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INSIGHT NEWS October 4 - October 10, 2010 • MN Metro Vol. 36 No. 40 • The Journal For Community News, Business & The Arts • www.insightnews.com
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Miguel Ramos, Alejandra Cabrera and Louis Adams III
Opportunity with the Twins through Emerging Markets leadership Miguel Ramos is the Emerging Markets Manager hired to usher in a greater day for diversity within the Twins organization and their outreach to Twins territory. Ramos, a warmnatured Puerto Rican American, has the strong, proud, immigrant story and background to provide a key lens to the sentiments and needs of the developing local melting pot. Alongside Ramos in the Emerging
By Ryan T. Scott Contributing Writer Nothing succeeds like success. While the Twins baseball team is bringing hope to baseball fans through their success on the field, the Twins team in the Emerging Markets department is successfully bringing hope and opportunity to the community at large.
Markets department is a bright, energetic, and diverse group of young professionals who all seem to understand the larger importance of their job. Ramos’ right hand man, amongst a team of roughly 15 staff, is intern Louis Adams, III. Though Adams is a 2006 graduate of North High School, he originally hails from Prescott, WI. “I learned a lot making that transition from a small town in
Wisconsin to here. But I’m a better person for it, and it gives me good perspective to help make a difference in what I’m doing [with the Twins]. It’s all been a blessing” Adams, along with Ramos’ first intern Alejandra Cabrera, represent one of the strongest elements of the overall plan to provide opportunity to all communities through the Twins brand: paid internships. From Twins President Dave St.
Peter, to Vice President, Marketing, David Klinger, the Twins show that not only does their player system build from the grassroots level, but their executive inner workings also employ the same strategy. St. Peter and Klinger both started from similar internship level positions and have risen to their current leadership positions.
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Moving our agenda forward Going all the way By Al McFarlane and B.P. Ford, The Editors
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Natonia Johnson, one of the young leaders on Impact MN’s get out the vote initiative
Black people can and must organize, demand and exercise power at the table of decision. Without fear or apology, we must say, “This is the way we see the world. These are our interests. If our interests compete or conflict with yours, let’s negotiate.” That day is at hand, right now, according to driven young political organizers like Corey Day, Executive Director of the
embryonic, Impact Minnesota. “Impact Minnesota may bring life to our community’s ability to define its future,” said Day last week in a broadcast interview with us recently on “Conversations with Al McFarlane,” on KFAI FM 90.3 Impact Minnesota seeks to enable Black Minnesota to lay claim to its share of the hundreds of commissions and jobs in state government that direct Minnesota’s multi billion dollar state budget. It’s a response to the oft stated refrain that
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By Al McFarlane and B.P. Ford, The Editors
Dayton says schools need more money
By Lydia Schwartz Contributing Writer On Thursday, Sept. 23, Minnesota Meeting invited the major parties’ gubernatorial candidates to share and debate their visions and policy ideas on Minnesota’s Preschool-12th Grade education system. The event was co-sponsored by the Itasca Project and the Robins, Kaplan, Miller and Ciresi Foundation for Children.
Minnesota Meeting is a program of The Minneapolis Foundation. It draws together engaging and provocative national speakers, panelists of local experts, a geographically, economically, and racially diverse audience, and userfriendly materials to provide data, exchange perspectives, and stimulate dialogue on critical issues facing our community.
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Aesthetics
Making the Choir TV show holds life auditions
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Left to right: Gubernatorial candidates Tom Horner (Independence), Tom Emmer (Republican), Mark Dayton (Democrat), and moderator Cathy Wurzer of Twin Cities public radio and MPR.
Health
American Cancer Society’s health summit a UROC
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Gary Hines & Sounds of Blackness
This is the first in a series of artist biographies aimed at illuminating the depth of talent, creative and productivity Minnesota artists bring to their craft and to our community and culture in the broadest sense. We begin focusing on the stellar, Grammy Award-winning Sounds of Blackness and its leader and founder, Gary Dennis Hines. Since January of 1971, the Grammy Award-winning Sounds of Blackness have consistently performed and proclaimed the music, culture and history of African Americans to audiences all over the world. From Jazz and Blues, to Rock & Roll, R&B, Gospel,
Technology
Broadband training teaches job search skills
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Photo courtesy the Artist
Gary Hines
Spirituals, Hip-Hop, Reggae and Soul, the group colors each and every “sound of blackness” with uplifting messages of hope, unity, love and peace for all humankind - and then works passionately to achieve it. These are the milestones marking 35 years of tireless endeavor, creative genius, and business excellence: 1. Performing on five continents before homeless persons, prison inmates, and orphans, kings, queens, presidents and heads of state. Sounds of Blackness headlined at “The Denver Summit of Eight”, The World Music Awards, at various Embassy events and over
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Lifestyle
Coming clean: Clutter cures
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