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Moving forward: Communities reflect on the pandemic’s lasting changes

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Polomis , an attorney with Hellmuth and Johnson in Minneapolis , plans to include provisions when drafting governing documents that explicitly allow virtual meetings ( since state statutes are unclear about permitting them ), with guidelines on how they should be conducted. . “We

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Starting Early: Super Bowl-Funded Community Projects Get Going Months Before Big Game

Associations Now

The Minneapolis-hosted Super Bowl LII is still nearly eight months away. Super Bowl LII isn’t coming to Minneapolis until February, but the big game’s impact is already being felt in Minnesota—and for reasons that have nothing to do with football. For example, St.

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Destinations Make Diversity and Inclusion a Strategic Priority

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” An example of the CVB’s D&I efforts for the American Council of the Blind’s upcoming summer meeting was mentioned in an article posted on MeetingsNet.com earlier this week. In March, the Meet Minneapolis Board approved the formation of the Diversity and Multicultural Action Committee and adopted a policy statement on D&I.

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Medical Device Group Embraces Threat-Sharing Strategy

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ISAOs have emerged in retail and finance , for example. It’s probably no surprise to hear that the smaller the med-device company, the harder it is for them to hire, retain, and pay for cybersecurity expertise,” Rothstein said, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Now the medical devices sector is taking the same approach.

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What 5G Could Mean for Events

Associations Now

Verizon has launched parts of a new 5G network in sections of Chicago and Minneapolis, while AT&T has implemented 5G networks in 19 cities but has no devices that support it just yet. In one famous example , an iPhone demo at an Apple event went south because there were more than 500 wireless networks running ad hoc in the venue.

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Airport Amenities: What’s In, and What’s Out?

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For example, while smoking lounges still exist at large airports such as Washington Dulles International Airport and Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, airports in Salt Lake City and Denver have either ditched them already or are looking to do so. For example, Minneapolis-St. There are some holdouts,however.

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Homeland Security Uses Nonprofit Grants to Help Prevent Terrorism

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The latest example comes from an announcement by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which is donating $10 million to an array of local nonprofits, governments, and universities as part of an investment in the Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) Grant Program.