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Ground Level

MPR News How communities are facing the future

Tag: Rural

Economic Development

3 opportunities for small towns

Dave PetersDave Peters June 4, 2014, 12:55 PM Jun 4, 2014
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University of Minnesota Extension researcher Ben Winchester identifies three demographic opportunities for rural communities: appealing to immigrants, providing new housing for aging baby boomers and attracting millenials with available housing. Read more →

Broadband

Minnesotans raise their hands for FCC broadband money

Dave PetersDave Peters May 2, 2014, 7:30 AM May 2, 2014
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The Federal Communications Commission is exploring how to pay for extending broadband service in rural areas, and more than 60 projects in Minnesota have been proposed by communities around the state. Read more →

Broadband

State should put $100 million into broadband fund, says task force

Dave PetersDave Peters January 27, 2014, 5:29 PM Jan 27, 2014
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Minnesota should put $100 million of its surplus into a fund to help pay for broadband infrastructure in parts of the state that now are poorly served, a state task force studying the issue is recommending. The fund, envisioned as a matching-grant program to help public and private broadband providers, could deliver service to more Read more →

Broadband

Survey: Broadband expansion trumps other needs in greater Minnesota

Dave PetersDave Peters January 24, 2014, 1:37 PM Jan 24, 2014
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What does greater Minnesota’s economy need most? More broadband. That’s the surprising takeaway from a recent, informal survey. Read more →

Economic Development

Who owns rural Minnesota?

Dave PetersDave Peters January 21, 2014, 5:30 PM Jan 21, 2014
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Who owns rural Minnesota can quickly get complicated, says the Center for Rural Policy and Development in a new issue of its journal. Read more →

Water

“Beneath the Surface:” Help us look at Minnesota’s pending groundwater challenge

Dave PetersDave Peters January 7, 2014, 1:44 PM Jan 7, 2014
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MPR News’ Ground Level project is launching an examination of the growing concern that Minnesota’s groundwater — source of water to three-quarters of the state’s residents — is on a path that can’t be sustained. Read more →

Broadband

Senator trolling for broadband ideas, says state hasn’t done enough

Dave PetersDave Peters December 31, 2013, 11:27 AM Dec 31, 2013
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State Sen. Matt Schmit, DFL-Red Wing, is conducting a nine-city tour through rural Minnesota to collect ideas about whether the state should do more to extend high-speed Internet access. Read more →

Economic Development · International Falls

Feds: Rural job growth flat

Dave PetersDave Peters November 15, 2013, 4:50 PM Nov 15, 2013
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As we were wrapping up work in International Falls this week for the Daily Circuit special “Rethinking a Company Town,” the federal Economic Research Service put out a sobering view of rural employment. This is how our friends at the Daily Yonder put it: “Folks looking for good news in the 2013 “Rural America at Read more →

Fighting for an American Countryside

Central conflict in ‘Medora:’ How to change and stay the same

Dave PetersDave Peters October 30, 2013, 2:13 PM Oct 30, 2013
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Check out an MPR News chat between Ground Level journalists Dave Peters and Jennifer Vogel and Davy Rothbart, co-director of the documentary “Medora,” a film about the central role that a losing basketball team plays in a small town’s sense of identity. Read more →

Broadband

Invest in humans, not just broadband technology, Blandin tells Congress

Dave PetersDave Peters October 29, 2013, 2:07 PM Oct 29, 2013
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Bridging the digital divide in rural America requires investment in people’s capabilities, not just technical infrastructure, an officer with Minnesota’s Blandin Foundation told Congress today.
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