By Max Ross | Monday, May 12, 2008

We are defined by the advertisements we see. More than ever marketers and corporations are gathering data on us. They keep tabs on the web pages we visit, track the purchase history of our credit cards, scan the contents of our emails, and then use this information to develop online advertising that targets individual consumers. All of this threatens our privacy, but we're complicit in aiding these advances.

By Casey Selix | Friday, May 2, 2008

Beginning in 2001 with a succession of name and ownership changes, the Dayton's department store disappeared from the local retail market scene. Since then, a retailer from St. Cloud, Minn., has been quietly attracting disaffected shoppers through its doors in the Twin Cities, prompting the question: Is Herberger's the new Dayton's? 

By Dave Beal | Tuesday, April 29, 2008

At a time when so many in the media are focusing on their own backyards, The Economist unrelentingly emphasizes global news and analysis and insists on not "dumbing down" information. The magazine's formula produces impressive results: a doubling of its circulation in the past decade and rising revenues that buck industry trends. On Wednesday, its editor-in-chief, John Micklethwait, will offer his perspective on factors affecting the world economy. 

Karl Pearson-Cater will be joining MinnPost.com as director of operations, MinnPost CEO and Editor Joel Kramer announced today. Read more...

By Kevin Featherly | Wednesday, April 16, 2008

If the proposed merger of Delta and Northwest airlines is approved, Northwest is expected to close its headquarters in Eagan. Northwest's multi-facility headquarters includes its executive suites, its analytics and pricing operations, and its training facilities, which all together employ some 2,500 workers. Eagan officials worry what the loss of the headquarters — and accompanying jobs — will mean to the city and the surrounding area.

By Dan Haugen | Tuesday, April 15, 2008

The boards of Delta and Northwest have agreed to join forces to become the world's largest airline. The new carrier will be called Delta and headquartered in Atlanta. What does the pending merger mean to passengers, the airlines' employees, shareholders, Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport and the local economy? National and local airline analysts offer answers.

By Scott Russell

Monday, March 10, 2008

When the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled in December that a nonprofit child-care center in Red Wing didn't qualify for a property tax exemption, it set off alarms among the state's nonprofits. At the heart of the matter is a simple but challenging question: How much public good does a nonprofit organization need to do to merit a tax break? Efforts are under way to clarify state law.

By Christina Capecchi

Monday, March 3, 2008

Anti-tech TV watchers have just one more year to enjoy their resistant ways. If they don't make the transition to digital TV by Feb. 17, 2009, their antenna-clinging TV sets will go black.

MinnPost.com's readership is growing rapidly. Over the past two weeks our average weekday traffic is almost 8,000 visits a day, an increase of about 30 percent compared with the same period in January, and more than 50 percent above December's traffic. During the past month, MinnPost.com has had more than 75,000 unique visitors. Read Joel Kramer's Editor's Note for more details.

By Dave Beal | Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2008

Richard H. Anderson is on course to become chief executive officer at a merged Northwest Airlines and Delta Airlines. It's a plan that would to combine the two companies into the world's largest air passenger carrier. Anderson, a familiar face in the Twin Cities and a longtime advocate of airline consolidation, is widely believed to be playing the lead role now in shaping the deal.