Business

The for-profit Tin Fish operates on tax-exempt Minneapolis parkland near Lake Calhoun; it will pay $7,983.44 in property taxes this year. The for-profit Kelber Catering operates in the tax-exempt Minneapolis Convention Center; it does not pay property taxes. MORE »

If you’ve never had a run-in with a collection agent, consider yourself lucky. Either you’ve paid your bills on time, no one’s noticed that you haven’t, or your claims made it safely from the doctor to your insurance company. For those of us who have picked up the line and found a bill collector on the other end, it’s likely been an encounter we’d rather avoid. Collectors can be quite insistent, often compounding the shame of facing debt and being asked for money we don’t have. MORE »

Some farmers see a tractor as they are. Others see tractors as they wish them to be. In the blue, brackish diesel exhaust of a 1970s-era row crop Hefty-G, Laura Frerichs and Adam Cullip heard silence and made it so. MORE »

Back a couple of decades an American president thought it was either good politics or a novel way to deregulate the airline industry and started firing air traffic controllers. Legend has it that an overworked controller at Atlanta’s busy airport couldn’t handle the stress and walked off the job. His last message to the circling pilots was:

“Y’all be careful up there, y’hear!” MORE »