From the "11 CDs for one penny!" marketing of the Columbia House Record Club to today's slick "Just click to subscribe" trickery, columnist Tammy Swift struggles to navigate the complex world of auto-renewals, free trial periods and digital subscriptions.
Approximately $20 million in grant funding was set aside for both the 2020 and 2021 rounds of the program by the Minnesota Legislature in 2019 amid a larger state government effort to make high-speed internet more widely accessible.
ST. PAUL -- Echoing a recent trend in other states, for the first time a lawsuit has been filed in Minnesota alleging that websites--in this case, belonging to a county and couple of cities--violate disability law.
Thank you to Craigslist and Facebook for helping with a recent move. Since these resources were so beneficial for me, I decided I'd share some tips about online buying and selling for anyone else who might need some help, or for anyone who has ex...
GRAND FORKS -- North Dakota ranked among states that use the internet least, according to a recent study. The AT&T study suggested that constant internet access is not as common throughout the "10 least internet-obsessed states" as it is in s...
GRAND FORKS - The internet can be a strange place.For a world with no physical substance, seemingly populated entirely by cat videos, contentious politics and endless social media preening-and griping-our online interactions have a way of raising...
ST. PAUL - Minnesota's broadband situation is better than some other states but 12 percent of Minnesotans, mostly in greater Minnesota, have internet connection speeds slower than the state standard."We're not taking the elevator, we are taking t...
FARGO -- Julie and Gregg Robbins, proprietors of side-by-side stores Pinch & Pour and Fowlers Heritage Co., are among the legions of brick-and-mortar merchants who will eagerly await the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in a case involving taxat...
ARDEN HILLS, Minn. -- A data breach at an Arden Hills-based financial services company serving Catholic Church members in the upper Midwest has affected nearly 130,000 current and former members.The unidentified hacker accessed the first and last...
When I left for college, it was with the knowledge that my parents were only a phone call away. I was going 410 miles from home, a ridiculous distance for someone who tends to be a homebody and could probably count on her fingers and toes the num...
Here's a switch: Your local cable company may soon be offering you a cable TV bundle from Sony -- which markets its PlayStation Vue service as a "cable alternative."...
