From the column: "(Summer vacation) allows us to be better at almost everything, from rediscovering our creativity to having more patience ... to believing in our ability to solve challenging problems ...

Northland SBDC provides free, confidential business consulting to entrepreneurs across Northeastern Minnesota. It serves the counties of Aitkin, Carlton, Cook, Itasca, Koochiching, Lake and St. Louis, ...

From the column: "The affluent parents of an earlier generation gave us the current summer-vacation model. … Now, as then, families with fewer resources often struggle to find summer child care.” ...