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“Once things were so tough for me, I worked at a cheap pizza shop to get by. I kneaded the dough.” Things are indeed tough out there. The other day I caught my cat Myrtle at the keyboard, apparently trying to show my new granddaughter Kozette how to apply for a loan to buy a tuna fishing boat. (I know, there’s a lot going on here.) Anyway, up on the screen was a website that will generate a paystub given whatever information you provide. How’d you like to be an underwriter, trying to assure that the borrower has the ability to repay, with this out there? Hence the n...

CENTRAL MINNESOTA TOWN BALL REPORT Completing my tenth year at 1390 Granite City Sports with your weekly amateur baseball (Town Team) reports. Including

Jim Spellman and Bret Matthews, who own five Chicago area dealerships, bought Adamson Motors in north Rochester last week. The real estate part of the deal included paying $9.51 million in cash

Think mortgage math is complicated? Many in the nation are focused on air conditioning. Why is it measured in tons? It harkens back to the days of using ice, and a “ton” measures how much heat, removed by the system, would be needed to melt 2,000 pounds, or one ton, of ice in a 24-hour period. The result is then expressed in BTUs per hour. It takes 288,000 BTUs to melt a ton of ice in 24 hours, or 12,000 BTUs per hour. 1 BTU/hr. = 0.00029307107 kWh. And the average residential electricity rate in the U.S. is about 23 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh). When you see your utility bill i...

The Adamson family sold their 70-year-old Rochester car dealership, Adamson Motors, to Illinois car dealers Jim Spellman and Bret Matthews. The Adamson name is being replaced with the Happy brand.