identify as an 802 “supergroup.” Although that description is intended as a self-deprecating joke, there’s also something to it. The band is assembled from members of various acts on the What Doth ...

The state has released summary data on JOBZ tax breaks without offering details on individual companies. In 2004 and 2005, for instance, participating businesses received $18.7 million in state tax ...

A Legislative Auditor’s report released Friday slammed Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s signature rural economic development program for being inefficient, under-monitored and over-hyped. The audit-report said the ...

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Our state's cornerstone economic development tool for Greater Minnesota, the Job Opportunity Building Zone program, popularly known as JOBZ, has been hugely successful. So it comes as a surprise that ...

ST. PAUL — Since 2004, hundreds of companies have shared in millions of dollars of state and local tax breaks in return for bringing jobs to economically distressed areas of Minnesota. But it’s ...

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Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. When GOP presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty presented his economic manifesto earlier ...