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Thomas Friedman: Rural America's broadband needs Kamala Harris In Minnesota, small towns like Willmar that can manage inclusion and diversity are the ones now thriving, because they can attract new labor and homebuyers when so many of the young white adults have left for the big cities. .... In Minnesota, small towns like Willmar that can manage inclusion and diversity are the ones now thriving, because they can attract new labor and homebuyers when so many of the young white adults have left for the big cities. Written By: Thomas L. Friedman | 5:00 pm, Dec. 17, 2020 ×...

Thomas L. Friedman: Kamala Harris deserves a more important job Put her in charge of closing the gaps — in opportunity, connectivity and learning, and thus in anger and alienation — between rural America and the rest of the country. (Lessons from Minnesota.)  By Thomas L. Friedman New York Times December 16, 2020 — 11:24am Text si...

Dec. 15, 2020 I was speaking recently to Matt Dunne, founder of the Center on Rural Innovation, which promotes digital economic development in small-town America, and he was telling me about a Vermont community near his home with a great public library: “You could drive by on any Sunday and the parking lot would be full,” he said. “There was just one problem: The library was closed on Sundays.” The parking lot was full of cars with kids doing their homework and adults doing their office work — using the wireless connectivity spilling out of the empty building because their rural hom...