Rising 16% to $27 billion last year, Minnesota’s diverse economy delivered. A healthy debate about Minnesota’s business climate continues amid the din of an unusually active legislative session in St. Paul. Through it all — and despite a worldwide pandemic and war — Minnesota’s ...

No one wants to throw cold water on people’s spirits, especially when the weather is as unpredictable as it is in March. But this reminds us of the critical warning that goes with observances that center on socializing. Don’t drink and drive. This year’s day being a Friday ...

U.S. Sens. Sherrod Brown, D-Cleveland, and J.D. Vance, R-Cincinnati, are cosponsors of an important piece of legislation that would impose both new regulations for the railroad industry and financial consequences for breaking them. The Railway Safety Act of 2023 may have been inspired by a ...

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine did not catch the West’s intelligence agencies unaware. But no one in Washington or Europe anticipated the scale at which they would need to provide Kyiv with arms and munitions. ... The most pressing need in Ukraine is the supply of 155mm howitzer shells, which ...

Bus trip tripped up THUMBS DOWN: A special bus trip to the Minnesota State Capitol to lobby legislators on the crisis in nursing homes had to be canceled for Monday. It is Sovreignty Day at the Capitol, and all legislators will be in a mandatory joint session of the House and Senate so ...

He seems to have abandoned “Jim Crow 2.0,” but that was the extent of the nuance in President Biden’s political remarks Sunday in Selma, Ala. He was there to commemorate the anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” the 1965 brutality against a civil-rights march at the Edmund Pettus Bridge. ...