Neal St. Anthony, the business columnist for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, has retired.

He has been at the paper since 1981 except for an 11-year sting when he was was vice president of investor communications at publicly held securities firm Dain Rauscher (1997-98), now part of RBC Financial.

He has been back at the Star Tribune, primarily as columnist, since 1998.

St. Anthony writes, “In four decades as a business reporter and columnist, I witnessed great leadership, wealth generation, stakeholder engagement, encouraging reinvestment and philanthropy by smart, grateful capitalists. Also, greed and failure.”

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