Next Northland Brown Bag Lunch Series:
When: Tuesday, February 5, 2008 at 12 noon
Where: Minnesota Power Building, Downtown Duluth
Topic: The work of the Area Partnership for Economic Expansion (APEX)
We will hear from Rob West, president of APEX, about the kinds of ways that his organization, a private organization, is working to build the [...]
Take a look at the great site set up by the KCCI Duluth-Superior Art Works team. Just go to www.artworkstwinports.org. And plan on attending the Art Works Summit March 13-14 at the University of Wisconsin Superior and Lake Superior College.
If you’d like to be an exhibitor, take a look at the Art Works press release [...]
The Knight Creative Community Initiative has three cities working with the Creative Class Group: Duluth/Superior, Charlotte, North Carolina and Tallahassee, Florida. Our friends in Florida are moving forward and making real progress with a couple of their projects, most notably a film festival and their Greenovation project. Here’s a link to their update.
The folks in [...]
A new report from the Knight Foundation, sponsors of the Knight Creative Communities Initiative, discusses the importance of social diversity to cultural engagement. In other words, places where people get involved in arts are far more likely to be diverse places than not.
According to the report by Mark Stern and Susan Seifert:
“Diverse communities are the [...]
The NY Times has a good article about how much private donations, whether from individuals or institutions, are reshaping the public face of communities. See the article here.
For us in the Duluth-Superior area, the issue is also developing in similar ways. The A.H. Zeppa Foundation has invested significant sums in a variety of projects, including [...]
A Minneapolis neighborhood — Southeast Como — has a large concentration of homeowners who have invested in a relatively new method of solar energy for heating water. Take a look at the article from the Minnesota Monitor.
While some law firms are paying their top new employees ridiculous amounts of money, many of them as well as other highly paid professionals are realizing that salaries alone don’t make their employees happy.
Some of the battle is about the stress and prestige of being a lawyer and doctor, but as Richard Florida tells the [...]
The work of the Area Partnership for Economic Expansion (APEX) will be the topic for our next Economic Development Brown Bag on Tuesday, Feb. 5 at 12 noon at Minnesota Power in downtown Duluth.
We’ll hear from Rob West, president of APEX, about the kinds of ways that his organization, a private organization, is working to [...]
