WATERTOWN, SD – Farmers and ranchers sit on the boards of most of South Dakota’s remaining telephone cooperatives. For more than a century, they have been surprisingly innovative when it comes to providing telephone service to their members. I had a chance to present an overview of The New Pioneers to the members of the [...]

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Across the Great Plains, rural communities have been losing population for more than four generations. Today, new pioneers, enabled by a technological revolution in communications, are moving or returning to these communities searching for a quality of life that has become elusive in urban and suburban America.
This diffusion of population to rural America has [...]

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