The political balancing act, pt 2

 

Reed Anfinson, editor and owner of the Swift County Monitor-News in Benson and the Grant County Herald in Elbow Lake, continues his conversation this week about the issues our new governor from Greater Minnesota will be working with. Transportation is, of course, big, and so is workforce housing. But the real problem, says Reed, is population. Who’s going to replace the baby boomer employees as they retire at rural Minnesota’s manufacturers and other businesses?