An eager reader points me toward a USDA analysis that should distress anyone interested in economic development in South Dakota: for the first time, non-metro countries in the United States have experienced a net population loss. 46.2 million of us…
Posts tagged as “rural”
Our April ice storm has Xcel Energy struggling to restore electricity to (as of 07:25 CST this morning) nearly 20,000 customers. The rural electric coops in southeast South Dakota are trying to get power back to another 2,700 customers. Meanwhile,…
Good grief—Pathfinder International can protect women's reproductive rights by setting up a women's health clinic in rural Bangladesh, but Planned Parenthood can't muster the legal resources to protect rural South Dakota women against the oppression of a 72-hour abortion waiting…
Mr. Kurtz links to and links up an article on Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack's warning that rural America is losing political relevance because it's acting like Kristi Noem: "Why is it that we don't have a farm bill?" said…
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…
Following our discussion of the merits of the FCC's Connect America Fund and Public Utility Commissioner Chris Nelson's critique thereof, I read this Atlantic article on the potential for the Internet to save small towns... or at least keep some…
Last week I mentioned CenturyLink's receipt of $35 million from the FCC's Connect America Fund to expand rural broadband as an example of Uncle Sam fulfilling one of Adam Smith's proper roles of government: providing basic services that the private…
In his now-famous speech about the modern economy's reliance on good government, President Barack Obama mentioned the Internet as a basic example of something we build as a community that helps every business make more money. Rural businesses understand the…