There are three fundamental keys for rural communities to thrive, a study by management consulting firm McKinsey, says: sectors or tradeable industries, workforce, and community and connectivity.
There is a renewed focus on America’s vulnerability to two fundamental flaws in our economy: consolidation of businesses and outsourcing the manufacturing of too many critical products and components of products assembled in the U.S.
To combat the anti-democratic poison social media feeds into our political discourse Jonathon Haidt says we need to do three things: harden our democratic institutions, reform social media, and inoculate the next generation against the social media’s damaging impact.
In his piece for The Atlantic magazine, “Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid,” Jonathon Haidt compares what is happening to our political and social discourse today to the story of the Tower of Babble from the Bible.
“Achieving a more transparent and less manipulative media may well be the defining political battle of the 21st century,” Stephan Lewandowsky and Anastasia Kozyreva write in an article published by OpenMind magazine.
For decades, the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL) was a powerful political force in western Minnesota. Its candidates regularly won at the legislative, state executive office, and congressional levels. Those days are gone.
As we enter the 2022 political season, we expect to see an increasing number of letters to the editor submitted to the newspaper. Some of those letters will be from local residents and subscribers.
