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Ground Level

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Tag: Aging

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Deaths and births in Minnesota. Where are they?

Dave PetersDave Peters March 21, 2013, 8:32 AM Mar 21, 2013
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More than a third of Minnesota’s counties are experiencing more deaths than births, but a few places with high immigration in recent decades run counter to that trend.

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Economic Development · Local government finance

Central Minnesotans kick the tires of regional plan

Jennifer VogelJennifer Vogel May 9, 2012, 3:24 PM May 9, 2012

At a meeting in Baxter on Tuesday, more than 100 people gathered to comment on draft recommendations for a central Minnesota regional plan.

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Outstate Minnesota’s great divides

Jennifer VogelJennifer Vogel May 4, 2012, 1:21 PM May 4, 2012

Outstate members of our Public Insight Network described factors that divide their communities, from mining issues to race and religious differences.

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Volunteer drivers harder to find

Dave PetersDave Peters April 30, 2012, 10:01 AM Apr 30, 2012

One solution to rural transit needs is the growth of volunteer driver networks. But volunteers are getting harder to find.

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Getting to the concert in Pipestone and other unmet needs

Dave PetersDave Peters April 25, 2012, 1:37 PM Apr 25, 2012
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Outstate Minnesota’s unmet transportation needs range from getting to an evening concert to finding a way to ride a bus to the Twin Cities, members of the Public Insight Network say.

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Making Ardelle Neufeld smile

Dave PetersDave Peters April 6, 2012, 2:25 PM Apr 6, 2012
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I went looking for my grandparents in the 1940 census tables. But the real reward was the smile of Ardelle Neufeld, an 80-year-old woman I had never met.

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Economic Development

Social Security’s role underappreciated in rural economies

Dave PetersDave Peters October 31, 2011, 8:41 AM Oct 31, 2011

In some northern Minnesota counties Social Security checks account for more than 10 percent of the total personal income.

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Health care · Local government finance

Jobs are coming, but there is bad news

Jennifer VogelJennifer Vogel March 22, 2011, 2:28 PM Mar 22, 2011
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With more retirees and fewer young workers, the state may continually be handed social services bills it can’t afford to pay.

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A year in the life of rural Todd County

nleasman January 3, 2011, 9:00 AM Jan 3, 2011

For a year Ground Level has focused on Todd County, a rural central Minnesota community dealing with an aging population and a search for jobs. Here’s what happened in that year.

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Another voice calls for keeping seniors in their homes

nleasman December 21, 2010, 4:30 PM Dec 21, 2010

The National Advisory Committee on Rural Health and Human Services focused in this year’s report on home- and community-based care for rural seniors.

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