Ground Level Blog

A northern Minnesota telecom cooperative is putting on hold plans to extend its fiber network, citing changes in the way the government plans to allocate Universal Service Fund money.
Why move to rural Minnesota?
We asked sources in our Public Insight Network why they had moved to (or back to) rural Minnesota and how the experience has been. The benefits and challenges seem to break down into three categories: community, lifestyle and economics. Here’s what some of our sources had to say.