Broadband internet access is increasingly essential infrastructure for business, agriculture, education and most other aspects of day-to-day life. Communities must have broadband to compete in today’s economy. USDA’s Economic Research Service states the situation in clear terms in a report released last month: In this decade, “rural communities that had greater broadband Internet access had […]
Making the Grade
The only list that matters is the list that makes a place our own
A Centennial of Cooperation
4-H, Extension & Communities that thrive
Biggest Opportunity for Rural Economic Development since Invention of the Tractor
Minnesota Business profiles local wind energy developer
Rochester Bio-tech Park in the Headlines
The Minneapolis Star-Tribune has some “investigative reporting” in the Sunday paper today, looking at G. Steven Burrill’s proposed Elk Run bio-science development on the road between Rochester and the Twin Cities, in Southeast Minnesota. As you may recall, Mr. Burrill gave a Big Picture talk about the state of human and agricultural bio-technologies at the Worthington Bio-Science Conference last spring. I […]
Broadband Means Business in Rural Minnesota
UMN EDA Center broadband study “Rural Businesses and the Internet: The Integration Continues”
Main Street Spearfish
Historic Commercial District Architecture
Declaration of Independence
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Southwest Minnesota Leading the Trend
SWMN Population 65+ in 2000 World’s Population Getting Older The world’s 65-and-older population is projected to triple by midcentury, from 516 million in 2009 to 1.53 billion in 2050, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. In the United States, the population 65 and older will more than double by 2050, rising from 39 million today […]
Remembering Tiananmen Square
This image is seared in my memory. A single man, daring to stand atop history. Not yelling “Stop!” (that was the job of William F. Buckley, Jr). Simply standing, 5 June 1989, on Bejing’s Tiananmen Square in an act of peaceful defiance to tyranny and oppresion. June 4, 1989, Tiananmen Square Massacre by 0110110x I’m […]