Ground Level Archives

• 2012.05.24: Bemidji phone company puts fiber on hold
• 2012.05.23: For volunteer fire departments, recruits can be hard to find
• 2012.05.17: What's the impact of a health care system like Essentia?
• 2012.05.16: 'Brain Gain' study: People in 30s, 40s still moving to rural Minnesota
• 2012.05.16: Behind the "brain gain:" Ups and downs of going rural
• 2012.05.16: Why move to rural Minnesota?
• 2012.05.09: Central Minnesotans kick the tires of regional plan
• 2012.05.04: Outstate Minnesota's great divides
• 2012.05.02: Getting There: A conversation
• 2012.04.30: How do you get where you need to go?
• 2012.04.30: Volunteer drivers harder to find
• 2012.04.25: Getting to the concert in Pipestone and other unmet needs
• 2012.04.23: After inflation, county spending flat; tax revenue portion rising
• 2012.04.18: More people are getting there in Montevideo
• 2012.04.17: We redesigned the Ground Level page
• 2012.04.13: More money for Minnesota entrepreneurs
• 2012.04.12: Health care reform doesn't have to be a spectator sport
• 2012.04.09: Can ag feed the world without destroying it? Looking for the Minnesota answer
• 2012.04.06: Making Ardelle Neufeld smile
• 2012.04.05: Join a chat: Central Minnesota's housing squeeze
• 2012.03.28: Sibley County postpones broadband vote
• 2012.03.27: Rural and wireless. Problem solved?
• 2012.03.27: Bemidji commercial kitchen launches
• 2012.03.26: Join a conversation: Affordable housing in central Minnesota
• 2012.03.21: 3 counties try virtual dispatch consolidation
• 2012.03.21: More on farm-to-school: Minneapolis kids to get grass-fed hot dogs
• 2012.03.20: Farm-to-school food: Beyond apples to grass-fed hot dogs
• 2012.03.19: New report finds entrepreneurism up slightly in Minnesota
• 2012.03.15: Northeast Minneapolis residents take development into their own hands
• 2012.03.08: Local brewers discuss money, regulations and pairings with stout
• 2012.03.07: What do you want to know about running a brewery in Minnesota?
• 2012.03.06: Group targets obstacle to entrepreneurship: unnecessary licensing
• 2012.03.05: State auditor's report says cities rely more heavily on property taxes
• 2012.03.03: Forced to Choose, writ nationally
• 2012.03.02: Like everyone else, entrepreneurs getting older
• 2012.03.01: Minneapolis art students share ideas with a small city
• 2012.03.01: Amid expansion, government jobs still declining
• 2012.02.29: Minnesota entrepreneurship: From beer to replaceable lawnmower blades
• 2012.02.29: Forced to Choose, even in Spain
• 2012.02.23: Join the chat about central Minnesota's future
• 2012.02.17: Just how clear should central Minnesota lakes get?
• 2012.02.16: Central Minnesota's future: Join a conversation
• 2012.02.15: Red Wing wakeboarder hopes incubator will pull him to success
• 2012.02.13: Is there a thriving entrepreneurial community where you live?
• 2012.02.10: Want more entrepreneurs? Welcome immigrants, for one thing
• 2012.02.09: Microloan lets Iron Range couple move back from Twin Cities
• 2012.02.03: Final tally: Property taxes rise 4.7 percent in 2012
• 2012.01.30: Minneapolis Fed finds little evidence self-employment has grown
• 2012.01.27: One Job at a Time: The story of Nots!
• 2012.01.25: Cities not so sure about farm-runoff pilot
• 2012.01.24: One job at a time
• 2012.01.23: Local leaders ask state for more flexibility
• 2012.01.20: Rural Renville-Sibley fiber project gets down to brass tacks
• 2011.12.30: Map shows co-ops lead charge on rural broadband
• 2011.12.29: Forced to Choose: Our reporters' takeaway
• 2011.12.29: Necessity, the mother of government reinvention
• 2011.12.29: Surprised by depth of agonizing
• 2011.12.29: For some, it's a question of survival
• 2011.12.28: After much debate, Nowthen contracts with Anoka County for police services
• 2011.12.27: Rating social programs in Washington State: a model for Minnesota?
• 2011.12.22: What Nowthen might not get if it doesn't pay sheriff
• 2011.12.21: Minnesota households with 'real' broadband access: 57 percent
• 2011.12.16: Central Minnesota chooses a future
• 2011.12.14: Deciding how much policing you want to pay for
• 2011.12.14: Two tax decisions: Same result from opposite directions
• 2011.12.09: Hearing attendance translates into 'yes' to property tax increases
• 2011.12.07: Plea to overhaul local government hits Legislature
• 2011.12.01: Puzzlement reigns over tax notices; share your story
• 2011.11.30: Local leaders look for way to reshape government
• 2011.11.29: Broadband task force gears up
• 2011.11.29: Who's raising property tax levies the most? Look outside the metro area
• 2011.11.23: Minnesota property taxpayers looking at 4.7 percent increase
• 2011.11.23: North Dakota oil fields drive up costs in western Minnesota
• 2011.11.22: Shocked by your tax notice? Look again
• 2011.11.21: Future of Minnesota cities debated on Midmorning
• 2011.11.17: Broadband rewards go to the well-organized
• 2011.11.16: Township taxes on the rise
• 2011.11.16: Hennepin and Ramsey tax notices are in the mail
• 2011.11.14: More money awarded for broadband in northern Minnesota
• 2011.11.10: Property taxes are rising for most, early estimates show
• 2011.11.07: Dayton picks new broadband task force
• 2011.11.04: When forced to choose, how do you decide?
• 2011.11.01: Do libraries give us a core service?
• 2011.10.31: Social Security's role underappreciated in rural economies
• 2011.10.26: Minnesotans find themselves "Forced to Choose"
• 2011.10.24: Minnesota's communities making tough choices
• 2011.10.20: A quarter of Minnesotans have no broadband at home
• 2011.10.14: Minneapolis property taxes rising only slightly
• 2011.10.13: Business property taxes heading for an increase
• 2011.10.13: St. Peter's zero levy increase makes a point
• 2011.10.10: WEIGH IN ON WATER: Why take action?
• 2011.10.06: St. Paul property taxes go down (for a few) and up (for many)
• 2011.10.05: 'We've just built more than we can maintain'
• 2011.10.03: WEIGH IN ON WATER: Does local matter?
• 2011.09.30: A conversation: Farming and pollution
• 2011.09.28: Farming and pollution: join a conversation Friday noon
• 2011.09.28: Bemidji and Minnesota's local food map
• 2011.09.27: X = what? Cities grope for way to describe new property tax law
• 2011.09.26: WEIGH IN: How should we deal with farming and pollution?
• 2011.09.23: Minnesota's property tax change comes into focus -- kind of
• 2011.09.20: More legacy money goes into water
• 2011.09.19: Cities have choices, all bad. Take Red Wing, for example
• 2011.09.16: Cities worry about taxpayer wrath
• 2011.09.14: UPDATED: Another Internet speed measure, another middling performance
• 2011.09.13: A new look to tackling Minnesota's water pollution
• 2011.09.08: Frustrated project manager retires from MPCA
• 2011.09.07: WEIGH IN: Is rural health care getting better or worse?
• 2011.09.05: Minnesota foundation gets into cropland rental business
• 2011.09.01: New study: Rural Minnesotans suffer chronic disease more, are less insured
• 2011.09.01: Trees, sculptures and more to show community collaboration
• 2011.08.31: WEIGH IN: Name one thing to change rural health care
• 2011.08.30: What's the water and sewer equivalent to gravel roads?
• 2011.08.29: Should the state bond for broadband?
• 2011.08.25: Dayton creates new broadband task force, promises action this time
• 2011.08.25: Cheering and jeering for rural health
• 2011.08.24: Weigh In with your rural health story
• 2011.08.23: Minnesota Idea Open names finalists
• 2011.08.19: League to cities: Even if you keep levy flat, your tax rate will rise
• 2011.08.19: New sales tax exemption for data centers could be used soon
• 2011.08.18: Divining how Minnesotans want to fix things
• 2011.08.12: Market value credit disappearance: Property tax sleeper
• 2011.08.12: Pick your best idea to preserve water quality
• 2011.08.11: Study points to increasing nitrate problem in the Mississippi
• 2011.08.05: Duluth collaborates to improve water quality
• 2011.07.29: Changes farmers have made to clear the water
• 2011.07.28: United Health Group points to rural care shortcomings, fixes
• 2011.07.27: Livestock antibiotics for bronchitis? Check out rural health debate.
• 2011.07.26: Lake associations form new statewide collaborative
• 2011.07.25: Should paramedics help fill the rural health care gap? Check out the debate.
• 2011.07.23: Balancing the state budget in 3 1/2 hours. Almost.
• 2011.07.21: U of M researcher takes issue with Harvard criticism of rural hospitals
• 2011.07.20: Some cities more prepared than others for LGA cuts
• 2011.07.19: Small cities anticipate LGA funding delay
• 2011.07.14: U report proposes new approach to farm pollution
• 2011.07.13: Broadband 7 revisited: Going without the stimulus
• 2011.07.13: Minnesota Idea Open deadline looms: Got an idea for improving water?
• 2011.07.12: Broadband 7 update: Fiber hard to find and bids high but construction starts
• 2011.07.07: Study: Some rural hospital care is worse
• 2011.07.01: Pew study on social networking doesn't find that trusting rural nature
• 2011.06.30: Rural = No turn signals cuz everybody knows where I'm going
• 2011.06.30: Defining what rural means without using the word 'zucchini'
• 2011.06.29: FCC commissioner urges greater broadband adoption
• 2011.06.29: Rural gathering focuses on -- what else? -- national security
• 2011.06.28: Rural health providers and the need to collaborate
• 2011.06.28: Advice to rural Minnesota: Look beyond the physician
• 2011.06.27: Sediment clouding the river: Getting to conversations about why
• 2011.06.27: Flow of information can bring disturbance
• 2011.06.24: Cool Internet speed comparison
• 2011.06.22: . . . Gone
• 2011.06.21: Tenney MN? Going, going . . .
• 2011.06.20: Minnesota's rural health care system under new pressure
• 2011.06.17: Health care reform creates new wave of IT workers
• 2011.06.17: Dental therapists to fill rural gap
• 2011.06.16: Rural health leaders gather to worry about reform
• 2011.06.07: Challenge of electronic medical records hits rural hospitals hardest
• 2011.06.03: Ground Level adds Minnesota hunger to coverage
• 2011.06.02: The check would be in the mail, but . . .
• 2011.05.31: Are tight school budgets really an obstacle to farm-to-school success?
• 2011.05.31: Rural America heads for St. Paul
• 2011.05.26: Virginia hospital to join forces with Essentia
• 2011.05.20: Budget cuts could hinder U's rural doctor training program
• 2011.05.18: Todd County marks anniversary of Initiative Foundation grant
• 2011.05.17: Todd County votes to pursue broadband
• 2011.05.16: The demise of the independent doctor
• 2011.05.12: New Ground Level Home Page
• 2011.05.11: Rural Hospitals Use Co-op Approach to Meet Tech Requirements
• 2011.05.09: Telemental Health Fills Rural Health Care Gap
• 2011.05.05: Glimmers of change emerge from St. James conversations
• 2011.05.03: Scouring the minds of St. James residents. What should cities do?
• 2011.04.29: Fiber proponent suggests data center on Lake Superior
• 2011.04.28: Getting rural businesses to see Internet value
• 2011.04.26: A Rural Doctor in the Making
• 2011.04.25: One last plea for long-term thinking on the state budget
• 2011.04.22: The rest of the Broadband 7
• 2011.04.21: Tracking Minnesota's Broadband 7
• 2011.04.18: Minnesota's rural hospitals rank high on satisfaction, care
• 2011.04.15: A Craigslist for activists
• 2011.04.14: Duluth center connects players in rural health care
• 2011.04.13: 10 cities about to ask themselves 'What next?'
• 2011.04.08: Paramedics take on expanded health-care role in rural Minnesota
• 2011.04.08: What's your fair share?
• 2011.04.08: No goats, but Minneapolis moves to allow commercial gardens
• 2011.04.06: Arrowhead urges entrepreneurship as big mining renews its lure
• 2011.04.05: Northeastern Minnesota's economic future: Join a forum tonight
• 2011.04.05: Getting past the health numbers. Here's help.
• 2011.04.01: The Duluth/Arrowhead Economy - Google said no, but broadband still a regional key
• 2011.03.31: If counties have a better idea, will the state let them try it?
• 2011.03.30: Exploring the State's Role in Broadband Ubiquity
• 2011.03.29: How good is Internet access around your town's school?
• 2011.03.28: Mankato recruits volunteer cops
• 2011.03.24: Picking up the Broadband Pace
• 2011.03.22: Jobs are coming, but there is bad news
• 2011.03.21: All Telework and a Little Play: Remote Employment Could Boost Rural Minnesota
• 2011.03.18: Funkley, Minn., back on top . . . er, bottom
• 2011.03.17: Almost half of Minnesota counties lost population this decade (plus trivia question)
• 2011.03.16: 10-year map masks population shift
• 2011.03.15: Wilder: Education surges past economy as Minnesota concern
• 2011.03.09: Anoka County innovates, saves child protection money
• 2011.03.07: Minnesotans "solve" budget problem: Reform, don't just cut spending; tax but only if it's fair.
• 2011.03.04: Where will a merged CenturyLink put $50 million broadband investment?
• 2011.03.03: Minnesota cities increase reliance on property taxes, spend less
• 2011.03.02: Does high-speed Internet access make you less satisfied with your community?
• 2011.02.24: Mediacom files its formal complaint against Lake County's broadband plan
• 2011.02.24: Central Minnesota launches ambitious 2-year planning effort
• 2011.02.23: New Minnesota broadband report makes disparity clear
• 2011.02.22: Sibley County commissioners take next broadband step
• 2011.02.18: Does the Internet show rural 'communities' are getting larger?
• 2011.02.17: Kick the tires on the National Broadband Map
• 2011.02.17: Is online learning "the other side of the rainbow" for cash-strapped rural schools?
• 2011.02.17: Government innovation: Vote for a favorite idea
• 2011.02.16: Sibley County weighs broadband for farms
• 2011.02.15: Pleased cities prep for cuts anyway
• 2011.02.14: Grand Rapids innovates under pressure
• 2011.02.14: Can volunteers save city budgets? Can working with the city next door?
• 2011.02.11: Can a city fight crime by spending on help for troubled youth?
• 2011.02.09: Lake County broadband troubles
• 2011.02.09: Instead of student loans, how about student investments?
• 2011.02.08: Will new broadband money penalize the early birds?
• 2011.02.07: Broadband money starts flowing to create 'culture of use'
• 2011.02.04: Community and family, not professional skills, drives moves to the country, U of M study shows
• 2011.02.03: You've done good; now how to scale up?
• 2011.02.02: Reduce crime by mentoring a kid, public defender pleads
• 2011.02.01: Fact & Fears about Crime in Rochester (liveblogging the Feb. 1 forum)
• 2011.02.01: Gangs? Misperceptions? Spending? Get a head start on tonight's Rochester crime forum
• 2011.01.28: Join online conversation tackling rural health care in Virginia MN
• 2011.01.27: Cities to the Legislature: Give us the sales tax option
• 2011.01.27: Bakk: Keep print legal ads because my Internet speed is giving me a heart attack
• 2011.01.26: Wilder unveils youth and children data
• 2011.01.26: U of M study to local government: Time to innovate
• 2011.01.24: Is community policing enough in Rochester?
• 2011.01.19: For city budgets, the angst is back
• 2011.01.19: Join the rural health care conversation: Virginia and the public hospital dilemma
• 2011.01.18: Where are the entrepreneurs?
• 2011.01.14: Will Sibley join the push for public broadband?
• 2011.01.11: Who are the hungry in Minnesota?
• 2011.01.10: Lake County offers good look at broadband's public-private divide
• 2011.01.07: Township spending and revenue ticked up in 2009
• 2011.01.07: Immigrant farmers try to get beyond farmers markets
• 2011.01.03: 1st state broadband status report: Mixed at best
• 2011.01.03: A year in the life of rural Todd County
• 2010.12.30: Land request highlights urban-exurban dividing line
• 2010.12.30: What's local food? You make the call
• 2010.12.29: Minnesotans on budget: We understand short-term pain, but we need long-term reform
• 2010.12.29: In tough times, family opens Browerville food market
• 2010.12.24: What's it like for cities to merge? Ask Thomas Terry
• 2010.12.23: Volunteers look for greater impact
• 2010.12.23: Early census figures suggest Baldwin is shrinking
• 2010.12.22: Worldwatch: Up to 10 percent of U.S. diet is local food
• 2010.12.22: Food safety bill passes with exemption for small farms
• 2010.12.21: Another voice calls for keeping seniors in their homes
• 2010.12.21: Hunting for food chain champions
• 2010.12.20: How one small-scale farmer cobbles a business together
• 2010.12.17: Todd County pushes computer proficiency for seniors
• 2010.12.17: The end of the exurbs revisited
• 2010.12.16: Is local on your grocery receipt?
• 2010.12.15: Red Wing mayor to veto levy increase
• 2010.12.15: River 'friendship' collaboration wins $25K
• 2010.12.15: Map shows local food scaling up in SE Minnesota
• 2010.12.14: Budget's a wrap, but some cities long for more involvement
• 2010.12.13: Local growers seek markets, food safety
• 2010.12.13: Third World is ahead of exurbia in some green ideas
• 2010.12.10: Basil, Walmart and exclusivity -- the local food movement gets complicated
• 2010.12.10: Developers look to create small towns in the big city
• 2010.12.09: Trees, recess and people who cause change
• 2010.12.08: The courthouse renovation is a go
• 2010.12.06: Play with your food -- on a map.
• 2010.12.06: A bird's-eye view of sprawl
• 2010.12.03: Local food goes to school, but how does it get there?
• 2010.12.02: Cheaper snowplowing through GPS
• 2010.12.01: Water bill unpaid? It could go on your tax bill
• 2010.11.30: Small farms that sell direct to consumer get exemption in food safety bill
• 2010.11.30: Minnesotans collaborate. Help pick a winner.
• 2010.11.29: Fed is looking for immigrant successes
• 2010.11.26: Harvest Thyme Bistro at 1 year
• 2010.11.26: Progress continues to be made at Baldwin's Young Park
• 2010.11.25: Good news on heart health
• 2010.11.24: Remember turkey carcass composition?
• 2010.11.24: Sibley's broadband spearhead: We'd welcome a private sector project
• 2010.11.23: USDA's 'Amber Waves' looks at local food
• 2010.11.23: A push for new leadership in Baldwin
• 2010.11.22: Finding a local-food Thanksgiving
• 2010.11.22: Voters OKed Todd County courthouse renovation, but what's next?
• 2010.11.19: Are community broadband networks faster than the metro area?
• 2010.11.19: How would cuts to mortgage deductions affect Baldwin?
• 2010.11.18: Fiber to farm: Should farmers pay more?
• 2010.11.17: Good response for our local food page
• 2010.11.16: Local food, local economies
• 2010.11.15: Why are you attached to your place?
• 2010.11.12: Code for America helps cities share resources with townships
• 2010.11.12: Some simple Internet advice for seniors (and others)
• 2010.11.11: What exactly is a "local" chicken?
• 2010.11.11: Making the exurban commute without a driver
• 2010.11.10: What's your budget priority? Citizens League is listening
• 2010.11.09: Commerce takes heat over broadband stimulus oversight
• 2010.11.09: One small step for measuring local food
• 2010.11.08: Trying to live longer in Morrison County: Residents think Blue Zones
• 2010.11.05: Help make the budget choices
• 2010.11.05: Can farmers and commuters make good neighbors in the exurbs?
• 2010.11.03: The challenge of measuring local food
• 2010.11.02: Sherburne's place in the Patchwork Nation
• 2010.11.01: Four questions for tornado-torn Wadena
• 2010.11.01: Long Prairie Packing donates to senior center
• 2010.10.29: Wadena sketches a future look
• 2010.10.29: Farm-to-school food: Who's going to chop the rutabagas?
• 2010.10.29: Case Study: New Prague's golf course
• 2010.10.28: Cities can adjust to an LGA-less future, says former budget chief
• 2010.10.27: If collapse is nigh, get to know your neighbor
• 2010.10.26: Gravel or pavement? Running costs to ground in exurbia
• 2010.10.26: Little by little, Todd County adds local food production
• 2010.10.25: Todd group pushes computer skills for seniors, jobs for youth
• 2010.10.23: Baldwin's community effort creates a park in phases
• 2010.10.21: Horner, Dayton, Emmer on state's broadband role
• 2010.10.21: Electric cars that can go exurban distances
• 2010.10.20: Good technology but no jobs. Huh?
• 2010.10.19: Solve a problem together, win a contest
• 2010.10.18: Local food, global hunger
• 2010.10.18: A good customer keeps pig farmers in business
• 2010.10.15: Medicine Cabinet Clean-out
• 2010.10.15: Finding the 'digitally distant'
• 2010.10.13: From bars to the landfill -- the case for fiber in Brainerd
• 2010.10.13: 'An old gal that pretty much does what she wants to'
• 2010.10.13: Shifting perspectives about the exurbs
• 2010.10.13: Medication management- another problem of aging
• 2010.10.12: Red Wing's incinerator on the chopping block
• 2010.10.11: Food, schools and a psychological boost
• 2010.10.07: Rethink what can be cut from local budgets
• 2010.10.06: A chart local foodies should see
• 2010.10.05: Making the crisis personal in Northfield
• 2010.10.04: Cities' reserves under pressure, too
• 2010.10.04: Planning to build your retirement home? Part III on universal design
• 2010.10.01: The Hardine's universal design home, part II
• 2010.09.29: Cost more of a factor than access in rural broadband use
• 2010.09.29: Rethinking the way communities grow
• 2010.09.28: Letting go of "dead ideas" about growth
• 2010.09.27: The beauty of universal design for aging in place
• 2010.09.24: A visit to the Amish Country Co-op
• 2010.09.24: A bridge in time saves Zumbrota?
• 2010.09.23: Shorter contracts the trend for union city employees
• 2010.09.23: Hutchinson, a Tree City USA cuts forester job
• 2010.09.21: Can streetlights lighten the budget load?
• 2010.09.21: Baldwin curbside chat tonight
• 2010.09.20: A groundlevel event: Hewitt Barter Fest
• 2010.09.20: Got a better idea? Cities tackle their budget squeeze
• 2010.09.20: Octogenarian Charlie Crews knows computers
• 2010.09.20: Is tourism the answer in the exurbs?
• 2010.09.17: Building Baldwin's tax base
• 2010.09.16: The other end of the aging spectrum: Todd County's birthing center
• 2010.09.15: Off the grid in Cook County and still wanting the Internet
• 2010.09.14: Angst-filled cities look for cuts
• 2010.09.13: Feds award $82 million for NE Minnesota broadband
• 2010.09.13: From potatoes to poplars, Todd County harvest swings into gear
• 2010.09.13: Rerouting the flow of commerce between Baldwin and Princeton
• 2010.09.09: An online conversation on city finances and police cutbacks (today at noon)
• 2010.09.09: Cut cops? Turn off lights? Raise taxes? Minnesota cities redefine what they do
• 2010.09.08: America in 2050: a look at the future of sprawl
• 2010.09.08: Dorothy Klick, aging in place
• 2010.09.07: More broadband money?
• 2010.09.03: Down to one, Cook County waiting, waiting on broadband
• 2010.09.02: Red Wing considers incinerator shut down
• 2010.09.02: What exactly is an exurb?
• 2010.09.01: Pew: 95,000 illegal immigrants in Minnesota
• 2010.09.01: Red Wing has residents' input, now for the hard part
• 2010.09.01: Building exurban identity with a history trail
• 2010.08.31: Beyond the data, Wilder asks good immigration questions
• 2010.08.31: Todd County group focuses on youth, seniors, jobs
• 2010.08.27: Rethinking outward signs of propserity in the exurbs
• 2010.08.24: Northfield joins the club, plans cuts for 2011
• 2010.08.24: Broadband summit doesn't answer the money question
• 2010.08.23: What's your plan for aging?
• 2010.08.22: MN Supreme Court denies Vollkommer appeal ending dive team litigation
• 2010.08.20: Feeling anxiety, Cambridge exemplifies the budget squeeze
• 2010.08.20: A primer to Minnesota's undeclared Broadband Week
• 2010.08.19: Cohousing offers exurbs efficient development, ample green space
• 2010.08.18: Another $23 million in broadband stimulus hits Minnesota
• 2010.08.18: Healthy Communities Partnership continues
• 2010.08.17: Stay or come back: Youth and the rural Midwest
• 2010.08.16: Want a market for local food? Provide a tax credit
• 2010.08.16: Is the MEDCottage right for your grandma? Or you in 2030?
• 2010.08.16: Baldwin's foreclosure rate remains steady
• 2010.08.15: The tip of the education ice berg
• 2010.08.13: Can a city save money selling trash bags?
• 2010.08.11: City woes: Property value burden shifts to homeowners
• 2010.08.11: Pew: Broadband growth flattens
• 2010.08.11: Thinking "green" in the exurbs
• 2010.08.10: Amid the angst, are there good ideas?
• 2010.08.09: Todd County's numbers are declining
• 2010.08.09: Alfalfa power returns to co-op's sights
• 2010.08.06: Will Baldwin grow again? Not just yet
• 2010.08.06: Todd harvest runs gamut from corn to grapes to camelina
• 2010.08.05: What if the thing that defines your community is noise?
• 2010.08.05: Recipe for rural broadband: Start early, find partners
• 2010.08.04: $40 million more in stimulus money comes to Minnesota for broadband
• 2010.08.02: Turning the broadband map from green to gold
• 2010.08.02: Americans still want to live in exurbs
• 2010.07.30: Working in retirement?
• 2010.07.30: Should Minnesota end LGA funding now?
• 2010.07.29: Starting small: Defining Baldwin with micro-communities
• 2010.07.28: Todd County's Key Strategy Meeting
• 2010.07.27: Willmar residents: Taxes no, fees maybe. Public works top the priority list.
• 2010.07.26: The politics of an exurban shift
• 2010.07.23: Check out Insight Now's noon-hour immigration conversation
• 2010.07.23: Barrel maker says it can't find workers
• 2010.07.23: How Moorhead gets 'served'
• 2010.07.22: FCC recalculates; 9 Minnesota counties left in Internet dust
• 2010.07.20: Without revenue reform, city services will dim
• 2010.07.20: Baldwin considers noise mediation instead of ordinance
• 2010.07.20: "I'd rather my kids drive on gravel roads than stick them with a big tax bill"
• 2010.07.19: Food miles, Kowalski's and that steak on your plate
• 2010.07.16: Is exurban sprawl dead?
• 2010.07.15: Todd County continues work in the Healthy Community Partnership
• 2010.07.14: Entrepreneurs and the recession
• 2010.07.13: Join Wilder's webinar on immigration in Minnesota
• 2010.07.13: Revitalizing downtowns with a can-do attitude
• 2010.07.12: Coming to Todd County?
• 2010.07.12: Baldwin dive team dismissal challenged again
• 2010.07.09: What's your community's tech index?
• 2010.07.08: Learning from St. Cloud's mistakes
• 2010.07.08: Bertha's empty plant to become Amish crafts co-op
• 2010.07.08: Facing a squeeze, Willmar asks residents for a top 10 list
• 2010.07.07: Schools and the Internet: The need for speed
• 2010.07.06: A ballfield for Baldwin?
• 2010.07.06: Destructive forces
• 2010.07.01: Playing with your food (numbers)
• 2010.06.30: Parks, roads, planning in Baldwin residents' vision for future
• 2010.06.29: There's nothing like a good rumor
• 2010.06.28: Ex-urban growth -- a pause or an end? Still unknown
• 2010.06.28: Baldwin expects big turnout Tuesday
• 2010.06.25: Farms and suburbs collide in Agriburbia
• 2010.06.25: Another warning bell on cities and their money
• 2010.06.24: Almost 200 turn out to talk about Brainerd's future
• 2010.06.24: A marketer's view of Baldwin
• 2010.06.22: Getting youth involved
• 2010.06.21: Pew broadband report cites Minnesota effort
• 2010.06.18: Getting to Seattle is easy, but what about West Union?
• 2010.06.17: Pew report on broadband coming out Monday
• 2010.06.17: Headwall hearings arouse core issue
• 2010.06.16: Baldwin dive team lawsuit dismissal upheld
• 2010.06.16: A lesson from smallpox: You can fix the system
• 2010.06.16: A partnership for parks
• 2010.06.15: Local foods: Beyond the farmers market
• 2010.06.15: Did you know Todd County has a sin ranking?
• 2010.06.14: Minnesota's renewable energy snapshot: Growth and barriers
• 2010.06.11: Sharing the load in Breckenridge
• 2010.06.10: Small towns meeting boils down to connections and leaders
• 2010.06.10: Commuter bus plans already underway
• 2010.06.09: Rural, urban and Control Data
• 2010.06.09: Gut-check time for Minnesota towns
• 2010.06.09: Transform Todd: Todd County's visioning session
• 2010.06.08: Stearns County lets wind energy proceed
• 2010.06.08: Residents trying to create visions in central Minnesota
• 2010.06.07: Baldwin's land: the foresters' soil solution
• 2010.06.04: Native Baldwin: Prairie or forest?
• 2010.06.02: Paynesville wind: Green energy meets community resistance
• 2010.06.01: Who's in the toughest shape when local aid vanishes?
• 2010.06.01: Could a parade put Baldwin on the map?
• 2010.05.31: Does the Historic Todd County Courthouse have a future?
• 2010.05.28: So many farmers; so little gain
• 2010.05.28: Pine City art lessons bring artists out of the shadows
• 2010.05.28: Baldwin pushing residents to get rid of driveway walls
• 2010.05.26: Broadband: The action is scattered around Minnesota
• 2010.05.25: Food: the saga continues. Home delivered groceries?
• 2010.05.24: Evolving the Baldwin commute
• 2010.05.21: Ribbon cutting ceremony at new incubator building today
• 2010.05.20: Microlending: Interest is growing. Does it work?
• 2010.05.19: Main Street program is back in business
• 2010.05.18: 'Younger' elderly volunteers key to senior programs
• 2010.05.17: Heeding the paradox of choice in exurban planning
• 2010.05.17: Designing Rural Minnesota
• 2010.05.14: Share a meal, idea at Baldwin's visioning session
• 2010.05.13: Helping local producers find local markets in the Northland
• 2010.05.13: Hear an abridged forum on KEYL
• 2010.05.12: Idea for healthy aging: Honor the cook
• 2010.05.12: Reinventing the bedroom community in Baldwin
• 2010.05.12: Immigrants, jobs and Long Prairie
• 2010.05.10: The Fireball of Todd County
• 2010.05.07: Musing in Florida about Baldwin and Princeton
• 2010.05.07: Welcome to Nancy Leasman, Todd County blogger
• 2010.05.07: What's wrong with aging?
• 2010.05.07: 160 turn out for Ground Level: Todd County forum
• 2010.05.06: Ground Level: Todd County forum tonight
• 2010.05.06: Rural-urban connections via videoconference
• 2010.05.05: Check out Ground Level: Todd County
• 2010.05.05: Baldwin turns out for clean up
• 2010.05.04: Todd County future aim: Technology to draw young, serve old
• 2010.05.03: What's on community minds? Microlending, broadband, credit
• 2010.04.30: How to fix a home for an aging senior
• 2010.04.29: Welcome to a new voice for Baldwin
• 2010.04.29: Jeffersonian advice for Baldwin residents
• 2010.04.28: Immigration as a solution for an aging county
• 2010.04.27: Elderly depression: 'It's heartbreaking'
• 2010.04.23: Aging in Spanish
• 2010.04.22: Women 45-64 vs people over 85
• 2010.04.21: Can garlic ride to a rural rescue?
• 2010.04.19: We need to talk
• 2010.04.16: Baldwin, Todd, Eden Valley and Brainerd zero in on getting people involved
• 2010.04.15: Voices from 1979
• 2010.04.14: Ground Level launches Todd County print and web coverage
• 2010.04.13: Coffee equals community in Bertha
• 2010.04.12: More evidence Baldwin's growth has stopped -- for now
• 2010.04.09: Getting together around Gull Lake
• 2010.04.08: Midmorning today: Taking care of aging parents
• 2010.04.07: What can a family reunion say about aging?
• 2010.04.06: UPDATE: From Baldwin to Greater Minnesota: Whither the Big Box?
• 2010.04.05: The Huffington Post on Baldwin
• 2010.04.05: Baldwin, Princeton and a good use for vacant homes
• 2010.04.05: Likes? Dislikes? Take a picture in Baldwin Township
• 2010.04.04: Training the next generation of health workers
• 2010.03.30: Preaching La Palabra
• 2010.03.29: Designing Crosby on the Range
• 2010.03.28: More sign up to fight invasive weeds on Little Elk Lake
• 2010.03.26: Princeton annexation talk stirs again
• 2010.03.26: The meaning of "small town USA"
• 2010.03.25: Where the sidewalk ends
• 2010.03.25: Baldwin Township is on Facebook, Twitter
• 2010.03.25: New trend: Grandma's moving in
• 2010.03.24: Demographer Gillaspy: Brace for aging bubble
• 2010.03.23: Is another foreclosure wave heading for Baldwin?
• 2010.03.23: Count Them In
• 2010.03.22: Help us define Ground Level
• 2010.03.19: Know a personal care attendant in Todd County?
• 2010.03.19: 70-plus people facing the future
• 2010.03.17: Todd County, aging and the numbers
• 2010.03.16: Getting old the new way
• 2010.03.15: All Work and No Pay
• 2010.03.11: Getting older in Todd County
• 2010.03.10: Baldwin meets peacefully for once
• 2010.03.09: Baldwin conversation audio available
• 2010.03.08: Advice for Baldwin
• 2010.03.05: Baldwin turns out to talk about tradeoffs
• 2010.03.04: MPR's Baldwin forum tonight
• 2010.03.03: Who tells the story of a place?
• 2010.03.03: Case Study: The Annexation of Becker Township
• 2010.03.02: Case Study: Livonia's Roadway TLC
• 2010.03.01: New Fire Chief in Baldwin
• 2010.02.28: Case Study: Nowthen Becomes a City
• 2010.02.26: A voice for annexation to Princeton
• 2010.02.26: Breakfast at Mikey's in Long Prairie
• 2010.02.25: Case study: Big Lake, where city and township get along
• 2010.02.24: Leave the roads unplowed?
• 2010.02.24: Good turnout in Baldwin last night
• 2010.02.23: Planning Guru on TPT
• 2010.02.22: What would de Tocqueville think of Baldwin Township?
• 2010.02.19: Myron Orfield book coming on Twin Cities sprawl
• 2010.02.18: Growing old in Todd County
• 2010.02.17: Union-Eagle Publishes Second Story
• 2010.02.16: Brainerd residents are tackling housing, neighborhoods under pressure
• 2010.02.16: Dive team controversy divides Baldwin
• 2010.02.12: Initiative Foundation kicks off in Todd County next week
• 2010.02.12: Baldwin's Bounty Hunters
• 2010.02.11: Will Baldwin grow again?
• 2010.02.10: Ground Level: Baldwin page goes live
• 2010.02.10: Coverage launches in Princeton Union-Eagle
• 2010.02.09: Baldwin board proposes budget cut
• 2010.02.09: The past lives on
• 2010.02.08: Goodbye to Green Acres
• 2010.02.05: Why I moved to Baldwin Township
• 2010.02.05: We're starting to look at Todd County, too
• 2010.02.04: Why kids love Baldwin Township
• 2010.02.03: Townships by the numbers
• 2010.02.03: The Big Commute
• 2010.02.02: Baldwin Township: A brief overview
• 2010.02.01: MPR launches Ground Level; join the conversation

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