Category: Rural Minnesota Radio

Ron Zeigler of CEDA joins us again this week to talk about economic development in southeastern Minnesota. The big challenges he sees are the shortage of workers for the number of job opportunities and a shortage of worker-based housing. Ron Zeigler and CEDA, part 2

Ron Zeigler is president of CEDA, Community and Economic Development Associates, and he joins us this week on RuralMN Radio. CEDA provides staffing solutions to small communities in SE Minnesota, NE Iowa and SW Wisconsin, especially in the areas of economic development. For small communities, hiring a full-time economic developer might not be practical or ...

We talk again this week with Nancy Norr, Minnesota Power’s director of regional development, to discuss economic development in the Arrowhead Region, including Polymet Mining. Nancy Norr, part 2

Nancy Norr, director of regional development at Minnesota Power in Duluth, joins us this week to talk about roles the power company and its parent company, Allete, play in the Arrowhead region of the state. Nancy Norr, Minnesota Power

The Center’s research director Marnie Werner joins Jim to talk a little more about broadband. One of the points that came out of the research behind our Broadband 101 articles was the idea that communities should have latitude when it comes to deciding what kind of technology to use to bring broadband to their homes and ...

The Center’s CEO joins us again this week to talk about the legislative session so far. Some of the other issues that are hot at the Capitol are broadband, local government aid, and because it’s a bonding session, infrastructure in general. It’s a short session, an election year, and adding to the pressure, construction workers ...

The Center’s CEO Brad Finstad talks with Jim this week about what’s going on at the State Capitol in this very short-session year. In this first part, they take a look at the discussion that has been going on so far around transportation. Legislative review with Brad Finstad

Tony Sertich joins us again this week, this time to talk about the shortage in child care and the challenges it brings to building the workforce. Challenging the child care shortage

Our guest this week is Tony Sertich, CRPD board member, former legislator, former IRRRB commissioner and current president of the Northland Foundation, one of six Initiative Foundations around the state working to invest in Greater Minnesota. This week Tony talks about why the foundations came about and the work they’re doing all over the state. Tony ...