Brooks Johnson

1 week ago | thebrunswicknews.com | Brooks Johnson

By Brooks Johnson, The Minnesota Star Tribune Years ago, Robyn Munsch would wander hungrily around the grocery store and leave with calorie-dense foods like a frozen pizza, cookies and frosting. That was before she started taking Wegovy and lost 85 pounds. "I no longer buy chips, sweets or other junk foods," the Rochester, Minnesota, woman said. "I just don't crave it. It's life-changing."

1 week ago | miamiherald.com | Brooks Johnson

Years ago, Robyn Munsch would wander hungrily around the grocery store and leave with calorie-dense foods like a frozen pizza, cookies and frosting. That was before she started taking Wegovy and lost 85 pounds. "I no longer buy chips, sweets or other junk foods," the Rochester, Minnesota, woman said. "I just don't crave it.

1 week ago | startribune.com | Brooks Johnson

The current WNBA contract expires in October, and players opted out of the final year of the contract. Salaries should rise in the next contract after the league signed an 11-year, $2.2 billion TV and streaming deal last summer. By contrast, the NBA has a season twice as long as the WNBA and a new media rights deal of $76 billion that fuel minimum salaries of more than $1 million.

2 weeks ago | mankatofreepress.com | Brooks Johnson

The Wisconsin-based sanitation services company that hired minors to clean slaughterhouses has lost another contract at a Minnesota meatpacker. Quality Pork Processors (QPP) in Austin, Minn., recently notified Fortrex it is hiring another company to sanitize the pork plant. “The unforeseen business circumstances related to Quality Pork Processors’ decision to immediately cease [ Fortrex] operations at its plant is not something that we anticipated,” the company wrote in a letter to employees.

2 weeks ago | startribune.com | Brooks Johnson

By Brooks Johnson Tammy Mead of Cloquet runs a Facebook group with nearly 300,000 members where GLP-1 users share recipes. She has seen a big embrace of protein shakes, powders and bars that she worries will keep folks hooked on convenience. "This has become a niche in the food market, marketing to people that are focused on protein," Mead said.