The Twinkle Is Gone

This community has been truly blessed. So let’s take a moment to say farewell to those who’ve done so much for Minnesota.

May 2009

Sane Compensation

Why have compensation committees of corporate boards lost any semblance of a sense of reality, of appropriateness, of balance when approving executive salaries and bonuses?

April 2009

Don't Forget the Future

All I’m suggesting here is that we stop planning only for next month or next year and start thinking decades ahead.

March 2009

Giving for Good

The more I speak with friends elsewhere, I come to understand and appreciate the pervasiveness of Minnesota’s Spirit of Giving.

February 2009

Score One for Customer Service

Great customer service just doesn’t happen without continuous reminders to our staffs—and to ourselves.

January 2009

Relocated Priorities

Ambition and the drive to succeed are not only great, they’re essential to avoid national stagnation. But those qualities need to be tempered . . .

December 2008

Exceptions May Apply*

I know times are tough, but it doesn’t say much for the integrity of business when it promises the world in large type, then lists close to 50 microscopic exceptions.

November 2008

Bread and Butter Charges

Today, the airlines are rapidly increasing the level of ill will in customers they’ve spent years and vast amounts of money to woo.

October 2008

Who Would You Be?

There are too many people with too many wonderful attributes, whose special qualities are so varied that there is no first-place winner.

September 2008

Thinking Ahead

If history is a trustworthy guide, there's nothing we can do to stop America's inevitable slide from richest and most powerful.

August 2008

Amend Our Legacy

If the Clean Water, Land, and Legacy Amendment passes, the funds it raises could not be reassigned—or ripped off—by future political leaders.

July 2008

Bet You Can’t Buy Just One.

June 2008

Buckling under Mass Quantities

Today, it's basically impossible to buy only what you want or need.

June 2008

We All Pay for the Framework

A light-rail system will bring broad benefits—and not just to those who ride the train.

May 2008

Awareness Transfer

Why good causes aren't always top-of-mind--and why Coca-Cola is.

April 2008