Capping a two-year union organizing campaign, employees at the Uptown Borders Bookshop on Monday voted to ratify a contract proposal with Ann Arbor-based Borders Group, Inc.
PHASE II OF THE MIDTOWN GREENWAY OPENS
The Midtown Greenway, the innovative bicycle path that runs along the 29th Street rail corridor, is moving eastward.
DEPARTMENT OF GOOD NEWS . . .
It's not often that we are able to clearly connect decisions in City Hall to specific results, but we learned last week that the City Council had, in fact, made the right call in last spring's wrenching debate over the recycling contract.
COUNCIL WILL NEGOTIATE WITH HENNEPIN THEATER MANAGERS
The City Council on Friday voted to negotiate a 30-year agreement with the current managers of the city's three historic theaters.
CITY PENSION FUND DIRECTOR SCUTTLES MERGER TALK
The ongoing puzzle over the city's employee pension obligations became slightly more puzzling Monday, when the executive director of the Minneapolis Employees Retirement Fund (MERF) told a City Council panel that it was unwilling to support a merger with the city's two other pension funds.
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