How well is a community doing? There are thousands of statistics to pick and choose from. An exciting new project in Minnesota, the Compass Project, is underway in the Twin Cities and working on expanding outward to the rest of Minnesota.
Take a look at their extensive website here.
In the Twin Cities, they have the backing [...]
Friday, May 16, 12 noon. (Note New Date)
KCCI/APEX/The Northland Works/Minnesota Power Economic Development Brown Bag
“Reinvigorating the Great Lakes with GLUE”
Minnesota Power Building, Room 140,
30 West Superior Street, Duluth.
Who Can Come? Everyone is welcome and it’s FREE!
How? Bring your own lunch and enjoy the conversation.
GLUE, which stands for the Great Lakes Urban Exchange, is an organization [...]
The New York Times today has an article about a new bicycle sharing program in Washington DC.
The program starts with 10 locations and lets users pick up and drop off bikes at their convenience. A little like the Zipcar programs that have started.
May is going to be an exciting month to show off all of the work that’s been done on the Twin Ports KCCI project and the partners that have worked with our teams. Some of the highlights:
The Mix-It-Up Group has started their Hodge Podge Supper Club dinners to bring people together in the Twin Ports [...]
Our next Duluth Downtown Economic Development Brown Bag will be Tuesday, May 6 at 12 noon.
The subject will be the work of the Mix-It-Up Team of the KCCI Duluth Superior project and will cover their Hodge Podge Supper Club work. For more information on the Hodge Podge Supper Club project, please see their website:
Hodge Podge [...]
The Duluth News Tribune ran a story about being a year into the KCCI project on Sunday, generally praising the work and noting that real change will happen over a longer period of time.
“Positive Change Is on the Way” is here.
Community leaders had some significant praise for the project in their comments. Among them:
“I think [...]
One way of cutting the costs of owning a car, and finding ways to walk, bike, carpool and use public transit, is to create ways of having a car when you really need a car.
Now there are two operations in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area to do just that. The Pioneer Press has a story today.
Even [...]
What is it?
The Hodge Podge Supper Club is a first step toward bridging the cultural gaps in our community. Imagine people of different backgrounds, socio-economic class, races, religions and beliefs, all sitting down to share a meal and learn about one another. The goal is to develop our residents’ cultural competence and help make the [...]
A new report from the Brookins Institute says that efforts to clean up the Great Lakes will have a huge economic benefits for the cities that live alongside. For Example, Duluth could see a benefit of $200 million.
See the press release here.
Or for more details straight from the Brookins Institute, read their report here.
One of the things our group has liked about working with the ideas of Richard Florida for Duluth is that they are not inherently partisan. Both Conservatives and Liberals can find things to like — and dislike — about his work.
For example, in his discussion of the four T-s — Talent, Technology, Tolerance, and Territory [...]
