Business weekly features

Updated: December 21, 2012 - 4:18 PM

Below are features that run each week in the Star Tribune Business section.

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Selling homebuyers on city living

By JIM BUCHTA, Star Tribune December 22, 2012, 04:52 PM

A real estate broker found an innovative way to help potential buyers envision downtown life.

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Collin Peterson: Fighting to pass a farm bill

By JIM SPENCER, Star Tribune December 22, 2012, 04:38 PM

The ranking minority member of the House Agriculture Committee describes maneuvering that has delayed the bill.

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TCF a takeover target? Maybe, but not quite yet

By NEAL ST. ANTHONY, Star Tribune December 22, 2012, 04:32 PM

Deutsche Bank analyst Matt O'Connor released a research note last week in which he named TCF Financial Corp. a potential acquisition target.

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Energy-efficient makeover marks milestone for audio-visual firm

By DON JACOBSON, Star Tribune December 20, 2012, 05:34 PM

Milestone AV Technologies said revamping the old Department 56 building it occupies was good for business.

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Inside view: Lisa Dongoske

By Star Tribune December 20, 2012, 05:31 PM

Executive vice president of occupier and investor services at Cushman & Wakefield/NorthMarq

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Hot property: Piccadilly Square Housing

By Don Jacobson, Star Tribune December 20, 2012, 05:29 PM

Piccadilly Square Housing 70 Mahtomedi Av., Mahtomedi

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Ask the consultant: Can letting employees work remotely lead to success?

By Star Tribune December 16, 2012, 12:21 PM

With today's technology, can a business run successfully with employees working remotely?

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Mergers and acquisitions

By Star Tribune December 16, 2012, 11:39 AM

Mergers and acquisitions involving Minnesota companies that were announced in the past week.

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Business bankruptcies

By Star Tribune December 16, 2012, 11:34 AM

This is a list of recent business-related bankruptcies filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Minneapolis and St. Paul.

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Midwest Insider Trading

By Star Tribune December 16, 2012, 11:30 AM

ALLETE INC.

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Movers & shakers: Melissa Harrison, Allee

By Star Tribune December 16, 2012, 08:54 AM

A look at the people behind the numbers in area business.

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Business people

By Star Tribune December 16, 2012, 08:47 AM

A listing of who's on the move and winning awards.

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In search of low-salt cheese

By MIKE HUGHLETT, Star Tribune December 15, 2012, 01:36 PM

A researcher at the University of Minnesota takes on a challenge in food science.

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Bookshelf: 'The Pirate Organization'

By Star Tribune December 15, 2012, 01:36 PM

Pirates get bad press, or so Rodolphe Durand and Jean-Philippe Vergne conclude in their short history of the profession. Pirates are not marauding egotists who prize only bullion and rum, argue the two French professors; they are in fact heroic risk-takers who defy the excesses of capitalism and the tentacles of state control. Modern Blackbeards are hackers and gene-tinkerers. They will come to change capitalism for the better, Durand and Vergne think, as pirates often do.

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Gadgets: Modern megaphone helps iPad to shout

By Star Tribune December 15, 2012, 01:36 PM

Usually the way to get louder sound out of your iPad is to buy a music dock, which is a speaker and amplifier combination that typically costs around $100 or more.

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Hot property: Bill’s Superette & G-Will Liquors

By Don Jacobson, Star Tribune December 13, 2012, 11:29 PM

Bill's Superette & G-Will Liquors N.E. corner, Lake Drive & Main Street, Lino Lakes

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New use for old mill offices

By DON JACOBSON, Star Tribune December 13, 2012, 06:12 PM

Ceresota Mill building was converted to Class B office space years ago but has struggled. Now it will become apartments.

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Inside view: Arne Cook

By Star Tribune December 13, 2012, 06:09 PM

Senior vice president of the Excelsior Group

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Inside Track: Bringing a fitness center to the North Side

By NEAL ST. ANTHONY, Star Tribune December 08, 2012, 09:33 PM

North Minneapolis chiropractor Tara Watson, who has operated her own business for nearly a decade, plans to expand through an Anytime Fitness franchise, next-door to her clinic at the rebounding commercial hub of W. Broadway and Penn Avenue N.

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