Follow Us
Featured Stories
-
Lakers, North Stars and…Vikings? Oh my!
08 February 2012 7:43 AM | 3 CommentsThe chatter is getting noisier. They are going to raise our taxes! That RICH guy is going to get richer! Our public schools don’t get any money – but that dumb team does! I don’t care – let the team leave! However, Minnesota history indicates...
Read More -
Your help is needed to close one hole in Minnesota safety net
06 February 2012 3:11 PM | No CommentsYou may have read about Charles Van Heuveln in Jon Tevlin’s Star Tribune column a few weeks ago. A good program that benefits people with disabilities — Medical Assistance for Employed People with Disabilities (MA-EPD) — has a loop hole in it. A hole that...
Read More -
Theater of Public Policy
02 February 2012 12:19 PM | No CommentsPolitical satire and improvisational theater have a long history in the Twin Cities thanks in part to Dudley Riggs. Huge Improv Theater on 30th and Lyndale in south Minneapolis is adding a new chapter to this legacy with the Theater of Public Policy. In partnership...
Read More
-
strategic planning Archive
-
In Honor of Trolley Problem Philosopher Philippa Foot
Posted on October 11, 2010 | No CommentsRenowned writer on ethical thought, Philippa Foot passed away earlier this month. Her collected essays in “Virtues and Vices and Other Essays in Moral Philosophy” (1978) and “Moral Dilemmas: And Other Topics in Moral Philosophy” (2002) dealt with reason and morals, or vice, as natural... -
Focus Your Efforts on Plan “A”
Posted on June 28, 2010 | 1 CommentAfter spending the last seven or eight months refining a strategic plan, involving an outside consulting firm, staff leadership, board members and community volunteers, the planning team was asked “what is your plan B if this doesn’t work?” Having worked on several such plans in...
