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Dave Beal

Dave Beal, a longtime business columnist for the Pioneer Press and former business editor there, will write about business and the economy. Beal was business editor at the Milwaukee Journal before coming to the Twin Cities and is a past president of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. He is co-author, with Fred Zimmerman, of the 2002 book "Manufacturing Works" and serves as treasurer of the Society of Professional Journalists' Minnesota Chapter and as a member of the Minnesota News Council's hearing board.

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Business

Does licensing occupations amount to protectionism?

By Dave Beal | 03/07/12

Experts argue that Minnesota's system of licensing individuals in scores of occupations hurts the state's economy.

Business

Corporate income tax study sure to intensify political deficit battle

By Dave Beal | 11/04/11
As a congressional supercommittee debates how to trim the nation's deficits, the report shows a wide disparity in tax rates paid by both Minnesota companies and the nation's largest firms.
Politics & Policy

Could Pakistan, one of the scariest places on Earth, get even scarier?

By Dave Beal | 10/14/11
Author John R. Schmidt, a foreign policy expert, fears it could become the world's first nuclear-armed jihadist state.
Politics & Policy

A manufacturing comeback as iconic Faribault Woolen Mill set to reopen

By Dave Beal | 09/15/11
Today’s grand opening of the Faribault factory — complete with a ribbon-cutting visit from Gov.
Politics & Policy

Minnesota's golden era of top credit ratings fades as uncertainty over fiscal disputes -- and future -- mount

By Dave Beal | 07/21/11
State officials, already burned by the loss of a blue-ribbon credit rating, now face the challenge of retaining their only remaining top rating.
Politics & Policy

Elizabeth Warren's consumer protection dream is following a rugged trajectory toward reality

By Dave Beal | 04/13/11
To counter criticism of the consumer bureau, she has embarked on a "charm offensive." Business groups, though, remain divided, such as Minnesota’s two banking groups.
Politics & Policy

Minnesota's public pension commission is in limbo as the work piles up

By Dave Beal | 03/25/11
The Minnesota Legislature's pension commission — the key screening group for shaping laws that govern the state's multi-billion-dollar pension system — hasn't functioned since August.
Politics & Policy

Can Tom Sorel, MnDOT's Mr. Fix-it, fill big financial hole facing Minnesota's transportation system?

By Dave Beal | 01/25/11
When Mark Dayton kept Sorel as transportation commissioner, it was a telling confirmation that things have changed for the better under his leadership.
Politics & Policy

MnDOT considering new strategies to deal with financial adversity

By Dave Beal | 01/25/11
Here are a few of the strategies Transportation Commissioner Tom Sorel and others are talking about to help MnDOT cope with its projected funding shortfall.
Business

Bullet trains to Chicago in less than three hours? High-speed rail alliance launches study

By Dave Beal | 12/20/10
The Midwest High Speed Rail Association is examining a plan that would promote the use of "bullet trains" — comparable to those in Europe, Japan and China that exceed 200 miles an hour — to link the cities.