State of the Cities

St. Paul's sleepy downtown has seen a recent surge of life, thanks to new restaurants, bars, entertainment options, and, perhaps most significantly, an influx of market-rate apartments and condos. But the business landscape has...

Oh, Amazon. Is there any part of life that Amazon hasn't taken over? Long gone are the days of Jeff Bezos walking books from his garage to the mailbox; Amazon has become virtually synonymous...

Warehouse District, Minneapolis, Friday night. Taxis pull up to the curb, stopping alongside drunken bar hoppers, bachelor and bachelorette partiers, locals and late night revelers laughing and talking in groups, engaging in the long Minnesota goodbye,...

Back on March 25, 2015, Major League Soccer commissioner, Don Garber, announced Minnesota United FC as the league's 23rd club and added that it would be led by a group headed up by former UnitedHealth...

Have you been over by Ridgedale lately? Across the street from TCF Bank and Wells Fargo, there is a new building that stands out quite a bit from the rest of the area. The Residences at 1700...

Generation Z, or anyone born after 1995, are a multi-ethnic, gender-fluid generation; a generation that balances progressive views with old-school values. These are kids raised during a recession by parents continually stressed about steady income and secure finances,...

Memes are running rampant across the internet. So rampant, in fact, that advertisers have gotten in on the game, slipping in products and plugs wherever they can. Does this mean, then, that the death...

Craigslist is just one of those things that never ceases to amaze. It's so versatile. Tickets, trinkets, home rentals -- if you can think of it, you can probably get it on Craigslist. Don't...

Mystery Science Theater 3000 is an odd show. But that's what makes it so successful. The premise, in which a captured human Joel (originally played by creator Joel Hodgson) is forced to watch terrible B...

Two cities. Two distinctly different downtowns, only 10 miles apart. There are those who would call for the two cities to simply merge and be done with it. Even...