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October 28th, 2010

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The people interviewed are in complete agreement about the most pressing issues confronting the state: jobs and the economy. They also provide a lot of great advice on what their leaders need to do to fix the problems. Strengthening entrepreneurship programs, working together, buy Nasonex online no prescription, Order Nasonex no prescription, and growing local economy are some of my favorite responses.

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August 23rd, 2010

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For those who haven't read the report, I want to share a few insights Ben sent me via e-mail.

First, Ben's research leads him to believe the trend he discovered in Minnesota is widespread across the Rural Midwest, including South Dakota. While I trust Ben's academic prowess, I'd still like to see some research to support it. After all, my South Dakota heritage tells me that all the good stuff happens to Minnesota and not South Dakota.

Second, he highlights a point made explicit in his report: Over half of the residents moving to rural communities come with college degrees. This trend has helped raise the educational attainment level of rural communities. In other words, the communities are getting smarter, not dumber, which leads to his last point.

Finally, using the word "brain drain" to describe the rural population movement creates problems for us as we try to move rural communities forward. As Ben writes, "the use of negative language to describe the dynamics of our small towns (brain drain, outmigration) makes it difficult to foresee a way forward for our rural people."

This last point is one that I've long agreed with. From my economic development specialist's perspective, using "brain drain" creates a marketing challenge. Why would we expect outsiders to look positively at our communities when we imply that the smart people are all moving away.

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Ben and I hope to get together sometime in the near future to discuss this and other issues. I'm open to the possibility of banishing the word from my vocabulary. But before I do, want to throw the topic out to our readers here at ReImagine Rural.

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December 22nd, 2009

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What is Community Wind?

Without drawing much attention to it, I've talked about community wind before. In a nutshell, community wind involves local ownership of wind turbines. The electricity produced by the turbines is usually sold to area utilities.

This model flies in the face of traditional wind farms, where a company builds and operates large wind farms. Because wind energy is the focus of their business, these companies develop both the expertise and economy of scale that drives down the cost of production.

But the downside to the traditional model is that it is dependent on the development of new transmission lines and causes a greater share of the financial impact from the turbines to bypass the local economy.

Why aren't there more community wind projects?

A simple answer to the question is that people who try to develop their own wind projects don't know how to overcome the barriers that pop up in the development process. "Lessons & Concepts for Advancing Community Wind" attempts to address these issues by providing case studies of three community wind projects: City of Willmar, MN; Winona County MN; and Miner County, SD. These three projects were selected for review because each took a very different path to completion.

I've written about both the Miner County and Winona County projects before (see here and here). The "Lessons & Concepts" guide, however, digs in much deeper. It would have been nice to have had this guide back in 2001 when we developed the Miner County Wind Project.

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Jamie (10:34): offered an example of a high school service-learning program that was helping build relationships.

There's really something to this notion that getting people involved in the community is important to attracting and retaining young people in the community. But as the Soul of the Community study notes, it's also important to the overall economic wellbeing of the community.

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