Higher education and federal issues, part 2

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.

RuralMN Radio

RuralMN Radio: West Central Initiative pt 1

We catch up Anna Wasescha, president and CEO of West Central Initiative in Fergus Falls, one of the McKnight Foundation Initiative Foundations. This week Anna talks with us about WCI’s “Live Wide Open” campaign to attract people to the region for jobs and for the lifestyle.

On getting to the heart of the rural housing shortage, pt 2

Market forces in small rural communities almost guarantee that it will cost more to build a new starter home there than young families can afford, says the Center’s research associate Kelly Asche. Discussing his new report on the housing shortage, Kelly tells how some public-private partnerships are making it happen in places like St. Peter, while in Perham, business owners are getting involved in an effort to attract workers.

On getting to the heart of the rural housing shortage, pt 1

Kelly Asche, research associate at the Center, has just completed an article that gets to the heart of the question of why it’s so hard to get housing built in rural Minnesota. While rural communities recruit workers to alleviate the workforce shortage, they find they don’t have the appropriate housing for workers they would have if they had the natural churn of a functioning housing market in their community.

A legislative update

We meet this week with Rep. Joe Schomacker of Luverne to talk about where we’re at the legislature in the final weeks of the session.

Iron Range Resources with Mark Phillips

This week we talk with IRRB Commissioner Mark Phillips about economic development on the Iron Range and the impact of trade tariffs on the iron ore industry.