DeBlog: Covering OccupyMN
We've been covering the OccupyMN "occupation" for 10 days now. But viewers are starting to question: What's the point?
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We've been covering the OccupyMN "occupation" for 10 days now. But viewers are starting to question: What's the point?
Look no further than Nevada -- and this swing voting city -- to understand why President Barack Obama may not win re-election next fall.
From the rise of China to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the revolutions of the Arab Spring to foreign aid for Pakistan, the Republican Party's presidential hopefuls are framing their foreign policy positions against the backdrop of America's crippling debt and high unemployment.
The economy in nine Midwest and Plains states will likely continue to grow at a slow pace with little chance of another recession, according to a monthly survey of business managers released Monday.
The economy needs to be fixed. On this, Democrats and Republicans agree. They part ways over how to do it and, specifically, what role the federal government should play.
President Barack Obama faces a long re-election campaign having all but given up on the economy rebounding in any meaningful way before November 2012. His own budget office predicts unemployment will stay at about 9 percent, a frightening number for any president seeking a second term.
An economist says an August economic survey in nine Midwest and Plains states suggests slow to no growth in the region, but not a return to recession.
Gov. Mark Dayton is bringing his statewide jobs tour to southeastern Minnesota.
When we go to the mall, the labels most of us look at have to do with size and style. But what about where the merchandise comes from?
Republican congresswoman Michele Bachmann says that if she's elected president "it won't take that long" for her to turn around the ailing economy.
By now, most Americans have probably heard the worst-case scenarios with hitting the debt ceiling: a dipping dollar, loan difficulties, a jump in interest rates. So, how likely is a worst-case scenario?
Western states hit hardest by the housing crisis are feeling the greatest economic stress two years after the recession ended, according to The Associated Press's monthly analysis.
Fire chiefs who head volunteer departments in the Twin Cities metro area say their ranks are being depleted by the economy.
Growing energy prices combined with weather-related supply problems has slowed economic growth in nine Midwestern and Plains states, according to a new monthly survey released Friday.
Last-minute shoppers will be hitting the stores this week and picking up gifts for fathers, husbands, grandfathers and sons.
Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty pitched an economic plan Tuesday that includes deep cuts in personal and business taxes to spur the struggling U.S. economy but would add to deficits in the short term in the hope that badly needed jobs would follow.
Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty is planning next week to detail how he would balance the federal budget and reshape the nation's tax code.
A survey in nine Midwestern and Plains states suggests that exports are helping fuel regional economic growth.
A no-new-taxes philosophy guided Tim Pawlenty's budget approach as Minnesota governor. Accounting tricks, a well-timed infusion of stimulus money from Washington and word games kept the Republican mostly on that course.
Minnesota's unemployment rate edged down a tenth of a percentage point to a seasonally adjusted 6.5 percent in April, though the state lost 5,200 jobs -- a decline officials said was largely because of poor weather.
On Wednesday evening, hundreds of people will come together to recognize the achievements of the Minneapolis Urban League at the 2011 Gateway To Opportunity Gala.
The long-pursued proposal to allow casino-style gambling at Minnesota horse-racing tracks finally got a hearing Thursday in a state House committee, but is showing little momentum just over two weeks from the end of the legislative session.
A survey in nine Midwestern and Plains states suggests that higher fuel prices are slowing the regional economy.
Regulators on Friday shut down a total of six banks in Alabama, Georgia, Minnesota and Mississippi, boosting the number of U.S. bank failures this year to 34. There were 157 bank closures in 2010 amid the shattered economy and piles of bad loans.
Four teams are vying for the top spot in the Frozen Four -- Notre Dame, University of Minnesota-Duluth, North Dakota and Michigan. There's another winner that's not on that list -- St. Paul's economy.
