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The Twin Cities and nation's theater scenes have lost a major light. Charles Nolte, who in his early years sometimes acted in heartthrob roles on stage and screen and who would later write plays and become a beloved professor, died Thursday evening in Minneapolis.

Having just returned from the frigid Motor City for our ongoing coverage of the 2010 Detroit Auto Show, the idea of hot-weather testing the 2011 Chevrolet Volt seems like an oddly foreign concept.

It's happening a couple of times a week now. A Google Alert on my name sends me a link to an article I've written here or on my real estate website, but it's posted word-for-word somewhere else. The fact that the alert is on my name means that the person copying the content is "clueless" or they wouldn't...

I've written about using RSS feeds and subscriptions to blogs and other sites to have real estate blog posting ideas delivered to you. Too many real estate professionals either don't blog, or are not doing enough blogging because they can't come up with ideas for posts...or at least that's the perceived...

In the late 1970s, owner financing was ubiquitous. Back then, newspaper real estate classifieds were sprinkled with ad copy proclaiming OWC, meaning "owner will carry." Although today's real estate market is different, there are still similarities between the 1970s and now. Many home buyers in the...