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AM.MN: Who forgot Medtronic?

By Chris Steller | 09.22.09 | 8:30 am

am.mn logoDon’t let health care reform put a new tax on med-tech companies. That was the message of a letter sent last week by a bipartisan group of Minnesota members of Congress to U.S. Sen. Max Baucus, chair of the…

AM.MN: Eight hundred cities, a thousand cuts

By Chris Steller | 09.10.09 | 8:30 am

am.mn logoThere are a thousand stories in Minnesota’s 850 cities — and in most of them, it seems, City Hall is laying someone off. Winona is cutting its library director along with the school liaison officer and 10 others.…