Rural Community Consultants

05/09/2019

Come join a great team! Please visit https://jonesanddemille.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=129 to apply.

02/07/2018

Bringing broadband will help rural Colorado improve not only their economy, but bring much needed support to education and health care.

We are now into the third week of the 2018 legislative session and things are beginning to move fast.

02/06/2018

Governor Gary Herbert wants Utah to spend $22.5 million for the Tourism Marketing Performance Fund.

Governor Gary Herbert wants Utah to spend $22.5 million for the Tourism Marketing Performance Fund, focused primarily on drawing tourist to parts of rural Utah outside of the so-called "Mighty Five" National Parks. Today a number of industry and government tourism boosters gathered in the rotunda of...

02/05/2018

Getting high-speed internet service to rural communities is viewed as a matter of economic survival.

On Monday, the Colorado Senate will begin reviewing a bill that state Sen. Don Coram of Montrose hopes will solve the years-long debate about how...

02/04/2018

Gov. Hickenlooper spoke at length about the needs of rural Colorado... issues ranging from teacher shortages to economic development and rural broadband

In his final state of the state address, Gov. John Hickenlooper touted seven years of economic growth that saw Colorado lifted from the depths of the Great Recession to become one of the nation’s m…

02/03/2018

Placement of the new natural gas plant would benefit the western Colorado economy while fitting in with plans by Colorado and Utah to market the natural gas found in the region. http://ow.ly/3F6x30iasLS

02/02/2018

“He didn’t even hesitate,” said John Wade, a principal officer at BrainStorm. “He told us to reach out to a rural school or school district and ask the same question.”

For the past few months, BrainStorm has coordinated with Carbon School District to lay the foundation for a long-term relationship to bring hands-on STEM learning to kids.

01/11/2018

Accomplishing the restoration depends on cooperating with forest products industries because it would be prohibitively expensive for the Forest Service to thin the forest at public expense.

The Nature Conservancy's Future Forests project would make it economically viable to remove the young trees that make Arizona forests so dangerous.

01/10/2018

Wages are low. Turnover is high. Volunteerism is down. Costs are up.

Booming home values along the Front Range are triggering cascading statewide property tax cuts, providing relief to urban homeowners but squeezing rural government agencies where property values we…

01/09/2018

The lack of electricity on the Navajo Nation has long impacted residents.
http://ow.ly/gRin30hriKt

01/08/2018

The program http://ow.ly/LSbx30hriHF will help rural communities secure practitioners to serve residents.

01/07/2018

HealthEquity has already hired 30 employees at the satellite location and plans to bring on another 25 by the end of 2017.

When HealthEquity was faced with the ask of adding dozens of new employees to its customer service team, company leaders turned to Price, Utah.