Category: Rural Headlines

Minnesota Women’s Press: The Governor’s Office and the Women’s Foundation of Minnesota join together on a program for young women — the first of its kind in the United States

EXCERPT: “Gather together 500 young women from around the state in listening sessions about their greatest challenges and hopes. Match them up with the resources of the Women’s Foundation of Minnesota and the power of the Governor’s office. Create a paid Cabinet of 25 young women ages 16 to 24, representing eight diverse communities, and ...

Wired: Small-Town Ingenuity is Making Gigabit Broadband a Reality

EXCERPT: “The untold story of rural broadband is that over the past seven years, independent broadband networks have proliferated. Today, some of the fastest, most affordable internet in the country can be found in communities like Oskaloosa, Iowa (population:11,500); Powell, Wyoming (6,400); Red Wing, Minnesota (16,500); and Springfield, Vermont (9,000). According to a 2016 Federal ...

Marshall Independent: Company offers look inside new Balaton reef training center

EXCERPT: “Marshall High School graduate Taylor Greve held up a small jar in front of small crowd of people that formed around him inside the Balaton Bay Reef Training and Innovation Center. ‘This is the finished product of the hatchery,’ Greve said. He was speaking to about 20 people that were part of one of dozens ...

Becker’s Hospital Review: Survival disparities between rural, urban cancer patients cut when enrolled in clinical trials

EXCERPT: “The differences in survival rates between rural and urban cancer patients are significantly reduced when patients are enrolled in a cancer clinical trial, a study published in JAMA Network Open found. CDC statistics show a significant disparity in cancer deaths. Between 2011 and 2015, 180 people out of 100,000 died of cancer in rural areas, compared to ...

Health Data Management: FCC supports rural broadband deployments to enable telehealth

EXCERPT: “The Federal Communications Commission is putting its money where its mouth is when it comes to ensuring that rural Americans are able to connect to quality healthcare through the deployment of high-speed broadband. Earlier this month, the FCC unanimously approved a new $100 million Connected Care Pilot Program designed to provide access to telemedicine for ...

The Guardian: Where even Walmart won’t go: how Dollar General took over rural America

EXCERPT: “Dollar General is opening stores at the rate of three a day across the US. It moves into places not even Walmart will go, targeting rural towns and damaged inner-city neighbourhoods with basic goods at basic prices – a strategy described by a former chief executive of the chain as ‘we went where they ...

Fergus Falls Journal: Connecting urban, rural Minnesota residents through listening

EXCERPT: “Working to bridge gaps in understanding between residents of urban and rural areas of Minnesota, Melissa Wray is passionate about finding the humanity in all of us . . . While she currently lives in Minneapolis, Wray grew up in Caledonia on a sheep farm. After hearing a continuous narrative in the news of the ...

Forum News Service: Hot Minnesota races may drive up voter turnout

EXCERPT: “In four of the past five statewide primaries, greater Minnesota voters were more likely to participate than residents of the seven-county Twin Cities area. In three of those contests, the sheer number of greater Minnesota voters was greater than in the Twin Cities. That dominance comes even as greater Minnesota has fewer registered voters (1.4 ...

The Week: How to keep young people from fleeing small towns for big cities

EXCERPT: “The tendency of young people to leave small-town America for the big city isn’t new. But for the past few decades, more and more of us have been doing it. As Alana Semuels pointed out in an article for The Atlantic a couple years ago, ‘Over the past two decades, as cities have become job centers that attract ...