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Posts tagged as “Rural Learning Center”

Maroney Commons: Too Big for Howard, or Victim of GOP Wind Hate?

I've spoken glowingly of Maroney Commons, the remarkable LEED-certified hotel, restaurant, and conference center built by the Rural Learning Center in Howard. So has my neighbor Ken Meyer, who wrote on the Rural Learning Center's blog last month that Maroney…

Stimulus Builds Conference Center, Jobs, Tourism, Hope in Howard

Oh, now I get what Sibby was talking about when he referred to the grand opening of the Rural Learning Center's Maroney Commons as "the communist takeover of Howard." The $6.5-million conference center, which has created a bunch of new…

Rural Community Reason for Being: If Not Retail, Then What?

Here is a profoundly hard question for all of us rural folks to tackle: What are rural communities for? Mike Knutson of the Rural Learning Center in Howard is grappling with this question in front of an audience today at…