Evan Ramstad
Columnist
BusinessHe moved to the Twin Cities and joined the Star Tribune in 2013. Ramstad previously worked for The Wall Street Journal in Seoul, Hong Kong and Dallas, and the Associated Press in New York, Washington and Dallas and briefly at the St. Paul Pioneer Press. He grew up in Grinnell, Iowa, where he got a start in journalism at radio station KGRN.
Latest from Evan Ramstad
Ramstad: An economic bomb has hit Lake Street
Hispanic businesses are being hit hardest as customers and employees hide from federal agents — or leave Minnesota.
February 4, 2026
Ramstad: Minnesotans’ moderation, not radicalism, is working against Trump’s immigration crackdown
Minnesotans fought back from the bottom up, not the top down. The resistance has not been overly organized and yet incredibly disciplined.
January 31, 2026
Minnesota gained more people from other states in 2025, a first this decade
The state’s overall population growth slowed last year, however, due to fewer international immigrants.
January 27, 2026
Ramstad: Open the Whipple Federal Building now
One of the first things Tom Homan should do is reveal the place and conditions in which Minnesotans have been detained.
January 27, 2026
Ramstad: Readers join my appeal to focus on state services, but fraud dominates their emotions
A column with un-Christmas emotion prompted the most reader emails and comments in recent weeks.
January 24, 2026
Ramstad: Vance revealed the real game in his Minnesota remarks
If this so-called “largest immigration action ever” operation was a business venture, it would be an utter failure.
January 23, 2026
Ramstad: Telling people to avoid Minnesota businesses doesn’t hurt ICE
The “economic blackout” day creates unnecessary risk for people who are on the side of getting ICE out of Minnesota.
January 21, 2026
Ramstad: Trump’s ICE push in Minnesota is part of a makeover of America’s population
He dislikes that immigrants have become such a major source of population growth in the state and country.
January 17, 2026
Ramstad: The response to fraud in Minnesota is now overkill
Minnesotans are being terrorized by ICE. As funding delays ruin caregiving businesses and charities, those who depend on human services worry about losing them.
January 14, 2026
Ramstad: Step one, build credit for Leech Lake members. Step two, build houses for them to buy.
Leech Lake Financial Services lifted up hundreds of tribal members to mortgage-level credit scores. Now, they need houses to buy.
January 10, 2026
Ramstad: With Walz out of the race, let’s get real about Minnesota’s challenges
Fraud is not the biggest problem facing Minnesota’s next governor.
January 5, 2026
Ramstad: In Minnesota, our constraints don’t have to block economic prosperity
Creativity is born of limitation, necessity the mother of invention.
January 3, 2026
