Portland does a lot of thing right. The New York Times just published a story about how the city’s dining industry is a magnet for talented chef’s, making the city one of the destination places in the United States. Read the article here.
What’s interesting to understand is the magnet effect. It’s important to [...]
Today’s Duluth News Tribune has an editorial on a slightly odd subject: how PETA and ExxonMobil are working together on the future of chemical testing.
Read the editorial here.
From our perspective, we like that the editorial board of the News Tribune gets the importance of the 4 T’s: Talent, Tolerance, Territory and Technology.
And we think we [...]
What: A Brown Bag Discussion focusing on Critics of Dr. Richard Florida and the Knight Creative Communities Initiative of Duluth & Superior.
When: Tuesday, September 18th at 12 noon
Where: Room 140 of the Minnesota Power Building, 30 West Superior Street. (Conveniently Located in the Downtown Duluth Skywalk)
The Knight Creative Communities Initiative (KCCI) is using the ideas [...]
The Duluth News Tribune this morning ran an update on all of our projects on their front page. Read the story here.
The only other thing we’d add is that part of the excitement is the sheer number of people getting involved in all aspects of the projects: as volunteers on the teams, in brown [...]
The good word about the KCCI Pathways action team is in. The total participants: 49 (44 adults and 5 children).
Good vibes from the participants.
The local press is good:
Read the Lake County News Chronicle Story here.
And now the Pathways team is working on some assessment of their event before jumping into their next project.
Minnesota’s African population is growing at five times the speed as the rest of the nation as immigration from Ethiopia, Somalia and other countries picks up, according to the Census Bureau. Read the Star Tribune article here.
More on the great Train/Ride Bicycle-Train ride in a bit, but just know that it was a great success. About 50 bicyclists took the train up to Two Harbors and rode their bicycles back to Duluth. Great party at Grandma’s Sports Garden afterwards with door prizes from the Radisson, the Duluth Playhouse, Bagley’s, Thirsty Pagan [...]
Tallahassee, another pilot city in the Knight Creative Communities Initiative, is getting news coverage of some of its work.
Their “Greenovation” project was to develop a park and ride system for local transit. They’ve now kicked it off, with the idea that commuters can park cars near places they would run errands, such [...]
A new website hopes to connect Duluth residents to ways to stay active in the area.
FitInDuluth.Com has dozens of ideas to get out into the open and get fit.
Categories include biking, canoeing, skiing, inline skating, golf, hiking and more.
Berlin, New Hampshire has faced a lot of economic problems: the paper mills that used to be the economic driver for the town are mostly closed.
So the town has turned to some old fashioned economic development: they’re trying to get big businesses to move in and provide the jobs.
What have they come up with? First, [...]
