Strong month for Midwest manufacturers – StarTribune
Steelworkers at oil refineries hunker down for long strike – Houston Chronicle
Illinois Gov. Rauner pivots on medical pot, grants licenses – Chicago Tribune
Apartments fuel construction boom in Milwaukee – Journal Sentinel
Floating armories in the Gulf of Oman, a solution to piracy – WSJ
This year's Super Bowl ads went heavy on the sentimentality – TIME
Google prepares to get into ride-hailing, face down Uber – Bloomberg
Radio Shack ponders a shutdown, talking with Amazon, Sprint – Bloomberg
Shakeup in Samsung's mobile division – WSJ
Very cool light painting of dinosaurs, other creatures – WIRED
Dry winter in Minnesota "affects bottom lines" – Brainerd Dispatch