I started using WordPress.com to see how it could be a useful tool to facilitate work-related community planning projects. It’s taken me in a few different directions, into music and broadband and Scouting and many other esoteric topics. Now it’s taken me back to the beginning, with a focused work-related blog: Welcome to the All-Hazard Mitigation […]
Rediscovering My Landscape
Do you remember when school was more like play than work? I volunteer with Scouts and it’s so refreshing when I get to see 9-year-olds discovering the world for the first time. The first time a kid looks at the moon through a telescope, or learns how to carve a simple figure out of soap. […]
Rural Collaborative brings Broadband Home
USDA BIP award goes to Windom FTTP group
MN Congressional Seat May Be Down for the Count
RACE TO KEEP EIGHT CONGRESSIONAL SEATS TIGHTENS FOR MINNESOTA Minnesota is in ‘dead heat’ with three other states for final seat Date: December 23, 2009 Contact: Tom Gillaspy, State Demographer Minnesota would just barely miss keeping its eight Congressional seats, based on an analysis of new state population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. The […]
MN Ultra High-Speed Broadband Report
Summary for Southwest Regional Development Commission.
Farm Bureaus Lead Rural Development Efforts
The American Farm Bureau Federation is holding their annual meeting in Seattle this week. Farm Bureaus Lead Rural Development Efforts SEATTLE, January 12, 2010 – There was a time when railroads were the perfect rural development tool. Then the interstate system brought prosperity – or in some cases decline – to certain towns. These days, […]
Fewer Things, Better
In the spirit of New Years’ Resolutions, Minnesota State Rep. Laura Brod (R-New Prague) had a nice op/ed in the St. Paul Pioneer Press this weekend. Now, George Will doesn’t have anything to fear from the Twin Cities lawmaker who has been a favorite of the media’s gubernatorial ticket wish-lists. She starts out a bit […]
USDA Jobs Roundtable 6 Jan at NDSS
USDA TO HOST FORUM ON JOBS, ECONOMIC GROWTH Business Owners, Residents, Community Leaders Invited to Share Ideas on Creating Jobs Huron, SD, December 17, 2009 – USDA Rural Development State Director Elsie M. Meeks and USDA Farm Service Agency State Executive Director Craig Schaunaman announced today that the state office will hold a forum on […]
International Symposium on Rural Design
This sounds like an interesting conference coming up next month in St. Paul. I like the folks up at the Center for Rural Design at the University of Minnesota. They’re thinking about old problems in new ways. We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the First International Symposium on Rural Design. […]
FCC Sets Drop Dead Date on Wireless Sites
Planning & zoning professionals seem to have greeted with deafening silence the FCC decision last week on wireless tower siting timelines. The press release begins: In a Declaratory Ruling (“Ruling”) adopted today [18.11.09], the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) cleared the way for broadband deployment by establishing timeframes of 90 days for collocations and 150 days […]