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    February 15, 2019
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    Boundaries are important when responding to work communication after hours
    Zzz! It’s your iPhone, buzzing with a notification from work. Zzzzz! Your work email. Again. If you’re like most people, you may become...
    business17 hours 40 min ago
    Facebook. Bloomberg photo by Andrew Harrer
    Facebook to consider removing or demoting anti-vaccination recommendations
    As public pressure intensifies over how Facebook promotes misinformation about vaccines, the social media giant is considering removing anti-vaccination...
    business17 hours 54 min ago
    A worker monitors corn being loaded into an outdoor storage bunker at the Michlig Grain elevator in Sheffield, Ill., on Oct. 2, 2018. Bloomberg photo by Daniel Acker.
    Economic trends turn downward for farmers
    Things are not looking good for the U.S. farm economy. On Thursday, Feb. 14, the farm belt's malaise deepened after the U.S. Department of Agriculture...
    businessFebruary 15, 2019 - 10:13am
    February 14, 2019
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    Minnesota Power likely to seek rate increase
    Minnesota Power will likely ask state regulators to increase electric rates later this year, the Duluth-based utilities company announced Thursday...
    businessFebruary 14, 2019 - 6:59pm
    With petition, environmental groups continuing to fight proposed natural gas plant
    Environmental groups are asking Minnesota regulators to reconsider a decision to back Minnesota Power's proposed $700 million natural gas plant...
    business/energy-and-miningFebruary 14, 2019 - 3:56pm
    February 13, 2019
    A rendering of the planned Essentia Health campus along Superior Street. Courtesy Essentia Health.
    $184 million in state, local money again sought for Duluth medical district
    The billion-dollar private investment coming to Duluth's medical district could be getting a multi-million-dollar public boost. State Sen. Erik...
    business/healthcareFebruary 13, 2019 - 7:46pm
    February 12, 2019
    Evenson’s Hallmark store in Miller Hill Mall to close
    The Hallmark store in the Miller Hill Mall is closing. Owner Larry Evenson confirmed the closure to the News Tribune but declined to offer any details. The store — then known as Pam’s Hallmark — was set to close in 2016 by its former owner, Cindy Hedlund, but Evenson’s Hallmark...
    business/retailFebruary 12, 2019 - 7:20pm
    Essentia is moving its fitness center into the former Younkers space at the Miller Hill Mall. (file / News Tribune)
    Essentia moving fitness center to mall
    Essentia Health’s fitness and therapy center is moving to Miller Hill Mall, the health system announced on Tuesday, with better locker facilities,...
    business/healthcareFebruary 12, 2019 - 3:15pm
    Walz continuing Line 3 appeal
    The Minnesota Department of Commerce will continue to appeal Enbridge Energy’s proposed Line 3 oil pipeline, Gov. Tim Walz announced Tuesday...
    business/energy-and-miningFebruary 12, 2019 - 8:07am
    February 11, 2019
    Younkers at Miller Hill Mall (file / News Tribune)
    Essentia purchasing former Younkers store
    Essentia Health has purchased the former Younkers store in the Miller Hill Mall. In a statement, the health system said the acquisition would...
    business/healthcareFebruary 11, 2019 - 4:03pm
    California joined a half-dozen states in barring the use of a person’s gender when assessing risk factors for automobile insurance, a change that could potentially changes rates for scores of people. (Minh Uong/Copyright 2019 The New York Times)
    Gender can no longer be used to calculate auto insurance rates in California and other states
    California has become the seventh state to ban auto insurers from using gender as one of the factors that they can use to calculate the rates...
    businessFebruary 11, 2019 - 8:18am
    Bankruptcies Jan. 24 through Feb. 8.
    This bankruptcy information is gathered from cases filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Duluth Jan. 24 through Feb. 8. DEBTOR: Dawn M. Magnuson...
    businessFebruary 11, 2019 - 5:00am
    The Memo: What to know in business this week for Feb. 11
    The Number: 280,865 That's how many passengers flew through the Duluth International Airport in 2018, a chunky 13 percent increase from 2017....
    businessFebruary 11, 2019 - 5:00am
    On Leadership: Mastermind Groups are a success strategy
    "You're the average of the five people you spend the most time with." —Jim Rohn
    businessFebruary 11, 2019 - 5:00am
    February 10, 2019
    Essentia Health Welcomes Licensed Psychologist to Duluth
    Essentia Health Welcomes Licensed Psychologist to Duluth Licensed Psychologist Kenna Bolton Holz has joined the Health Psychology Department...
    business/announcementsFebruary 10, 2019 - 9:14pm
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