Chasing Smokestacks, Stranding Small Business: Rural Minnesota's Crisis
| July 16, 2007 |  View for printing |
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 ... 32157%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/editorial ... 288752.html
(Many thanks to Ed Morrison for bringing these two stories to our attention. Russ)
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