Ground Level Blog

GPS devices installed on Baldwin’s snowplows could help the township create more efficient routes. Should Baldwin pursue them?
Caledonia, Minn., is considering putting delinquent water and sewer bills on the tax bill of a property. It’s one more small attempt to deal with the financial squeeze Minnesota cities find themselves in.
Small producers of farm products would be exempt from new safety regulations in a bill the Senate passed today. Proponents of local food worried that new rules would be too great a burden for small farmers.
Todd County is seeing the same good news on heart health that patients elsewhere are getting.
Mark Erickson, Winthrop city administrator and proponent of a community network proposal to bring broadband to Sibley County, says if private providers wanted to create the network, they would be welcome.