Business and Economic News

Immigrants line up to renew work permits as program ends
After a looming Oct. 5 deadline, no one else can renew under a program that has let nearly 800,000 immigrants brought to the United States as children work even though they lack legal papers.
A Friday statement from the U.S. attorney's office in Chicago says the suspects made nearly $900,000 in illegal profits buying shares in Life Time Fitness Inc. earlier in 2015.
Business executive Susan Marvin on values and purpose
A talk by longtime Marvin Companies executive Susan Marvin. The company is headquartered in Warroad, six miles from the Canadian border, and Susan Marvin believes it's important to keep a healthy and vital rural America.
2 top execs leave medical marijuana manufacturer LeafLine Labs
LeafLine Labs said its chief medical officer and chief financial officer have left the company, effective Thursday, the company's CEO said in a statement.
Equifax promises a new lifetime service, as new leader offers an apology
The company's interim CEO promises to "let consumers easily lock and unlock access to their Equifax credit files." The service would be "offered free, for life."
'Playboy' founder Hugh Hefner, champion of free speech and 'smut', dies at 91
Hefner's magazine was blamed for (or credited with) setting off a cultural revolution in America, but within a few years he was branded a male chauvinist.
St. Paul council OKs ordinance for mixed-use development at Ford site
After about a decade of work, the St. Paul City Council has passed an ordinance guiding mixed-use development for the Ford plant site. A late change increases the percentage of housing for those earning very low incomes.
Minn., N.D. governors seek common ground on flood control
Mark Dayton and Doug Burgum have spoken twice since a federal judge stopped construction of the $2.2 billion Red River diversion, and they're hoping to resolve the dispute together.
Trump, GOP tax plan would cut rates for many Americans
The plan is sweeping in scope but omits critical, controversial details that are likely to take months to work out in a bitterly divided, GOP-led Congress.
The next big thing in beer is being a small taproom
The explosion of these cozy craft breweries has happened as states relax laws to allow them direct-to-consumer retail rights, meaning the majority of their revenue no longer has to come from food.