Bobby Carroll, a janitor at the University of Massachusetts Boston campus, is a symbol of America’s working stiffs.
He turns 63 on Christmas Day. He makes $51,000, which doesn’t go far in a city like Boston. If he can hang on for two years, he an retire with a nice pension and health insurance that will help him deal with his mental illness. Read more →
Millennials and veterans: What would it take to get you to move to Wisconsin? Read more →
There is no law in Minnesota that says an employee of the state can’t live half a continent away and work remotely, but Fox 9 says it’s been stymied in an attempt to find out how pervasive the practice is. Read more →
Miltona, Minn., (pop. 408) is the latest small town to lose its small grocery store and some people in town are none too happy about it. But the people in town are primarily responsible for the closing. Enough of them decided to shop at the big-box retailers instead. Read more →
Papa John’s, the official pizza joint of the National Football League, reported this morning that same-store sales increased only 1 percent, while analysts expected it to increase 1.3 percent. Apparently, .3 percent is the toll that the NFL player protest is having on the company. Read more →
Americans are not particularly financially literate, and that may be a help to Republicans who are trying to get a tax “reform” package through Congress.
We tend not to save for retirements and with the proposed lowering of the contribution limit to $2,400 for 401(k) plans, that’s not going to be a situation that’ll improve. Read more →
Residents of a 30-unit apartment complex are being thrown out because too many police calls came from residents there. Not all residents, probably, but everyone goes because the city has yanked the rental permit of the building owner. Read more →
Minnesota is not going to get Amazon to establish its second headquarters in the state. The only people who think it will seem to be from Minnesota. Read more →
Aaron Rodgers, the Green Bay Packers quarterback, is one of Wisconsin’s economic engines.
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The celebration of the eelpout usually involves a fair amount of drinking and trashing the ice on Walker Bay on Leech Lake.
But in recent years, there’ve been plenty of indications local authorities have tired of the mess. And this year the Cass County Sheriff’s Office restricted vehicle access on the ice, which angered the festival attendees who insisted the ice was plenty safe. Read more →
The differences between the cities and suburbs are fading away. Cities are the new suburbs. And suburbs are the new cities. Read more →
The vision of high-paying jobs building airplanes was too tantalizing for public officials and now they’re paying the price.
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It’s always a risk talking about the possibility of a coming recession because they’re such emotional things.
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Let’s give credit where it’s due in the story of Madison Bue, 11, of West Salem, Wis., who is saving for college by flipping houses. What a kid, eh? Read more →
Open a Walmart in town, see a spike in crime. That’s the upshot of an analysis by the
Woodbury Bulletin and Rivertown Media, which analyzed police calls in six cities in the east metro and found a disproportionate response to Walmart compared to other stores, such as Target. Read more →
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