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Selma, Alabama, once a storied center of agriculture and the civil rights movement, faces economic stagnation in the wake of a decline in agricultural employment.
Entrepreneurs across rural America are increasingly recognizing that small towns offer distinct advantages for building successful startups. The CORI Entrepreneurship Team recently visited Independence, OR to study startup accelerator feasibility.
The new BEAD rules have caused fiber providers to take a second look at applying to BEAD. Fiber applicants need to reassess whether applying still makes strategic sense for their customers and their long-term business strategy.
One of the most important and sometimes underutilized partners for rural communities envisioning a more tech-driven future already exists in the heart of many rural places: colleges and universities.
Cullman County, Alabama, is a fast-growing community conveniently located between two of the state’s largest cities: Huntsville and Birmingham. Like many rural areas, it has historically had limited access to high-speed broadband. That changed with
McKenzie County, in the heart of North Dakota’s Bakken oil patch, blends boomtown energy with rural resilience.
Why is rural America perceived as being perpetually in decline? In part, because superstar rural counties often grow into run-of-the-mill urban counties.
Building tech talent pipelines in rural America is a critical need, and CORI's unique model and network of communities demonstrates how it can be effectively achieved.
From downtown placemaking to broadband planning and economic research, data-driven analysis remained at the heart of CORI’s work this past year.
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