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- AI is too important to fear, too powerful to use carelessly
Great letter to the editor from MnTech CEO Joel Crandall . I think we will see some form of AI legislation, if not at the Federal level at the State level, and technology…
- A chaotic confrontation, a gun and 10 shots: A frame-by-frame analysis of the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti
Very detailed analysis of the fatal interaction between Alex Pretti and ICE agents. Well done to the team at the Star Tribune.
- Pearl Jam helps pay for Zamboni for Two Harbors, Minnesota
I love this.
- Minneapolis' SPS Commerce makes second $200M acquisition in six months
- Telehealth remains popular, does not add cost or lower quality of care, report finds
Sharing this mostly because the Doctor highlighted is a friend and neighbor of mine! Hey Steve! 👋🤩
- Minneapolis neighborhood turkey's death embodies challenges of urban wildlife
The saga of the dead turkey in our neighborhood continues.
- Turkey beloved in Kenny neighborhood of south Minneapolis dies after vehicle strike
This turkey used to stand roost in the middle of the street just a few blocks from our house. We were sad to hear it had been hit by a vehicle. How many turkeys make the…
- New SPS Commerce CEO Chad Collins aims for expansion beyond Minneapolis
Brief highlight from Chad Collins , our new CEO!
- 'Unconventional' Lutsen cabin built for two is a Home of the Month winner
- Tech leader Archie Black, a master on building buy-in during change
- SPS Commerce names Chad Collins as its next CEO
- Justice Department finds pattern of discriminatory policing in Minneapolis
- Yes, Taylor Swift shimmered in Minneapolis. You were even better, Swifties.
- Retiring CEO Archie Black on why he had to improve as a leader for today's SPS Commerce
Great interview with our CEO Archie Black on his retirement and reflecting on his 22 years leading SPS. The company, which went public during Black's helm, has had a remarkable…
- After two decades and more than 2000% revenue growth, SPS Commerce CEO is retiring
Our CEO Archie Black has announced his plans for retirement after 22 years of leading SPS Commerce . Particularly love the photo from our tech floor. I've learned so much from him…
- Star Tribune names former Google exec Steve Grove as publisher
I was surprised to see Steve Grove announced as the next publisher. It is an interesting pick, and I'll be very curious to see how Grove brings his digital expertise to the…
- Why can Edina quickly plow its streets, but Minneapolis can't?
We lived in Edina for three years and the snow removal is impressive. This article highlights why this is so much harder for cities. The short answer: cars parked on the street,…
- Minneapolis tech firm Code42 lays off 15% of workforce
Another local tech firm doing layoffs. Also in Business Journal .
- Ukrainian mom keeps daughter safe in Minneapolis as husband fights Russians at home
Touching personal account of Nataliia Kuchma and her daughter living in Minneapolis as a refugee of the war in Ukraine. 🇺🇦
- Ukrainian farmers make stop in Minneapolis and appeal for help | Star Tribune
In Weekly Thing #213 I shared my reflections from being to Ukraine many times, including this comment. Most people in the midwest are just a generation or two off the farm. My…
- With $287.6B in revenue, UnitedHealth again tops list of Minnesota public companies
Good reference list. SPS Commerce in 44th position.
- Edina latest suburb to roll out homeowner surveillance camera program | Star Tribune
- Let's put the Christianity back into Christian politics | Star Tribune
- Event featuring teachers crawling for cash prompts apology
If only to be in the meeting where folks convinced themselves this was a good idea. 🤦♂️
- After 35 years, Uptown Minneapolis mainstay Kitchen Window to close - StarTribune.com
I have taken dozens of cooking classes at Kitchen Window and have over the years even gotten to know the folks that run the place. It is very sad to see the store closing. It is…
- Star Tribune wins Pulitzer for George Floyd reporting; Darnella Frazier also cited - StarTribune.com
Fabulous to see the excellent reporting by our local newspaper on the murder of George Floyd being recognized with a Pulitzer.
- Target halts sales of trading cards in stores after customers fight in Wisconsin - StarTribune.com
Okay people, stop losing your damn minds! 😲
- A Dayton brother tackles a new horizon, efficiency in philanthropy - StarTribune.com
Thanks to Dan Frankowski I connected with Constellation Fund a bit over a year ago. Dan thought I would find their data-driven approach compelling, which I did. This is a quick…
- Schafer: How a St. Thomas professor helps execs learn 'historical recovery' - StarTribune.com
Some great background here on how SPS is working to Reduce System Racism! Williams started his work at SPS Commerce with the eight top executives of the company. All of them did…
- About 90K sex abuse claims filed in Boy Scouts bankruptcy | Star Tribune
I was a Cub Scout, a Webelo, and a Boy Scout. I went to some Jamborees. Earned the Arrow of Light . I haven't been following this sex abuse story and the Boy Scouts closely but…
- Industry leader says e-commerce changes at retailers is here to stay | Star Tribune
Great interview with Archie Black about the incredible rate of change in the retail industry.
- City Pages is closing, ending the era of alternative weeklies in Twin Cities | Star Tribune
While I haven't read the City Pages regularly for years, I still feel a connection with this brand. City Pages is where you found out where all the punk rock shows were in…
- Legendary columnist Sid Hartman dies at 100 - StarTribune.com
Hartman was a sports legend in the Twin Cities. I once bought two seats in the press box for a Vikings Game from him at a charity auction. What an amazing life and career.
- Minnesota nonprofits plead for more help as hunger crisis surges - StarTribune.com
Many people are struggling and need help, all around us. The bold highlight is mine. Second Harvest Heartland now distributes three times the amount of food a day, boosted the…
- Leadpages taps Jeanette Dorazio, a software veteran, as new CEO | Star Tribune
Jeanette and I worked together at 8thBridge. Awesome to see her taking over at Leadpages! Congratulations! 🙌
- Let's provide a 'pod' for every Minnesota learner who needs one | Star Tribune
This looks like a fabulous program to help those most in need get help with tools and resources to make distance learning work better.
- National Guard called out after police shoot Black man - StarTribune.com
- Minn. family's grief grows after funeral leads to an outbreak of coronavirus - StarTribune.com
- Nashville out of MLS is Back after 9 players test positive - StarTribune.com
This doesn't bode well for sports returning during Pandemic. Nashville is the second team to withdraw from the tournament. FC Dallas had to pull out after 10 players and a coach…
- Third Precinct in Mpls. served as 'playground' for renegade cops - StarTribune.com
This article paints a very bleak picture of the Third Precinct. These and more substantiated incidents, detailed in court records and police reports, help explain a saying often…
- How did Minnesota become one of the most racially inequitable states? | Star Tribune
Updated reporting and data from the Star Tribune on a number of critical race disparities in Minnesota. Myers contends that the large gap is largely due to special benefits made…
- Minnesota's high-tech trade group is letting go of the 'high' | Star Tribune
Small, but important and well-done modernization of name for the Minnesota Technology Association.
- Minneapolis closes beaches, pools and programs for entire summer | Star Tribune
This makes total sense given the pandemic, but it’s a real gut punch.
- Edina High School student boarding school bus hurt in hit-and-run crash | Star Tribune
This happened just a couple blocks from our house. I had driven down that road not more than 30 minutes before on my way to work. They did locate the car , in Mankato!
- New Minnetonka restaurant's deep-fried burger is like eating at State Fair year-round | Star Tribune
Only in Minnesota! 🤪
- How Pamela Park became the epicenter of east Edina's teardown trend | Star Tribune
Pamela Park is where we just moved, into one of these new developments. We are on the East side of the park though.
- Bikes, culture and a North Loop joint in the middle | Star Tribune
I used to go to One + One nearly every day for coffee when I worked in the warehouse district.
- Twin Cities-based movement gives retired men a place to talk, give back and feel valued - StarTribune.com
This seems like a perfect Minnesota thing. The Men’s Sheds motto: “Men don’t talk face-to-face. They talk shoulder-to-shoulder.” Actually, isn't this just ice fishing but without…
- Shortage of skilled workers challenges Twin Cities tech firms - StarTribune.com
Snapshot of the exceedingly difficult talent environment for companies in the Twin Cities area. The Twin Cities added 3,300 technology jobs last year, up 1.6 percent to 199,200.…
- Amazon to hire additional 200 people for Mpls. tech office - StarTribune.com
- Plymouth police: Husband's kidnapping, ransom was a hoax - StarTribune.com
This cracks me up in so many ways. $140 fake ransom? 🤷🏼♂️
- Fast-growing Code42 software could be a public company within a couple years | Star Tribune
Bold plans for local Twin Cities tech company Code42, makers of Crash Plan.
- FBI: 'Improvised explosive device' caused blast at Bloomington Islamic center | Star Tribune
I just get more and more worried about us as a society. Terrible act of violence.
- Turning a page: Leadpages co-founder Collins taps his own CEO successor - StarTribune.com
Big changes at one of the more widely known startups in the Twin Cities.
- Long-awaited St. Croix bridge is feat of engineering, political will - StarTribune.com
I've seen this bridge recently and it’s very nice looking. It strikes me as something that will immediately become part of the normal, even though it was fought and argued for…
- Working hard or hardly working? Loons have GPS device that tells all | Star Tribune
Interesting insight into some of the telemetry sports teams get off players. I’m sure this is absolutely the most basic stuff out there, but it made me think of what the data…
- Local educators get big response on Kickstarter for computing game | Star Tribune
Fun writeup on Turing Tumble in the Star Tribune.
- Minnesota's biggest employers have a real need for skilled hands and minds - StarTribune.com
Minnesota's aging workforce has tightened the current job market near its "full potential," meaning nearly one job for every applicant. If trends continue, by mid-2018, there will…
- Cookie dough craze comes to Minnesota with not one, but two food trucks - StarTribune.com
The cookie dough craze that started on the East Coast and has taken social media by storm has finally worked its way to Minnesota. A safe-to-consume version of the stuff everyone…
- Broadband competitor US Internet to expand into southwest Minneapolis | Star Tribune
- Target makes big push into soccer marketing - StarTribune.com
Minnesota United coach Adrian Heath, left and Sporting Director Manny Lagos. In a multipronged partnership, Target will announce Thursday that it has signed a three-year deal to…
- Minneapolis tech firm SPS Commerce gets retailers through busiest month of online orders - StarTribune.com
The squiggly-line graphs on the monitors that line the fifth floor of SPS Commerce’s downtown Minneapolis headquarters provide a snapshot into the volumes of online shopping…
- Outage that led to mass cancellation of flights cost Delta $100M - StarTribune.com
Delta Air Lines reported Friday a $100 million hit to its revenue caused by the system outage last month.
- Cargill execs moving out of Lake Minnetonka mansion
But after calling the sylvan manor on Lake Minnetonka home since 1946, Cargill’s honchos will move down the road a bit to the company’s sprawling main office complex, an…
- At 70, legendary Minnesota nature photographer Jim Brandenburg shifts focus
- At Buzzfeed, a week off to do something different - StarTribune.com
In a tech company perk-if-not-quite-tradition called a "hack week," the media company gave all its developers time to work on their own ideas, aiming for something that might…
- SPS Commerce buys Canadian data analytics firm ToolBox Solutions - StarTribune.com
SPS Commerce Inc. said Wednesday it bought ToolBox Solutions, a Canadian data analytics firm, for about $23 million in cash and stock.
- Telling hundreds of stories: Star Tribune photos of the year - StarTribune.com
Our staff photographers have gathered their favorite images from the past year.
- 'Distracted walking' puts pedestrians in peril - StarTribune.com
For the first time this year, the National Safety Council added cellphone-distracted walking to its data of unintentional deaths and injuries. The council found that between 2000…
- Schafer: Target still trying to catch up after mistaken Web strategy - StarTribune.com
This little episode may yet turn out be a rounding error in Target’s annual results. Yet once again it raised a question that’s long intrigued me, and that’s how different the…
- Minnesota sauna enthusiasts stoking revival of steamy tradition - StarTribune.com
The 612 Sauna Society has almost 500 members, most from Minnesota, many of a millennial generation that is lighting a fire under this ancient tradition. On Nov. 27, they’re firing…
- St. Paul set to announce today that MLS is coming to town - StarTribune.com
- St. Paul dad creates Father's Eve to celebrate role of fathers - StarTribune.com
The first Father’s Eve fundraiser event will take place Saturday at O’Gara’s Bar and Grill. Francis hopes to raise at least $10,000 for charities, but he also hopes to raise the…
- Large companies: SPS Commerce plays the fun factor - StarTribune.com
“Our CEO and our chief technology officer were just geeking out about it. They were so excited,” said executive assistant Stephanie Braegelman. “We like to have fun here.”
- St. Anthony: Code42's business 'move' is focused growth with an eye to an IPO | Star Tribune
Code42 has been hailed as the hub of the Twin Cities modest software development industry by regional economic development czar Michael Langley. At the same time there is…
- Schafer: New arrival in region is looking for people | Star Tribune
A $100 million-plus software company called Arcserve has just chosen Minnesota and will be moving in December into new headquarters in Eden Prairie, overnight becoming one of the…
- The craft coffee movement is brewing in Twin Cities - Star Tribune
Local craft coffee makers are moving away from the typical cup of joe.
- Dan Carr, champion of innovation, is leaving The Collaborative
- A final piece of pie from Peters Grill in downtown Minneapolis - StarTribune.com
Sad to see Peter's closing it's doors. One of the photos in the slides shows me and friends having a final lunch. Nice quote from my friend Nick. In a place where quick-service…
- Power lines tangled in trees creating disruptions; 44K still lack power - StarTribune.com
One of the two fields that the B-Squad plays on each Wednesday night. Sinkhole right at the shortstop position. Right where I stand often. A sinkhole developed in the infield of a…
- Target deploys prolific group of social-media gurus to win over consumers - StarTribune.com
Target joins a growing wave of companies using social media to plug products. Before launching its initiative last year, Target had been increasingly aware of the clout that…
- Coffee perfection rides the Third Wave
Change has come to your neighborhood coffee shop. Maybe you've heard the names: Kopplin's, Dogwood, Angry Catfish, Urban Bean, Bull Run, Blue Ox.
- Biggest Boy Scout group in Minn. to stay inclusive
Ira is a friend of mine. Nice to see him in this article and taking a strong position. The rest of the article is infuriating and highlights how far society has to go on gay…
- Cutting-edge home is simply serene
- In Roseville, Big Data meets the cloud
Good article about what Symantec is doing in the data backup space. Interesting that we have Symantic doing this on the established side, and CrashPlan (Code42) doing this on the…
- Professionals find new way to network
If you can have a discussion, or even utter coherent sentences, with another person while your spinning your doing it wrong. But for those looking to sweat a bit more, spinning is…
- The state of technology in Minnesota
Last year saw larger venture capital financings go to health care IT players like RedBrick Health and Ability Network, as well as nanotech pioneer Cima NanoTech. We also saw $3…
- Humphrey terminal reopening after suspicious bag led to evacuation
How would you go about keeping a population of people willing to trade liberties for security? You would likely want to randomly spread news of potential threats, drive peoples…
- 8thBridge launches new Facebook marketing tool
The new tool, called Graphite, lets customers use new verbs such as want, need, or have to describe their relationships to various brands. For example, if a customer viewing a…
- Senate: Deadly force OK anywhere | StarTribune.com
The Minnesota Senate voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to allow gun owners to use deadly force virtually anywhere they feel threatened -- a step that would dramatically expand gun…
- Alexander: Who controls your Facebook page if you die?
But my niece contacted Facebook without obtaining permission from us, and requested that my daughter's Facebook page be placed in memorial status. She was able to do this without…
- There's more than one way to meet Santa
The little tykes at Children's Hospital of Minneapolis talking to Santa online represented another group of kids who often miss out on the Santa experience. Nevaeh Belker, from…
- Problems hit tech accelerator
- Nightlife: A bolder Urban Bean | StarTribune.com
- The Mini stretches its legs | StarTribune.com
- Rimage 2.0
Rimage's CEO wants to reinvent the maker of CD machines, but some shareholders want the company's stash of cash.
- A corporate 'Angie's List' could help small firms
The Itasca Project aims to introduce qualified small companies to Minnesota's major corporations.
- Bridging the gap from social media to online commerce
Minneapolis start-up 8thBridge is expanding its pioneering efforts to bringing e-commerce to Facebook and other social media sites.
- Surly brews up plan for $20 million expansion
Already known for making audacious beers, Surly Brewing Co. unveiled bold plans Monday for a $20 million facility that would house a restaurant and beer garden, and could make it…
- James J. Hill Reference Library to launch business incubator
The library will turn 10,000 square feet of office and floor space into working areas for growth companies and related service providers and also offer training programs online,…
- Project Skyway: A leg up for tech start-ups
- Project Skyway: A leg up for tech start-ups | StarTribune.com
- 2010: The year in review
- Recession-born Fusion Room is coming together
Fusion Room specializes in "enterprise interactive" development for creative agencies and clients. It builds on the expertise Muhammad and Ahmed have gained in running ILM, a…
- Armed lawmaker stopped by police in Highland Park
- Star Tribune names new senior VP for digital
Congrats to my friend Jim! RT @bernardjim: I start a new job running digital at the Star Tribune next week!
- Artist reaches new peak with Bloomington mural
Artist Erik Pearson likes to do big paintings. His best-known work, a piece seen by hundreds and perhaps thousands of people each day, required 13 gallons of primer and about 25…