Category: Rural Minnesota Radio

  This week CRPD’s research associate Kelly Asche joins us again to talk about the workforce shortage and how it can turn out to be a positive story. Employers are starting to look at what were previously considered hard-to-employ groups, like people with criminal backgrounds and people with disabilities. There is also the work going ...

  An upcoming report by the Center for Rural Policy & Development shows that there is no shortage of jobs available in Greater Minnesota these days. CRPD Research Associate Kelly Asche joins Jim this week to talk about job vacancies, wages and more in part 1.

This week on RuralMn Radio, Mark Phillips, Commissioner of the Iron Range Resources and Rehabilitation,  joins us to talk about the region’s stabilizing economy, how resource extraction businesses feed into vendor businesses, and strategies being implemented to recruit and retain people.

  This week on RuralMn Radio, Phill Claussen, Blue Earth County Human Services Director, and Angela Youngerberg, Director of Business Operations for Blue Earth County Human Services, join us again to talk further about the county’s Yellow Line Project. This week they talk about how the project gives provides law enforcement and offenders more options ...

  This week on RuralMn Radio, Phill Claussen, Blue Earth County Human Services Director, and Angela Youngerberg, Director of Business Operations for Blue Earth County, join us again to talk further about how the county’s Yellow Line Project is working to help people who may have chemical or mental issues get the treatment they need ...

  We’re joined this week by Phil Claussen, Director of Human Services for Blue Earth County, and Angie Youngerberg, Assistant Human Services Director, to talk about Blue Earth County’s Yellow Line Project, an innovative program that has county human services, law enforcement and the courts working together to get people who need treatment more than ...

  Farm Fest 2018 will feature the “World Series” of candidate forums with big races in the Senate, Congress and for governor. Kent Thiesse tells us more about this annual ag event Aug. 7-9 at the Gilfillan Estate near Redwood Falls.

  Dave Ladd of RDL & Associates is our guest again this week talking about the impact of tariffs on trade for agriculture and other American industries. We talk about the importance of being seen as a reliable trading partner on the international scene for our state economy, both urban and rural.

  Dave Ladd, president of RDL & Associates, joins us today to talk about the impact of the current tariffs and trade wars on our economy and individuals.