The Business Agenda, my linky round-up of Minnesota company news for MinnPost.com, is now on Twitter. You can follow @BizAgenda for alerts to new blog posts, as well as a hand-picked mix of retweets and bonus links covering name-brand Minnesota companies like 3M, Target, Best Buy, Medtronic, General Mills and others. The past week or [...]
Wells Fargo found itself in unflattering company when the Treasury Department cleared 10 major banks — but not Citigroup, Bank of America and Wells Fargo — to repay TARP funds awarded in the fall. But observers say that probably does not signal anything significant about Wells’ financial condition. (Read story here…)
Stillwater is best known as one of the state’s early logging towns, but it was also one of the state’s first brewing centers. Now a group of longtime home brewers is trying to bring back a piece of that history by going pro with their hobby. Lift Bridge Brewery began a few years ago when [...]
I’ve agreed to participate in a Public Relations Society of America panel discussion later this month on how to pitch to freelance journalists and others like myself who write for multiple publications. I end up wearing quite a few different hats to make ends meet, and I imagine that makes me a confusing target to [...]