Under terms of the Orchestra Hall lease, the Minnesota Orchestral Association is required to show how the facility is being used—and will be used—to promote the arts in Minneapolis.
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The organization ended its latest fiscal year with a surplus, which it will use to whittle down its accumulated deficit to $511,941.
3M and Target both made four of Fortune’s high-profile annual lists, earning them spots on the magazine’s 2013 best-of compilation.
In recent years, studies by Forbes, the Brookings Institution and USA Today found that Minneapolis had bounced back—or bounced ever so gently—on the galloping waves of the recession.
From Theatre in the Round to the Guthrie, there are plenty of options for treating clients to a show.
For Minneapolis and St. Paul to remain prosperous, we should learn from other cities, like Denver.
Some of Minnesota’s largest companies have committed hundreds of thousands in dollars and services to disaster relief in the Philippines.
Thrivent says California’s Controller is requesting too much personal information about Thrivent members; the Controller counters that he’s entitled to the records for auditing purposes.
Target and General Mills each paid cash grants of more than $100 million last year, although both companies allocated just 18 percent of those grants within Minnesota.
The process of identifying owners and buying or condemning “eyesore” properties, City Council President Barbara Johnson says, is bureaucratic “paper jungle” that inevitably takes time.
Minneapolis officials recently announced that it has made changes to an ordinance in an effort to increase the transparency of organizations that provide banking services to the city.
The owners of Dogwood Coffee Bar, Regla De Oro, Butter Bakery Café, and Hot Indian Foods discussed their entrepreneurial endeavors.
Users of CaringBridge websites will be able to select Hallmark-produced phrases and images to include when signing “guestbooks”; the partnership also includes a greeting card contest.
Osmo Vänskä, who led the Minnesota Orchestra for the last decade, resigned after planned Carnegie Hall concerts were canceled.
No money changed hands in the nonprofit mega-merger, which creates an entity with annual revenue of approximately $180 million.
“It was pretty clear that they are not interested in repealing these taxes,” Senate Minority Leader David Hann said shortly after the Senate passed the disaster relief measure 59-0.
The musicians’ negotiating committee said they rejected management’s latest contract offer.
Orchestra management has asked musicians to vote on its offer, which would not eliminate the orchestra’s budget deficit, by September 9. But musicians say they already rejected the proposal.