Minnesota's largest public companies are up 19 percent since the beginning of the year.
Year-to-date Two-year
total return* total return*
Bloomberg-Star Tribune 100 index 19.0 % -22.9%
Standard & Poor's 500 17.8 -27.5
Russell 2000 14.0 -27.0
* Through Monday's trading Source: Bloomberg News
Just as Lawrence Kazmerski, a top official at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, was about to give the keynote address at the University of Minnesota's annual E3 conference at the RiverCentre in St. Paul, the lights went out, bathing the audience in darkness and a deep sense of irony.
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