EXCERPT: “Infrastructure was a significant topic of discussion during the president’s 2018 State of the Union address. The administration has been teasing an infrastructure plan for over a year, but this year’s SOTU, as well as documents released and leaked from the White House, add some meat to the bone, and begin to tell us ...

Kent Thiesse, vice president at MinnStar Bank and a Farm Management Specialist, joins us today to talk about what renegotiating NAFTA, or pulling out of it altogether, would mean for agriculture, especially in the Upper Midwest.

The number of students choosing to open enroll in Greater Minnesota has been trending upward consistently since the policy was developed, but within the last ten years, these patterns have been intensifying, and in such a way that they are impacting how districts plan their programming, busing, and finances.

EXCERPT: “The majority of hospitals, 85 percent, will see net payment increases from recent Medicare Part B outpatient payment changes, with rural hospitals seeing much greater-than-average overall payment increases for 2018. The findings are included in new research from Avalere Health commissioned by the Community Oncology Alliance. The study investigates the net financial impact of a restructuring of ...

EXCERPT: “‘Overall, the biggest opportunity for Greater Minnesota is the additional exposure to not only those here for the game, but those watching from around the world who may have never visited or thought of visiting Minnesota before,’ said Explore Minnesota spokeswoman Erica Wacker. ‘They will see what a cool state it is, and may be ...

EXCERPT: “The 2017-18 MinnPost Social season continued Wednesday evening, when more than 100 people gathered at the Happy Gnome in St. Paul to discuss the urban/rural divide in Minnesota . . . MinnPost editor Andy Putz moderated the conversation, which touched on the degree to which metro and Greater Minnesota have similar — or different ...

CRPD board member and president of Minnesota State Mankato Richard Davenport joins us again this week to talk some more about higher education, specifically how higher ed priorities intersect are affected by federal issues.  

EXCERPT: “Since the George W. Bush administration, the federal government has doled out millions of dollars with the promise to expedite access to broadband service in remote parts of the country. President Donald Trump is no exception, having signed an executive order earlier this month directing the government to use ‘all viable tools’ to speed up the process ...

EXCERPT: “Rural Minnesotans tend to have poorer oral health outcomes when compared to urban residents because of a  lack of access to dental providers, lack of dental insurance, and lack of reliable transportation. However, rural health is not a top priority during legislative sessions, and dental care is further on the backburner. The harsher reality ...

EXCERPT: “It wasn’t the first time people had gathered in Marshall to talk about rural development. But chances are it was the first time they also sang an improvised musical number about small business loans. Bringing a lighter approach to serious political topics was the name of the game Thursday evening, as the Theater of ...