The Amazon founder joined other executives of big technology platforms like Apple, Facebook and Google, in a grilling.
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Like other residents of his town in Germany, Wolfgang Huste knew a flood was coming. What nobody told him, he says, was how bad it would be.
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Ayurveda is one of the world's oldest holistic or "whole-body" healing systems.
Local
Homeownership study asks, 'Who owns the Twin Cities?"
A new study found that between 2005 and 2020, the percentage of single family rentals increased by over 10% in North Minneapolis, Southeast Como and parts of St. Paul, with Southeast Como's rentals changing due, in part, to an aging homeowner population and localized investor landlords.
Politics
Groups worry about tapping COVID relief for infrastructure
Organizations representing long-term care facilities on Friday urged lawmakers working on a bipartisan infrastructure plan to avoid dipping into COVID-relief funds to help pay for the roughly $600 billion in new spending sought for the public works buildout.
