From Don Davis via The Forum, EXCERPT: “Environment-related spending and policy changes come in a lot of bills, but the most discussed issue has been buffers. “The buffer stuff is huge,” House Environment Chairman Dan Fabian, R-Roseau, said. Dayton upset a lot of farmers when he began pushing for a law, passed in 2015, to require ...

From Mikkel Pates via Forum News Service, EXCERPT: “It’s counter-intuitive to start an inland shrimp business in Minnesota, but Michael Ziebell is building more than that. “We’re building a very large, fully-integrated shrimp company,” he says. And by the way — a new protein industry for the Upper Midwest. Ziebell is president and chief executive officer of ...

Rural Minnesota Radio’s Jim Gullickson talks with Community and Economic Development Associates’ Courtney Bergey, a Lanesboro native, about the economic impact and opportunities artists bring to rural communities.

Tim Velde of the Center for Rural Policy and Development talks with Rural Minnesota Radio about strategies to expand clean energy production despite proposed cuts by the Trump administration.

Initiative Foundation President Matt Varilek talks about the aging population in rural Minnesota and what his organization is doing to reach out to a younger demographic.

 CRPD board member and District 22A Representative Joe Schomacker talks about progress being made on health care insurance at the state legislature.

Center for Rural Policy & Development President Brad Finstad gives a mid-session legislative update.

  Part 2 with Steve Fenske from the Minnesota Association of Townships explaining the realities of broadband technology, especially in rural areas.

Here’s part 2 of our discussion with IRRRB Commissioner Mark Phillips, talking about diversifying business on the Iron Range.

  Part 1 of a 2 part series with Mark Phillips, Commissioner of the IRRRB.