Tag: mining

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.

Who owns rural Minnesota? On the surface, this seems like a fairly straightforward question, but scratch the surface, and it turns out to be a lot more complicated. Yes, farmers and people in towns and some companies and state and local government do own most of the land in rural Minnesota, just as they do ...