Category: Rural Minnesota Radio

We continue our discussion about funding for road construction with Tim Houle, Crow Wing County Administrator and chair of the Center’s board, especially about how the funding sources we’re using are not keeping up with the rising costs of building and maintaining our roads.

Crow Wing County Administrator and CRPD board chair Tim Houle talks about the Center’s latest publication, which takes a look at using local-option sales taxes for funding county roads. An analysis of the numbers shows that this option works better in some places than others.

Farm Fest 2017 will be the site for a couple of important opportunities to hear more about the next Farm Bill and enter into the discussion, says Kent Thiesse, vice president at MinnStar Bank in Lake Crystal, MN, and program coordinator for Farm Fest’s lineup of discussion panels.

There are a lot of well paying jobs out there looking for workers, and they don’t necessarily require lots of post-high school education, says Luke Greiner, labor market analyst for the MN Department of Employment and Economic Development.

Dave Ladd of RDL Associates joins us again to talk about some of the politics that go into passing a federal farm bill and why we won’t see one passed this year.

We continue our discussion with Dave Ladd of RDL Associates about the new farm bill being worked on in Washington and the role philosophical discussions play in its development.

Dave Ladd of RDL Associates and a CRPD board member joins us to talk about the discussions starting up around the new farm bill.

Dorian Grilley, executive director of the Bicycle Alliance of Minnesota, joins us to talk about the impact biking has in Greater Minnesota. https://www.ruralmn.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/RMR-06-21-2017-Bicycling-in-Rural-MN.wav

Kristi Fernholz, a planner with the Upper Minnesota Valley Regional Development Commission, joins us this week to talk about the importance of community events, in particular, the annual Meander Arts Crawl along the upper Minnesota River coming up in September.