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Small Business

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2012

    Small Minneapolis company plays large role in Facebook's IPO

    Minneapolis/St. Paul Business JournalChris Meyer's small Mpls company served as a case study in Facebook's IPO.​In Facebook's IPO, CM Photographics, a small Minneapolis wedding photography company, served as a case study of how advertising on the social network can benefit mom-and-pop businesses. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2011

    Beaujolais Nouveau is coming: Here's where to celebrate like the French

    All Beaujolais is not nouveau, bit it's a reason to have a good timeNovember 17! Mark your calendar. The third Thursday of November is the traditional debut of the world's freshest, least pretentious wine: Beaujolais Nouveau. One of the best places to celebrate this year may be at the Jeune Lune Ev ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 1, 2011

    US Bank President Richard Davis to disillusioned country: "Get over it"

    The 99% protested US Bank President Richard Davis' speech.​US Bank President Richard Davis addressed the 1% at a Minnesota Chamber of Commerce luncheon this afternoon while the 99% protested outside. The "Golden Boy of Wall Street," as the New York Times recently dubbed him, was there to discuss ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 27, 2011

    Google politely asks Minnesota's small businesses to get a website

    Google: Still a twinkle in Minnesota small business owners' eyes.​Google, one might think, has this whole internet thing figured out. And Minnesota, one might think, is a technologically sophisticated state, wired from corner to corner.As it turns out, Minnesotans have a lot of room to grow in ter ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 6, 2011

    Dragon Festival

    Google: Still a twinkle in Minnesota small business owners' eyes.​Google, one might think, has this whole internet thing figured out. And Minnesota, one might think, is a technologically sophisticated state, wired from corner to corner.As it turns out, Minnesotans have a lot of room to grow in ter ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2011

    Taste of Edina brings seventy wines, twenty beers and eighteen food offerings to Centennial Lakes

    Get a taste of Edina.​Started as a vehicle to showcase the fine restaurants of the Southwest Suburb, the Taste of Edina has grown over the years to include many, many fine quaffs from the City of Edina's Liquor Stores. Chosen by Store Director, Steve Grausam, seventy wines, twenty beers and eighte ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 26, 2011

    Lunch at Lucia's honors the gastronomic French meal

    The home of the gastronomic meal.​UNESCO, in all its wisdom, added the gastronomic meal of the French to its list of intangible world heritage back in November, along with Croatian gingerbread, a Peruvian scissor dance, and the hopping procession of Echternach from Luxembourg. In all, 46 new eleme ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2010

    Michele Bachmann caught spreading tax lies on "Good Morning America"

    Bachmann vs. Stephanopoulos: No contest.​Never letting the facts get in the way of a good soundbite, Michele Bachmann's been caught with her pants on fire by PolitiFact again. George Stephanopoulos, on "Good Morning America," asked her why it was okay for the wealthy to get tax breaks, but no ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 11, 2010

    Autumn Drussell loses editor job for confessing big box store love

    ShironekoEuroSay something the advertisers don't like, lose your job.​The wall protecting editorial content from advertising concerns is looking a little shaky at the Stoughton Courier Hub in Wisconsin.In July, the weekly paper's new editor, Autumn Drussell, wrote an editorial announcing that she ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 7, 2010

    East Harriet RoseFest

    ShironekoEuroSay something the advertisers don't like, lose your job.​The wall protecting editorial content from advertising concerns is looking a little shaky at the Stoughton Courier Hub in Wisconsin.In July, the weekly paper's new editor, Autumn Drussell, wrote an editorial announcing that she ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2010

    Minnesota corporations' free speech released from bondage

    ​Today a federal judge struck down a state law banning corporations from spending on political advertising, endorsements, and other campaign activities, on the grounds that the law violated the First Amendment rights... of corporations.The decision, by Judge Paul Magnuson, relies on the U.S. Supre ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 21, 2010

    Our Country's Good

    ​Today a federal judge struck down a state law banning corporations from spending on political advertising, endorsements, and other campaign activities, on the grounds that the law violated the First Amendment rights... of corporations.The decision, by Judge Paul Magnuson, relies on the U.S. Supre ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2010

    "Impeach Obama" billboard: Another bad idea from Wisconsin

    A lawyer representing the company readily admits the President Barack Obama has done nothing impeachable.

  • Calendar

    February 3, 2010

    Something New: An Independent Wedding Fair

    A lawyer representing the company readily admits the President Barack Obama has done nothing impeachable.

  • News

    January 20, 2010

    The 10 most influential lobbyists in Minnesota

    Meet the invisible hands behind some of the state's biggest bills

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2009

    Yelp declines Google's $550 million acquisition offer

    Drat! We were hoping the Google folks might help solve the Yelp's problems with anonymous reviews...

  • Calendar

    August 26, 2009

    Woodbury Days

    Drat! We were hoping the Google folks might help solve the Yelp's problems with anonymous reviews...

  • Calendar

    July 15, 2009

    Uptown Market

    Drat! We were hoping the Google folks might help solve the Yelp's problems with anonymous reviews...

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2009

    Finally! First Republican officially announces run for governor

    Former state Rep. Bill Haas of Champlin said today he will officially run in the gubernatorial race.

  • Calendar

    May 13, 2009

    LynLake Street Fest

    Former state Rep. Bill Haas of Champlin said today he will officially run in the gubernatorial race.

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2009

    Trader Joe's and me

    Robert Lilligren had quite a week. One he won't forget, unless he has a two-buck-chuck bender this weekend.

  • Calendar

    November 19, 2008

    How I Learned to Drive

    Robert Lilligren had quite a week. One he won't forget, unless he has a two-buck-chuck bender this weekend.

  • Blogs

    August 28, 2008

    Minneapolis: A Great Place to Get Rich

    Robert Lilligren had quite a week. One he won't forget, unless he has a two-buck-chuck bender this weekend.

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2008

    U.S. Chamber of Commerce gets revenge on Al Franken

    Robert Lilligren had quite a week. One he won't forget, unless he has a two-buck-chuck bender this weekend.

  • Calendar

    October 17, 2007

    Alyson Hagy and Ben Percy

    Robert Lilligren had quite a week. One he won't forget, unless he has a two-buck-chuck bender this weekend.

  • Blogs

    April 9, 2007

    Not Working on the Railroad

    Robert Lilligren had quite a week. One he won't forget, unless he has a two-buck-chuck bender this weekend.

  • Blogs

    November 15, 2006

    Mayor Coleman lays out living wage ordinance

    Robert Lilligren had quite a week. One he won't forget, unless he has a two-buck-chuck bender this weekend.

  • News

    August 17, 2005

    Assume the Crash Position

    The turbulence at Northwest Airlines has some people fearing the sky is falling. It could be the sound of ticket prices dropping.

  • News

    June 29, 2005

    Pawlenty Budget Reams Health Care Funding

    Once again, MNCare would take the biggest hits

  • News

    May 11, 2005

    Mark Kennedy's Cure For Cancer

    Senatorial hopeful takes gutsy stand in favor of mall-walking fundraiser

  • Blogs

    May 8, 2005

    Balking for the cure

    Senatorial hopeful takes gutsy stand in favor of mall-walking fundraiser

  • News

    March 9, 2005

    Minnesota's Corporate Tax Drain

    The state's biggest companies are finding ways to get around corporate taxes

  • News

    March 31, 2004

    Wage Wars

    One state senator's fight to raise the minimum wage

  • News

    October 29, 2003

    Resident Alien

    Ms. Reiter goes to St. Paul

  • Books

    December 20, 2000

    Deck the House

    With icicle lights and a plastic baby Jesus?

  • Books

    November 29, 2000

    Have We Got a Deal for You!

    City Pages solves the Twins ballpark conundrum

  • Books

    October 27, 1999

    The Steel Ceiling

    Despite a "good-faith effort," Hennepin County's new jail is being built by a bunch of white men

  • Books

    November 11, 1998

    You Make Me Blush

    City officials call Minneapolis's numbers on minority contracting "an embarrassment." So what are they doing about it? Uh, well, gosh...

  • News

    December 3, 1997

    Accounting Day for the Taxman

    Hundreds of taxpayers, many of them small-business owners, are out up to $20,000 each because authorities didn't feel obliged to point out that people were calculating their taxes under an outdated law.

  • News

    May 28, 1997

    Out of Africa

    FINCA's average Third World loan is just $190, while here seed money can run to thousands of dollars, says program head Kim Hunter.

  • News

    March 12, 1997

    How Little Asia Was Born

    Bad city planning in the late 1970s led inadvertently to Nicollet Avenue's rebirth as the most vital ethnic

  • Books

    January 29, 1997

    Skyway to Hell

    Bad city planning in the late 1970s led inadvertently to Nicollet Avenue's rebirth as the most vital ethnic

  • News

    November 20, 1996

    New Kids on the Block

    A nonprofit group called Urban Ventures is making moves along the long-depressed Lake Street corridor--and polarizing some of the people who live there in the process.

  • News

    October 9, 1996

    CLINTON WATCH

    Clowntime in Connecticut

  • News

    November 15, 1995

    Let Them Eat Fruit

    Clowntime in Connecticut

  • News

    November 1, 1995

    End Notes

    Clowntime in Connecticut

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