC Daily Planet

You’re not going to find a stronger theater company in the Twin Cities than the Theatre in the Round Players, and they’ve done it again, mounting yet anotther first-rate production. The White Sheep of the Family, by L. du Garde Peach and Ian Hay, is a splendidly written, sharply directed, beautifully acted farce you’re going to rush home and tell family, friends—pretty much anyone who’ll listen—all about. MORE »