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Chasing Smokestacks, Stranding Small Business: Rural Minnesota’s Crisis

July 16, 2007 /

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Bear Paw Development Corporation is a private non-profit organization created for the purpose of administering programs to help improve regional economic conditions in Hill, Blaine, Liberty, Chouteau and Phillips Counties and the Fort Belknap and Rocky Boy's Indian Reservations.

The Case For Using What We Have To Do More In The Places That Need It Most

by
Lee Egerstrom, Fellow
Minnesota 2020

Full Story: http://www.mn2020.org/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC=%7BFF75B182-80F5-46E5-8CC8-89BA4EB32157%7D&DE

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To help small towns, help small businesses

JOBZ isn’t reaching rural micro-entrepreneurs.

Tonight many Twin Cities residents will return from an extended July 4th weekend spent "back home" in or near a Minnesota small town. As they travel, they’ll reflect on the vitality of the place they visited, and how it has changed from the place they knew in their youth.

Full Story: http://www.startribune.com/editorials/story/1288752.html

(Many thanks to Ed Morrison for bringing these two stories to our attention. Russ)