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Riders in black honor victims of recent bike deaths

By Chris Steller | 10.04.08 | 4:23 pm

Dressed in black and wearing orange armbands, hundreds of bicyclists took to the streets of Minneapolis, St. Paul and several suburbs for two 14-mile memorial rides in honor of four local cyclists killed last month in collisions with motor vehicles.

Two more guilty pleas in free-landscaping ring

By Chris Steller | 05.09.08 | 1:14 pm


Two former executives from Kraus Anderson, the company that built former UnitedHealth Group CEO Bill McGuire’s Gold Medal Park in Minneapolis, have pled guilty in federal court to avoiding taxes on free landscaping at their homes.…

Hole poked in Golden Parachute Park

By Chris Steller | 03.22.08 | 8:54 pm

Something hasn’t felt right, even from the beginning, about Bill McGuire‘s Golden Parachute Park — sorry, Gold Medal Park — the gentle, genteel, zigguratish mound that the ex-UnitedHealth CEO built as a gift to the…