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Investing for Rural Resilience

Shanna Ratner was a keynote speaker at the Canadian Centre for Rural Creativity 2018 Rural Talks to Rural Conference in Blyth, Ontario in October 2018. The title of her talk was "Investing for Rural…

Chasing the Dream on PBS

Shanna Ratner was featured along with our colleague and friend Jack Salo and others in the September 2018 premiere of Chasing the Dream, a WSKG Public Media (PBS) production looking at issues…

Not My Job: Creeping Customer Exploitation

Are you old enough to remember when it was not your job to pump your own gasoline? If not, let me share the world I grew up in. Gas stations were staffed with gas attendants. Those attendants were real…