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The economic horrorscape: Zombie banks, ghost cities and retail crypts

By Chris Steller | 02.17.09 | 2:59 pm

If headlines about the recession look scary, look around: There’s an emerging economic horrorscape across the land, a twilit scene of zombie banks, retail crypts and ghost cities that’s seeming less otherworldly and more familiar by the day.

Media Monitor: Foodie site launches as blogs test funding ideas

By Paul Schmelzer | 02.17.09 | 12:32 pm

Amid budget woes that have pinched City Pages’ online budgets, area blogs are test-driving new ideas — from a new foodie site by a laid-off City Pages restaurant critic to a tech-blogger’s pay-per-post microfinancing plan to “Content Partnerships” at City Pages’ 2008 local blog of the year.

Brauer: Strib’s Kersten, Coleman to lose columns

By Paul Schmelzer | 12.15.08 | 2:58 pm

MinnPost’s David Brauer, who has documented the financial woes at the Star Tribune better than anyone, writes that a memo went out at the paper today revealing that the paper’s conservative and liberal columnists, Katherine Kersten and

Media Monitor: The all-Strib edition

By Paul Schmelzer | 05.05.08 | 4:53 pm

bombshell about the Star Tribune “failing to meet its debt obligations” and teetering “on the brink of bankruptcy,” has brought a quick