“The Bottom Line of Diversity”
Tuesday, May 6, 12 noon
KCCI/APEX/The Northland Works/Minnesota Power Economic Development Brown Bag
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.
Don’t look now, but the Twin Ports population is becoming more diverse every day. Major [...]
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 [...]
The Minnesota Post has a story about the openness of Minnesota to the foreign-born. See the story here. One of the interesting stories for the next 10 years will be how Minnesota repopulates its workforce. Many economists and demographers are saying that the state has no choice but to be more accepting of workers born [...]
Richard Florida is excited about the changes taking place in Denver, where openness to new ideas, solid connections between universities and business, and between the arts and business, are leading to an exciting climate for economic development.
Take a look at his recent article for the Rocky Mountain News.
One of the real keys to Denver’s [...]
The Hodge Podge Supper Club is an effort to bridge the cultural and institutional gaps in the Twin Ports 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. It is our belief that we will all benefit and [...]
A persistent myth in the Duluth Superior area is that the welfare benefits available are a draw to poor people from further south. Sometimes the myth says we’re attracting people from Minneapolis, sometimes Chicago, sometimes even Detroit or Mississippi. But a lot of research in the last few years says that just isn’t true.An editorial [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
