In our first issue of the Rural Minnesota Journal, and in every issue after, we worked to bring readers information and analysis from the state’s top thinkers on the issues concerning Greater Minnesota and its residents. Issue 1 is an introduction to the broad issues and ways to think about them.
RMJ: Volume 1, Issue 1, Winter 2006
Foreword by Sen. Norm Coleman
Reinventing Rural Minnesota, Tim Penny, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs
Spatially Separated Neighborhoods and Ruralplexes or Rural Minnesota is not Lake Wobegon!,
Dr. Thomas F. Stinson, University of Minnesota Dr. R. Thomas Gillaspy, State Demographer, Minn. Dept. of Administration
The Economics of Minnesota’s Ruralplex, Dr. Thomas F. Stinson, State Economist
The Demographics of Ruralplexes, Dr. R. Thomas Gillaspy, State Demographer, Minn. Dept. of Administration
Minnesota Agriculture in the New Millennium, Dr. C. Ford Runge, University of Minnesota
Challenge Helps Promote Creativity, Dr. Joe Nathan, Center for School Change
Representation and Legislative Power: Overcoming Rural Minnesota’s Representational Deficit, Dr. Christopher Gilbert, Gustavus Adolphus College
Minnesota County Government: A History of Accomplishment, A Commitment to the Future, James A. Mulder, Association of Minnesota Counties
Trends and Tsunamis: Rural Higher Education, Dr. Linda Baer, Minnesota State Colleges & Universities
Rural Minnesota Health Care, Raymond G. Christensen, M.D, University of Minnesota, Duluth