Farmers in Sibley County are forming a fiber cooperative in the hopes of raising money to join a broadband project after county commissioners opted out.
Governments need to plan more rigorous evaluations of their programs, Jon Baron, president of the Coalitino for Evidence-Based Policy, told several hundred Minnesotans.
The federal government is sending $30 million to regional offices of the Department of Health and Human Services in an effort to get more small rural hospitals to switch to electronic record-keeping.
The University of Minnesota’s Humphrey Institute is holding the sixth annual contest to encourage local government innovation. This time the winner gets $25,000.