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If Ryan strikes a Star Tribune land deal for Wells Fargo, keep your eye on...
Wells Fargo — the San Francisco-based banking giant whose name already graces an iconic downtown Minneapolis tower — could be the tenant for a Ryan Cos. development on four Star Tribune blocks near the...
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Fighting for relevance, 1500 ESPN shuffles lineup
1500espn.comPhil Mackey and Pat ReusseIn the Twin Cities sports radio wars, 1500 ESPN has always been a bit like Nate Silver competing with a carnival barker. The Hubbard-owned station is heavy on...
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Fall 2012 radio ratings: What’s going on with talk?
I alluded to this in yesterday’s 1500 ESPN analysis, but the fall radio ratings indicate all six talk stations in the Top 20 — WCCO, MPR News, KFAN, NewsTalk, MyTalk107 and 1500 — are down a little or...
View ArticleJeff Dubay hired as 1500 ESPN co-host
Jeff Dubay’s personal rehabilitation is a work in progress, but his professional rehabilitation is complete. Friday afternoon, 1500 ESPN hired him to co-host with Judd Zulgad 9 a.m. to noon — the same...
View ArticleIn a massive winter power outage, how would Minnesotans heat their homes?
I didn’t really plan to buy a home with an “octopus boiler” — a cast-iron leviathan whose asbestos-encrusted tentacles writhed through my basement. You could open what was once a coal hatch and peer...
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Return to the U: The Confession
Sauron’s ring had nothing on mine.Both were made of gold, but a Dark Lord forged the Hobbit’s, and a loving dad bought mine. Still, it burned just the same.One of the joys of a long writing career is...
View ArticleAmy Koch media saga: Who did what and when
It wasn’t really front-page news that, 13 months after the fact, former Minnesota Senate Majority Leader Amy Koch blamed fellow GOP legislators for publicizing damaging details about her affair with...
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Karma’s knife-twist: I have to take freshman comp
First, thanks to all you non-graduates and late-late-graduates who responded to “Confession,” the inaugural column in the “Return to the U” series. It was refreshing to learn how many journalists...
View ArticleStar Tribune CEO fights Dayton’s business sales tax
Star Tribune reporters and editors are covering Gov. Dayton’s sales tax plan knowing it threatens pay raises and possibly newsroom jobs.Calling Dayton’s plan “jaw-dropping,” Strib publisher Mike...
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In the classroom at 53, amid the freshmen
So what’s it like inside the classroom? Somehow, this 53-year-old senior wound up in two classes composed entirely of freshman.I’ve already told the story of being forced into freshman comp; but on...
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