Rural Resurrection

Preparing Your Community for COVID-19

One week after last year’s Nebraska Planning Conference bomb cyclones and floods hit the Midwest, wreaking havoc on community after community. A week after this year’s conference the nation has… Read more »

Severe Weather Awareness Week is Community-Wide

On an annual basis, each state holds Severe Weather Preparedness / Awareness Weeks to increase the awareness and our response to severe weather hazards. Although this week is not standardized… Read more »

Nebraska Planning Conference – 2020

Once again we are speeding toward March with reckless abandon. Spring is just around the corner and so too is conference season. Each year these events give us not just… Read more »

Nebraska Towns Submit for HGTV Home Town

A few weeks ago I reported about HGTV’s spin off of their TV show Home Town. Erin and Bill Napier’s hit series Home Town will be expanded to renovate a… Read more »

APA Seeking Disaster Recovery Guinea Pig

The past year has been a tough one for a number of communities throughout the Midwest. Floods have ravaged communities, creating a large swath of destruction that many are still… Read more »

Implementation Month: The Committee

It’s National Implementation Month! Last week we discussed the Implementation Matrix. But the matrix is worthless without someone to actually work on the implementation actions. In small towns across the… Read more »

HGTV Renovate My Town!

Have you ever sat there watching an HGTV home renovation show and thought, “I can handle my house just fine, this WHOLE TOWN needs renovation!” Ok…most of you probably don’t… Read more »

Implementation Month: The Matrix

As you now know, Rural Resurrection has declared January as National Implementation Month. So let the festivities begin! But where do you start? Take that comprehensive plan down of the… Read more »

January is National Implementation Month

Back in October for National Planning Month I wrote an article entitled, “Implementation, the Lost Step in Comprehensive Planning“. This article delved into the fact that implementation is the most… Read more »