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Partnerships With Electric Utilities Can Help Expand Broadband Access

How investor-owned utilities provide infrastructure to bring high-speed internet to rural America

Smarter Planning for Rural Communities

Many rural communities face growing demographic and economic challenges. Smart planning can help anticipate and respond to these problems, allowing communities to take control of their destinies.

Should States Fund Municipal Broadband and Cooperatives?

Municipal broadband is booming, growing 600 percent since 2018. These alternatives to private-sector Internet service promise better access and affordability to communities. But are they really cost-effective?

10 Essential Things to Do When Starting Your First Business

Successful founders weigh in on the issues you need to think about–and the ones everyone forgets to–when you’re getting ready to launch.

Billings, Montana-based Elation offers neuroscience-based approach to curb worker burnout

20% of public health officers in Montana left their jobs during the pandemic, largely because of the way they were being treated.

SpaceX Starlink internet service gets more reliable, and mobile

Starlink is becoming an increasingly viable alternative to incumbent providers in rural areas — if you don’t mind waiting on the list until 2023, and if you can stomach the cost of the Starlink dish and wireless router, which just went up by $100 to $599, along with an $11 increase in the service fee, to $110/month.

War-Fueled Global Hunger Catastrophe On The Way With Solutions Tough To Come By

Disrupted exports, drought, refugees to feed and record-high fertilizer prices conspire to spread food insecurity worldwide.

The secret to women’s leadership that can drive such a positive impact

We found that by driving more engaged employees, women leaders save their organizations $1.43 million for every 1,000 employees.

Rural America Loses Affordable Rental Housing at an Alarming Rate

In the last five years, more than 20,000 rental units have left the USDA’s affordable housing program — nearly three times the predicted number. Tenants of these properties can lose USDA rental support and see rent prices rise simultaneously.

How the pandemic housing market spurred buyer’s remorse across America

According to Real Estate Witch, home values increased nearly 20% between September 2020 and September 2021, with many millennials maxing out their budget and then later regretting it. NPR heard from a lot of first-time homeowners who made compromises to secure a house of their own, in part because they wanted so badly out of the high rental market.