Evan Ramstad
Deputy Business Editor and Columnist at The Minnesota Star Tribune
business columnist @startribune; likes kimchi fries, sundubu, mapo tofu, lefse, steak.
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1 week ago |
startribune.com | Evan Ramstad
Three days before she was killed by an assassin targeting Minnesota Democrats, Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman told me she thought work in the Legislature was becoming harder because Republicans were more concerned with the culture war than economics. I interviewed Hortman, the DFL leader in the Minnesota House since 2017, and House Speaker Lisa Demuth, who has led Republicans in the House since 2023, separately by phone last Wednesday for a column published this weekend.
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2 weeks ago |
startribune.com | Evan Ramstad
In the end, moderation again prevailed at the Minnesota State Capitol as the Legislature wrapped up the state budget in a one-day special session last week. Do not, however, conclude Minnesota is free of the drama and irrationality overtaking America under President Donald Trump. This is one of the farthest states from the southern border and one of the least affected by the wave of undocumented immigration from 2021 to 2023.
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2 weeks ago |
startribune.com | Evan Ramstad
John Hoeschen would like to preserve St. Paul Corner Drug so another independent pharmacist can eventually buy it, continuing the neighborhood fixture he joined nearly 40 years ago. But first, he had to let go of one vestige of the past: the store's soda fountain. On Saturday, Hoeschen invited neighbors for one last round of ice cream and a final farewell to the fountain. More than 100 people stopped in for a final scoop.
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2 weeks ago |
buff.ly | Evan Ramstad
Readers also had a lot to say about noncompete agreements, bonding bills and lawsuits. The Minnesota Star TribuneTariffs always roll downhill, like work no wants to do that’s sometimes expressed with a four-letter word.
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3 weeks ago |
startribune.com | Evan Ramstad
Tariffs always roll downhill, like work no wants to do that's sometimes expressed with a four-letter word. Some readers thought I forgot that bit of business gospel in my May 19 column defending Walmart against President Donald Trump's admonition that the world's largest companyshould "EAT THE TARIFFS." Trump's criticism came after Walmart executives said during their quarterly earnings call they would eventually raise prices because of his new tariffs.
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