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Ramstad: Iowa’s tax gift to Mesabi Metallics resets corporate giveaways

Star Tribune 10 Oct 2026
Less than a week after Mesabi said it would build a steel mill there, Iowa legislators gave it a $1.4 billion tax break ... .
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Ramstad: Are AI companies led by peabrains?

Star Tribune 08 Oct 2026
Some of the AI leaders say some really weird and strange things ... .
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Ramstad: The maddening economics of Trump’s $496M Minnesota prison

Star Tribune 03 Oct 2026
ICE’s purchase of Prairie Correctional Facility in Appleton is the biggest real estate transaction in state history ... .
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Ramstad: Minnesota hospitals get bigger to survive. That comes with risks.

Star Tribune 30 Sep 2026
Many people reflexively criticize large size, but the tradeoff between efficiency and resilience is more important ... .
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Ramstad: Minnesota’s Riverview, now the biggest dairy operator, is moving beyond the farm

Star Tribune 26 Sep 2026
After three decades of building ever-larger dairies, Morris-based Riverview is spending $400 million on a milk processing plant ... .
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Ramstad: Readers wonder if an AI chatbot took my job as a columnist

Star Tribune 25 Sep 2026
Ramstad’s views on AI regulation and a new demographic study produced a lot of reader reaction ... .
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Evan Ramstad: AI won’t kill us, and government won’t save us

TimesDaily 19 Sep 2026
Here are two safe predictions about the “national freakout” over artificial intelligence, as the Wall Street Journal called it recently ... .
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Ramstad: How race-neutral solutions can help fix Minnesota’s racial inequities

Star Tribune 19 Sep 2026
A workshop in Minneapolis earlier this year mapped out why efforts to reduce poverty and racial barriers in Minnesota haven’t worked ... .
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Ramstad: What a rural school district in Minnesota’s fastest-shrinking county is doing to survive

Star Tribune 17 Sep 2026
As Minneapolis Public Schools wrestles with decline, the district in Wheaton, Minn., was pushed to the brink before voters saved its school ... .
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Ramstad: For this Culligan operation, soft water has never been a hard sell in Minnesota

Star Tribune 11 Jul 2026
These days, many watercoolers are making way for fancier machines that filter out “forever chemicals.” Demand is so high, the company may operate franchises directly again ... .
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Ramstad: Republicans love school choice. So why did Trump target this charter school?

Star Tribune 09 Jul 2026
Many people say assimilation, yet choose segregation through charter schools. Trump’s latest attack on Somali children shows this hypocrisy in the culture war ... .
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