Looking back over my life, I often think of the best advice I have ever received.

The modern futures market brings together hedgers seeking to offset cash market risk and speculators seeking to profit from price fluctuations in various physical commodities and financial instruments (bonds, currencies, stock indexes).

As 2008 drew to a close the Volunteers of America (VOA) project looked dead.

I’m a great admirer of Garrison Keillor, but occasionally he can become maddeningly perverse.

When Anoka County was organized in 1857, there were only about 2,000 people in the community.

A bill to protect jobs of high school coaches from parental complaints is a bad idea.

Community pride has been on display for years in the cities and townships served by Independent School District 15.

Last weekend, as we celebrated the day set aside to honor our moms, I was reminded of a child’s eye view of motherhood, something that was shared with me by a woman I met a few years ago, while working on a story about a teacher-in-waiting, fresh off her student teacher assignment.

With racial diversity growing in many suburban and rural areas, several recent awards are especially important.

Want to save money and time with college costs? Several free new tools can help high school students and their families.

I was always pretty good at math.

It is fascinating how people approach vacations differently.

When the Minnesota Sports Facility Authority unveiled the design for the new Minnesota Vikings stadium May 13 at the Guthrie Theatre, the public got a glimpse of the grand edifice that is planned to be built over the next three years.

Humorists can make hay of the least likely subjects. Like death.

Different industry groups move at different stages in the economic and market cycle. Stocks most sensitive to interest rates, such as banks and insurers, may rally early on in a bull (up) market.

We’ll come back, sadder but stronger.

J. Paul Getty once said, “If you want to make big money do what no one else is willing to do, sell when everyone is buying and buy when everyone is selling.”

Graduation is just around the corner.

A growing number of scientific findings on early brain development and the ability of children to learn more earlier is leading educational and business leaders to push for more state funding to educate three-and four-year-old children, particularly from communities with concentrations of poor famil...

This column will take a different track from the usual. Many folks probably think that taking the train in the U.S. is something out of the past or done in Europe, via Eurail.

This week’s column is going to deal with bond pricing and yields. While it may be more technical than usual, hang in there.

I don’t think anyone is more concerned about mass killings with firearms than those of us who are law-abiding gun owners.