A Valentine’s poem for the Minnesota man by Peter Smith, Minnesota Public Radio A Minnesota Valentine How do I love thee? Let me count the ways In Minnesota this time of year, practicality pays. I love thee for thy calories converted to heat, In the night, bun to bun, under the sheets. Never mind lingerie. […]
Tell us about your broadband access
Two broadband ISPs serve my home in a small town in Southwest Minnesota, Frontier Communications and Mediacom, apparently at Broadband Tier 2 with potential residential download speeds of 1.5 to 3 Mbps and uploads (1st Generation Data) at 200 kbps to 768 kbps . So says a new project here in Minnesota. Connect Minnesota, a non-profit subsidiary […]
Census of Agriculture 2007
The 2007 Census of Agriculture was released today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agriculture Statistics Service (NASS). While I was at Kiwanis for lunch. So much for this afternoon’s productivity! “The number of farms in the United States has grown 4 percent and the operators of those farms have become more diverse in […]
The Day The Music Died
Today is the 50th anniversary of The Day The Music Died. On 3 February 1959, in a field outside Clear Lake, Iowa, a small plane carrying Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson, crashed and killed everyone on board, including pilot Richard Peterson. As we all know, Waylon Jennings gave up his […]
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The National Planning Conference of the American Planning Association (APA) is coming to Minneapolis, Minnesota, in April 2009. APA’s National Planning Conference is the world’s premier educational event for planners and planning officials. With hundreds of sessions, workshops, mobile workshops, and networking events to choose from, you can build your own conference — one that’s just […]