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Slowing or reversing outmigration in rural South Dakota will be one of the topics discussed at the Sept. 30 meeting in Faulkton. Read More »
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Rural voters in battleground states prefer Romney
Mitt Romney is running behind in many of the major polls making headlines in the latter part of September, but one demographic is providing good news for the Romney campaign: rural voters in battleground states. Read More »
About half of Hecla’s water not making it to customers
Hecla has a water mystery on its hands, and it’s getting costly. “If you look at what we’re billing and what we’re pumping, we are losing about half our water somewhere,” said Hecla Finance Officer Gayle Lloyd. Read More »
FIRED UP: Rural Economic Forum highlights, through Storify
Rural economic leaders gathered in Oxford, Miss., last week to discuss rural entrepreneurship. Here are some of the top tweets that came out of that conference. Read More »
FIRED UP: The rural facts we used to know
The fact that hay can spontaneously combust when stored wet is something that was once common knowledge but is not any longer as people move away from agriculture. Read More »
FIRED UP: Get in on the discussion about rural issues at Let’s Talk Rural Futures
Some exciting thinking about the future of rural places is going on in Nebraska. Read More »
FiredUp: Give us a good reason to move back to the Dakotas. No, really.
Moving to a rural place has positives and negatives, according to a recent Minnesota Public Radio story. Read More »
USPS decides to keep rural post offices open, but with reduced hours
The U.S. Postal Service says it will keep open the rural post offices it proposed closing earlier this year as part of a money-saving effort, The Associated Press reports. No post offices would be closed under the new plan, but more than 13,000 rural mail facilities could be forced to reduce operation hours. Read More »