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From Fort Myers to Minneapolis, Twins travel guy gets team to the ballpark on time

Senior Director of Team Travel Mike Herman has worked with the Minnesota Twins for 25 years and is the one booking all the flights, hotels, buses and more for the MLB team’s players, staff and their families.
May 25, 2025

Meet the ‘passionate person’ it takes to care for Como Zoo’s lemurs, sloths and orangutans

Keeper Mike Marazzi cares for around two dozen primates at the St. Paul zoo, where he’s worked for about four years.
May 11, 2025

A business partnership is like a marriage. Here’s how to make a successful one.

Launching a company doesn’t have to be a solo affair, as Microsoft and Apple have proved. Communication is one key to bring a team startup success.
April 20, 2025

What it’s like to be a St. Paul snowplow driver

‘You know, I cleared it. It’s clean now. It’s drivable.' Hop into the truck with Jeremy Bates.
March 17, 2025

A Twin Cities ad exec believes 2025 is ‘the year of the independents’

Jennifer Spire, CEO and partner at Minneapolis-based creative agency Preston Spire, said her marketing operation isn’t for sale despite frequent interest.
March 7, 2025

How to get FIRE’d: Financially independent, retired early

There’s a whole movement behind FIRE, where followers live frugally and save dutifully in an effort to retire before age 65 and live comfortably then.
February 17, 2025
Fuel price spotter Mike Wolf filled his tank at a Freedom Valu Center (cq) in Plymouth and used an online coupon worth 5 cents off per gallon. He checks posted prices along his commute from Maple Grove to Eden Prairie.

A gap year inspired a Twin Cities marketing exec to start her own agency

After a 25-year career, Margaret Murphy started Bold Orange in 2017. It now has more than 150 employees and topped $30 million in revenue last year.
February 4, 2025

Minneapolis-based agency donates 50% of profits to use ‘business as a force of good’

After the pandemic forced creative firm Latitude to refocus, CEO Krista Carroll said it has donated $8.5 million to international and domestic causes.
December 31, 2024

A Twin Cities ad exec believes 2025 is ‘the year of the independents’

Jennifer Spire, CEO and partner at Minneapolis-based creative agency Preston Spire, said her marketing operation isn’t for sale despite frequent interest.
March 7, 2025

How to get FIRE’d: Financially independent, retired early

There’s a whole movement behind FIRE, where followers live frugally and save dutifully in an effort to retire before age 65 and live comfortably then.
February 17, 2025
Fuel price spotter Mike Wolf filled his tank at a Freedom Valu Center (cq) in Plymouth and used an online coupon worth 5 cents off per gallon. He checks posted prices along his commute from Maple Grove to Eden Prairie.

A gap year inspired a Twin Cities marketing exec to start her own agency

After a 25-year career, Margaret Murphy started Bold Orange in 2017. It now has more than 150 employees and topped $30 million in revenue last year.
February 4, 2025

Minneapolis-based agency donates 50% of profits to use ‘business as a force of good’

After the pandemic forced creative firm Latitude to refocus, CEO Krista Carroll said it has donated $8.5 million to international and domestic causes.
December 31, 2024
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