Twin Cities Business
Escalators are an ongoing headache for property owners says Mike Salmen, managing principal of the Twin Cities office of Transwestern. “They’re frequently out of commission,” he says. On the other hand, “stairs don’t usually break.”
Economic Vitality in Greater Minnesota
International Falls will get an increase of $153,000, which it uses it for essential services like paying police officers and funding the public works department. In Mower County, an increase of about $255,000 will go into the county’s general fund.
Metro
Boomers tended to show a preference for suburbs as they approached their 30s. Not so for subsequent generations.
National
Minnesota lawmakers and other advocates for a more open relationship with the island say the Trump administration’s approach moves Cuba policy backwards.
Metro
Cycling gender gaps are attributed, variously, to notions that women don’t feel as safe biking in traffic or being exposed on the street as men; are expected to adhere to a higher standard of put-togetherness at work; or are more often responsible for shuttling kids around, which makes biking more difficult.
New Americans in Greater Minnesota
Chavez-Cruz, a first-generation American, left the Twin Cities for the College of St. Scholastica. As a Latino, he felt different in Duluth and missed his extended family, but soon five of his siblings and cousins took the leap as well.
MNopedia
Minnesota was the only state in which strikers faced criminal charges for preventing people from working.
Economic Vitality in Greater Minnesota
Willmar and other Minnesota towns want to attract professionals, young families and others who might be looking for an alternative to the suburbs.
Politics & Policy
Both parties in both capitals claim to be for rural broadband development. That doesn’t mean the problem’s getting solved quickly.
Economy
A study looking at tax incentives for businesses in 32 states found they rarely paid off, and usually made the states’ financial situations worse.
MNopedia
By 1982, 49 percent of the 11,000 farmers in Minnesota with Farmers Home Administration (FmHA) loans were in delinquency, and more than 300 farms faced foreclosure.
National
The bill would ease the tax burden involved in selling a manufactured home park.
Economy
Teenagers have been rejoining the workforce since the Great Recession, but the share of teens in the workforce hasn’t rebounded to early 2000s levels.
