Mike Meyers, who was an economics reporter and columnist at the Minneapolis Star Tribune for more than two decades, has died at the age of 75.
Randy Furst of the Star Tribune, “Meyers had a talent for distilling complicated economic issues, often with humorous but riveting opening paragraphs. ‘He had an unusual combination of talents both as a very penetrating analyst of issues with a kind of fun-loving zest for debate and rhetoric,’ said Doug Tice, retired columnist, commentary editor and member of the editorial board at the Star Tribune. Meyers contributed to the newspaper’s Op-Ed pages after he retired as a reporter.
“Meyers died on Sept. 29 at a rehabilitation center in Minneapolis. He was recovering from a serious fall in May in which he broke his ankle, said his brother, William Meyers of St. Louis. No funeral is planned, but friends will gather privately to share memories.
“Meyers worked at the Star Tribune from 1984 to 2009, first as an economics reporter in Minneapolis, then as the newspaper’s New York correspondent and later as national economics correspondent. He won numerous awards for work that included in-depth reports on agricultural subsidies and financial problems at Northwest Airlines, which merged with Delta Air Lines in 2010.”
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