Vikings

A KSTP/SurveyUSA poll conducted last week found that a plurality of Minnesotans want a combination of budget cuts and an increase in taxes to fix the historic $4.8 billion deficit now facing legislators and the governor. What’s more, Minnesotans said they’d like wealthier taxpayers to shoulder the burden.

Star Tribune publisher Par Ridder released a statement in April about the lawsuit his former employer, the Pioneer Press, leveled against him, saying he was “absolutely confident we will prevail.”

But in the first day of hearings over a temporary injunction that could keep Ridder and other former PiPress executives from working at the Strib for [...]

Requesting anonymity, a source close to the Star Tribune submitted this reflection on the $45 million sale of four blocks of the paper’s Warehouse District property to the Minnesota Vikings:
Last month Publisher/CEO Par Ridder went to a meeting of Strib circulation executives in a conference room named for Charles A. Freeman, one of the best-loved [...]