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    February 1, 2019
    A tractor cultivates a field Aug. 23, 2017, on the 5000 block of 38th Street South in Fargo. Forum file photo
    Who's lonelier – city slickers or country folks? Results of this study might surprise you.
    FARGO — A new study out of the University of Minnesota looked at the differences between rural and urban residents when it comes to social...
    newsFebruary 1, 2019 - 4:31pm
    September 3, 2018
    Ed Lipinski turned his hobby and passion for old cars and pickup trucks into a business, opening E-Z Chassis Swaps to sell kits he designed making it possible to mount older model pickup trucks on the chassis of Chevrolet S10 pickups. Tom Cherveny /Forum News Service
    E-Z Chassis gives new life to pickups: Not to mention its small town Minnesota location
    WATSON, Minn. — No one knows how many old pickup trucks are out there hidden away in farm groves or under tarps in dusty sheds, barns or...
    business/small-businessSeptember 3, 2018 - 10:00pm
    August 27, 2018
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    Battle is underway for subsidized wireless service to rural areas
    Workers are dodging bobcats and feral hogs as they crisscross Oklahoma's westernmost sliver in trucks outfitted with electronic gear that tests...
    business/technologyAugust 27, 2018 - 1:44pm
    April 6, 2018
    Anika Pinke buys a North Dakota flag and stickers at J's Gift Shop and Craft Supply in Wishek, N.D. Katie Pinke / Forum News Service
    The benefits of bypassing online shopping to support your local, independent businesses
    WISHEK, N.D.—If we only shop online, never leaving our homes to buy in our communities and state, what will be left of our local economies?...
    business/agricultureApril 6, 2018 - 11:46am
    March 23, 2018
    Minnesota House Speaker Kurt Daudt listens during a late-February 2018 legislative committee hearing. He says he does not plan to run for higher office. Don Davis / Forum News Service
    Capitol Chatter: Minnesotans look to Washington
    ST. PAUL — State and local governmental decisions often are felt more than things happening in Washington, but not in recent days. Minnesotans,...
    news/government-and-politicsMarch 23, 2018 - 2:40pm
    January 22, 2018
    Commentary: It's time to stand up for research and extension
    That the North Dakota State Board of Agricultural Research and Education decided not to start charging low-population counties more money for extension services can be hailed as a victory for rural areas. Towns that have seen people and businesses move out won't see their extension...
    business/agricultureJanuary 22, 2018 - 6:30am
    January 4, 2018
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    Farm Bureau, Farmers Union team up to confront rural opioid addiction
    WASHINGTON — Seventy five percent of farmers and farm workers surveyed in conjunction with an online study say they are or have been directly...
    business/agricultureJanuary 4, 2018 - 1:08pm
    December 31, 2017
    Dust drifts over a cornfield in Alden, Iowa, on Aug. 28, 2017. Corn dominates the landscape and is primarily used for producing ethanol and feeding hogs. Iowa is the leading U.S. producer of corn and pork. Washington Post photo by Bonnie Jo Mount
    'Smothered' and 'shoved aside' in rural America
    BUCKEYE, Iowa - "Come on! Come on! Go girls!" Annette Sweeney was on horseback, hollering at her chocolate-colored cows on a perfect Iowa morning,...
    newsDecember 31, 2017 - 9:30am
    September 14, 2017
    The plains of North Dakota are seen from an aircraft about 45 miles from the North Dakota and Canada border. (Bridget Bennett/The New York Times)
    Think rural areas are falling behind? Think again.
    We've heard a lot about America's struggling rural areas in the past year. Forgotten America, where men and women lead hardscrabble lives marked...
    newsSeptember 14, 2017 - 11:39am
    September 4, 2017
    Cars don't stay clean on gravel roads. Jenny Schlecht / Forum News Service
    Jenny Schlecht: Dirt road woes for Bluey/Greeny
    Not long after my older daughter learned her colors, she assigned names to our vehicles: My Ford Escape was "Reddy," and my old Ford Escape that...
    newsSeptember 4, 2017 - 7:32am
    Katie Pinke on Aug. 28, 2017, visited her great-great aunt Iris Westman on her 112th birthday and learned about Iris's first birthday party, on the occasion of her seventh birthday.
    112-year-old shares birthday memories
    Do you remember your 7th birthday party? Iris Westman has seen 105 years pass since hers, but she shared with me in great detail her memories...
    newsSeptember 4, 2017 - 6:43am
    September 3, 2017
    Nicole Anderson of Essentia Health-St. Joseph's Medical Center in Brainerd watches as Dr. Sandra Hanon talks from the Twin Cities on a video device stroke doctors use to help medical professionals. Don Davis / Forum News Service
    Rural health: Smile, you are on telehealth camera
    ELY, Minn. — Angie Lundsten was thrilled. The Hayward, Wis., woman sat in her local medical clinic telling Dr. Stephen Park she had lost...
    lifestyle/healthSeptember 3, 2017 - 1:33pm
    September 2, 2017
    Rural Minnesota struggles when competing for doctors
    Editor's note: This is one of several stories about what is called a rural Minnesota health care crisis. Primary-care doctors, long the cornerstone...
    newsSeptember 2, 2017 - 6:55am
    The Bigfork Valley health care complex includes a clinic, hospital, nursing home, adult day care, senior citizen apartments and other faciliies. Submitted photo.
    Rural health: Two small Minnesota hospitals learn how to survive
    Editor's note: This is one of several stories about what is called a rural Minnesota health care crisis. BIGFORK, Minn. — Small-town...
    newsSeptember 2, 2017 - 3:30am
    September 1, 2017
    In late August 2017, Howard Cronquist looks at a picture his wife, Sharon, holds of the two of them and Essentia Health-St. Joseph's Medical Center workers who helped him recover from a stroke last year. He was treated at the Brainerd hospital, by the local staff and a video-connected Twin Cities-based neurologist. Don Davis / Forum News Service
    Rural health: Health professional shortages force changes
    BRAINERD, Minn. — Howard Cronquist baled hay the other day, and also fit in some time to work on one of his farm buildings. That may not...
    lifestyle/healthSeptember 1, 2017 - 2:31pm
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