The Duluth Superior Pride Festival has grown and grown in recent years.
See the festival’s website here.
As the Pride website puts it:
“Shop. Eat. Drink.
Rock Out!
Come and celebrate a fabulous summer of Pride in the Twin Ports this Labor Day Weekend. Join thousands on the shore of Lake Superior as we commemorate our 21st year of Pride [...]
There are still many places in the United States where creativity and difference are not welcome. But a Federal appeals court just put the brakes on a law in Coral Gables, Florida, that banned anyone from parking a pick-up truck outside overnight.
Read the story here.
The city also regulates the colors that people can paint their [...]
Tallahassee Democrat:
Article published Aug 28, 2007
Quality Inn allows visitors to go ‘green’
By Will Brown
DEMOCRAT STAFF WRITER
Tallahassee has its first green hotel, according to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. The Quality Inn and Suites on 2020 Apalachee Parkway was designated a green hotel by the Florida Green Lodging Program on Monday.
The program was established in [...]
The Northland’s first-ever bicycle/rail hybrid trek set to depart September 8
Grab your bicycle and hop on board the North Shore Scenic Railroad for the region’s first-ever bicycle/rail hybrid on September 8, 2007. The Pathways group, part of the Knight Creative Communities Initiative, is inviting bicycle riders to take part and enjoy two of our area’s [...]
Duluth Mayor Herb Bergson cites Richard Florida is this year’s proclamation in support of the annual GLBT Pride Festival. As some of you know, when Gary Doty was mayor, he refused to issue the proclation. Superior Mayor David Ross also doesn’t support Pride weekend.
You can find more information about Pride weekend here.
This is the [...]
ART WORKS ASKS FOR COMMUNITY INPUT ON BRINGING ARTISTS AND BUSINESS PEOPLE TOGETHER TO BENEFIT THE TWIN PORTS ECONOMY
How can businesses and the arts community work together to benefit the Twin Ports culturally and economically? And what can local leaders do to help in these efforts? These are just two of the issues Art Works [...]
Wilmington, North Carolina has a profile with many similarities to the Twin Ports. While it once had a significant manufacturing sector based around its port, those jobs have fallen from nearly 50% of the of the total to just over 20%.
The project there has been underway since 2005 and is a bit different than the [...]
Teachers are one field where, finally, the Baby Boom retirements are beginning to cause signficant gaps in hiring. While school districts in our region are in better shape (but only because we have fewer and fewer school-age children), in other parts of the country recruiting teachers is becoming more and more important.
Read this story from [...]
Come continue the discussion about Richard Florida, the economist who wrote, “The Rise of the Creative Class,” at a Brown Bag lunch Tuesday, Sept. 18 at 12 noon in Downtown Duluth. We’ll meet in Room 140 of the Minnesota Power Building, 30 West Superior Street.
The Knight Creative Communities Initiative is using the ideas of Florida [...]
Sometimes the absurdity of the status quo can only be revealed by being, well, absurd. For a local look at the absurd evils of modern bigotry, and by-golly, a laugh, check out this Ask Anna column.
