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Eric Wieffering

Assistant Managing Editor | News

Phone: 612-673-1736

Eric Wieffering supervises coverage of local and regional news, including politics, education, the environment and other topics.
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Wieffering: Retailer tries to reconnect with its best customer

Mary, Larry wants you back.

Updated: November 30, 2011, - 09:33 PM

Downtown Minneapolis dropped off shoppers' list

Not much has changed about the Holidazzle parade since it first snaked its way down the Nicollet Mall in 1992.

Updated: November 30, 2011, - 09:24 AM

Wieffering: Now isn't the time to kill tax cut, benefits for jobless

Here's a topic to toss around the dinner table this Thanksgiving, even though it wades into the dangerous territory of economics and public policy.

Updated: November 25, 2011, - 10:23 AM

Four years after roof fell in, a few good signs

If Upper Deck made trading cards for countries, here's what the vital statistics for the U.S. economy would have looked like four years ago this month, on the eve of what we now call the Great Recession.

Updated: November 21, 2011, - 12:40 PM

Wieffering: Early store openings reflect new retail reality

Black Friday is no longer the busiest day of the holiday shopping season, but its event-like trappings -- 3 a.m. openings, time-limited sales available only in stores -- are vitally important in bringing people to the store and creating momentum for the rest of the season.

Updated: November 15, 2011, - 10:45 PM

Average debt of graduates

AVERAGE DEBT OF GRADUATES Four-year, public U. of Minn. Duluth $30,998 MSU, Moorhead $29,410 Winona State $29,123 Four-year, private MCAD $44,385 Crown College $38,042 Hamline University $36,339 Nonprofit Minnesota College of Art and Design Source:...

Updated: November 12, 2011, - 03:10 PM