Category: Rural Minnesota Radio

This week on RuralMN Radio, the Center’s Research Associate Kelly Asche talks about updating the State of Rural Minnesota report by first answering the question: Just what is “rural”?

Anna Boroff, executive director of the Minnesota Cable Communications Association, joins us again this week to talk about the potential for investment in infrastructure that deregulating the communications industry could bring.

This week on RuralMn Radio, we talk with Anna Boroff, executive director of the Minnesota Cable Communications Association and Center board member, about just what net neutrality is and how it might affect Minnesotans.

This week we have part 2 of our interview with the Center’s outgoing president Brad Finstad as he heads off to take over as state director of USDA Rural Development. Brad talks about which project over his ten years at the Center gave him the biggest ah-ha moment, and what he’ll be doing now in ...

Outgoing Center president Brad Finstad joins us during his first week as the new state director for USDA Rural Development to talk about the last ten years and how much things have changed in the world, with news, communications, and at the Center.

Reed Anfinson joins us again to talk some more about the headwinds local newspapers compete against and why they’re so important to our communities.

Local newspaper owner and CRPD board member Reed Anfinson talks with us this week about the the importance of local newspapers, the impact of the Internet and why this matters to communities.

CRPD’s new research associate Kelly Asche joins us again to talk about what’s wrong with the current rural narrative and how we move it forward and get the facts out there.

Kelly Asche makes his debut on RuralMN Radio this week to tell us a little about himself and what he’s going to be doing at the Center in his new role as Research Associate.