Blandin Webinar Series: Realizing Our Broadband Future Here’s a chance to listen in on some really smart people discuss some important issues for Greater Minnesota and Rural America. I worked with Dr. Delore Zimmerman when I was an Associate at the Center for the New West and executive director at Traill County Economic Development Commission. […]
Places That Matter: National Trust Photo Contest
This just in from the National Trust for Historic Preservation: Dear John: More than 1,900 photos have been submitted to our This Place Matters campaign, sponsored by Fireman’s Fund Insurance. What an amazing display of support for places that matter all across the country! We’ve reviewed all the contest submissions and narrowed them down to twelve finalists […]
Building Resilient Communities
Communities that thrive have many different characteristics, but one common aspect is Resilience. They take hard knocks and find a way to bounce back. Eric Pages of EntreWorks Consulting has some interesting thought on Building Resilient Communities. His newsletter says to “feel free to share” so here’s the sharing: For many American communities, the past […]
SRDC Spotlight: Broadband Infrastructure
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 […]
Building Community: Sweat the Small Stuff
3 key themes–involvement, leadership, problem solving.
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
Politics and Policy on a Planner's Blog
Is it possible to divorce policy and politics?
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