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(1 vote) |  | Create Fab Labs
Fabrication Laboratory
Fab Labs: http://fab.cba.mit.edu/
An industry of the future, and it could work in small towns better than in big cities.... Read more
From Mark Anderson of Madelia, MN on 09/22/05
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(2 votes) | | Bring jobs to the people
Instead of only thinking about bringing rapid transit to the rural communities so people can more easily commute to larger communities for work, why not encourage businesses to locate in smaller commu... Read more
From Pamela Ellison of Saint Paul, MN on 07/12/05
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(3 votes) | | Build music instrument factories in minnesota
As a music teacher, I am constantly amazed, and disheartened, with the increasing amount of band instruments that are produced in foreign countries and shipped to the U.S. Many of these instruments a... Read more
From David Stordalen of St. James, MN on 06/19/05
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(3 votes) | | Focus on job growth
Job growth and overall employment are the two components I believe essential to the success of any area. I was raised in a small town and I immediately realized the lack of opportunity available for c... Read more
From Chris Morgan of Sioux Falls, SD on 05/31/05
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(14 votes) | | Support your local businesses
Small towns can wither and die. We need to support the local people who run our businesses and sustain our communities.
A few decades ago when I moved to town we had several shoe stores, several c... Read more
From Lowell Liedman of New Ulm, MN on 05/29/05
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(2 votes) | | Get a better web site
As a city dweller who wants to escape this summer to rural parts of the state, I rely on the internet to find places to go. Alas, many of these rural areas are thin on details as what to do.
Nothi... Read more
From D Austin of St. Paul, MN on 05/27/05
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(3 votes) | | Explore and support green tourism
Our non-profit, Renewing the Countryside, has been working with two rural Minnesota communities to explore how "green" tourism initiatives could strengthen local, rural economies.
Rural communities... Read more
From Jan Joannides of St. Paul, MN on 05/27/05
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(2 votes) | | Encourage sustainable, green manufacturing
Produce sustainable products and capitalize on the rise of green products and the price people are willing to pay for them.
Products such as furniture with sustainably harvested wood, fabric made... Read more
From Jen Sturtz of Minneapolis, MN on 05/26/05
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(4 votes) | | Raise the minimum wage
Raising the minimum wage will affect small town businesses and big box retail more than it will ever affect the rest of the economy.
As a package, those businesses who will be devastated by the ch... Read more
From Leland Rueb of Onamia, MN on 05/25/05
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(3 votes) | | Legalize industrial hemp
Small town rural America could have a "compact" stipulating that only farms of a certain size could grow industrial hemp.
People! South America and Africa both have plenty of sustainable land to f... Read more
From Leland Rueb of Onamia, MN on 05/25/05
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