Podcast: Center of Everywhere Podcast

Season 5, Episode 2: Census Funding with MACS and The Census Project

On this episode, Kelly Asche interviews Joan Naymark, Executive Director of the Minnesotan's for the ACS, and Mary Jo Mitch, co-director of The Census Project. They discuss current funding for the Census Bureau and it's impacts on providing accurate data for rural Minnesota in the Decennial Census and the American Community Survey.

Season 5, Episode 1: Introducing our new research agenda

On this episode, Julie, Marnie and Kelly discuss the new process in which they developed their research agenda, interesting research conducted by our interns over the summer, and upcoming reports being released in the next few months.
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Season 4, Episode 8: An update from Otter Tail County’s Big Build Initiative

On this episode, Kelly Asche, Senior Researcher at the Center for Rural Policy and Development, speaks with Amy Baldwin, Community Development Director at Otter Tail County, about their housing initiative – The Big Build. Housing is one of the biggest problems when it comes to attracting people to Greater Minnesota and fill our workforce needs. ...

Season 4, Episode 5: Proposed housing legislation with Scott McMahon

March 2024 On this episode, Kelly Asche, Senior Research with the Center for Rural Policy and Development, speaks with Scott McMahon, Executive Director of the Greater Minnesota Partnership about proposed legislation in the Minnesota legislature. The Greater MN Partnership has been advocating for state investment in rural housing and in 2023 they successfully advocated to ...

Season 4, Episode 4: Suicide research with Dr. Tracie Rutherford Self

Our most recent research highlighted the suicide epidemic in rural Minnesota. On this episode, researchers and authors of the report, Marnie Werner and Tracie Rutherford Self, discuss the various elements of how we got to this point in rural areas, the factors that are playing a role, and ways in which we can move forward ...