Posted on 09/09/2025 5:30:53 PM PDT by MNDude
The Minnesota Star Tribune has announced the closure of its Minneapolis printing plant as its shifts its newspaper printing to Iowa, with 125 workers set to be laid off as a result.
The newspaper's Heritage Printing Facility on North 1st Street in the Warehouse District has been operating for almost 40 years, opening in the years after the 1982 merger of the Minneapolis Tribune and the Minneapolis Star.
It will bring an end to 158 years of locally printed newspapers in the Twin Cities, with the Star Tribune henceforth being printed at a facility in Des Moines that is run by USA Today-owner Gannett.
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Someone needs to post the Seinfeld meme of “thats a shame”.
My dad always called them the Minneapolis Star and Sickle
Minneapolistan Star and Sickle appears to unpopular. I can’t figure out why.
Crazy that it is cheaper to ship the finished product 230 miles. Or do they intend to eliminate the printed version?
Why Des Moines? Why not Fargo — or even Winnipeg?
Parakeets everywhere deeply saddened.
I took a tour of that facility back when I was around 10.
Not sure why those printing presses aren’t cranking out copies of the Koran for the Twin Cities, one would think they are popular. Must be union infighting.
I would imagine it made sense if you had a plant hat was designed to print say 100,000 on a average day but now only prints 25,000. You still have maintenance, payroll, insurance, taxes, etc. but you are only using a fraction of capacity. Now if you have several plants nearby in the same situation, it probably makes more sense to run one one or near to full capacity and pay a few extra trucks vs 100+ people.
Whatever. They voted for it
Minnenapolis is in a ‘Rat Doom Loop....
The Walz is closing in...
A lot of newspapers are doing this, a friend of mine was effected by it years ago.
-SB
You're exactly right, our small local newspaper shut down its printing plant which had been in operation since 1871 about 15 years ago and the paper is now printed 125 miles away and trucked back to town
We called it the Red Star. Back in the day, it even delivered daily to my hometown of Fargo, Dakota Territory.
Granted MN/IA winters you are going to have some ‘daily’ paper versions delivered a few days late, stuck somewhere south on I35.
The “media” will do anything to make President Trump look bad.
It was either shutting down their local press or having it become Sharia-compliant - sounds like they chose the first option.
Their eight readers are in grief.
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