Rep. Keith Ellison was in Turkey and Saudi Arabia over the last week with a delegation of business leaders, including the head of the Minnesota Trade Office. Ellison praised Turkey as a Muslim country that has a successful democracy, and he also said business relations between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia continue to improve.
Independence Party gubernatorial candidate Tom Horner got a double dose of good news over the weekend. The Star Tribune’s editorial board wrote a glowing opinion of Horner’s candidacy, and though it stopped short of endorsing him, the paper left little to the imagination about its pick for Nov. 2. Then, this morning, former Gov. Arne Carlson endorsed Horner’s candidacy.
The Obama administration has made it clear it wants to ramp up the use of renewable energy like wind, solar, biomass and geothermal energy. But while utilities see green energy as a major growth prospect, they’re grappling with how to install and pay for lines to move energy — especially wind energy — to where it’s needed.
The marketing for Target’s Kaleidoscopic Fashion Spectacular, the retail giant’s official launch of its fall clothing line, has become hijacked by people upset with Target’s donation to MN Forward, a Republican-run independent expenditure committee that has endorsed gubernatorial candidate Tom…
Rep. Keith Ellison is sponsoring a bill that would break up banks deemed too big to fail. The bill, the Safe, Accountable, Fair, and Efficient Banking Act of 2010, would set the limits on the size of deposit holdings that a bank can have.
The United States Chamber of Commerce awarded Rep. Michele Bachmann its “Spirit of Enterprise” award on Tuesday. “I’m so glad to have the Chamber supporting my efforts,” Bachmann said following the…
A $78.5 million dollar federal plan to keep Asian carp from becoming established in the Great Lakes is drawing criticism from diverse groups that say the proposed temporary closure of the locks in Chicago area canals will disrupt the economy without stopping the spread of aquatic invaders.
Rep. Collin Peterson, chair of the House Agriculture Committee, was one of the more successful negotiators during last summer’s climate change debate, winning big concessions for some of the nation’s largest polluters in the name of…
In a move set into motion by a planeload of passengers’ overnight stay on the tarmac at Rochester Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, the U.S. Transportation Department has ordered airlines to limit such runway waits to three hours.
A University of Minnesota bioethics expert says new conflict-of-interest rules now under review won’t be enough to prevent another embarrassment of riches like the $1.2 million a med school prof earned from Medtronic. The “U” only learned of
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