• Rural healthcare access needs to be further funded and have the companies providing it incentivized to maintain and expand providers and specialists in underserved areas.

  Critical access programs such as childbirth need to be prioritized so that people are not trying to drive over 60 miles in -40 degree weather in the middle of winter to have a baby.

  Scope of care could be expanded to let GP's and others to provide certain levels of care to reduce wait times for specialists and improve lives.
• Senior care especially in rural areas is a difficult task that must be taken seriously. Many people have lived in their communities for fifty, sixty, seventy years and do not wish to have to leave them for larger areas they are unfamiliar with to have access to the same basic level of care and services. Providing the funding through medicare/medicaid reimbursement for our nursing homes can let them hire individuals at a hirer rate, retaining those already working, and provide enough staff to keep our seniors in the local communities they want to be a part of.
• Invest in equitable education funding to ensure that all of Minnesota children have the best access to public education no matter where their might live. Rural schools and inner city schools suffer from the same lack of tax base that the current system uses to fund education. We must strive to ensure a fair system that allows all children the same opportunities.

I had to fly back and forth between California and Minnesota often due to a split house. I remember before it was easy and simple. Get to the airport, whoever I was with at the time would take me straight to the gate and we would be able to be together until it was time for the plane to leave.
After it happened everything became security theater. No shoes, no belts, no parents to put their kids on a plane, metal detectors became fully body detectors. So much change at the airport to make people seem safe.

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• Defending Democracy means that everyone that is able to vote is able to vote. Mail in voting and early voting should be the standard in Minnesota along with traditional day of cast ballot. Weather, loose cows, or a long commute shouldnt prevent you from being able to do your civic duty as an American.
• Education reform doesn't have to be drastic, but it does have to be effective. Paying our school staff a proper salary, providing incentives for keeping and hiring new rural teachers, creating a school supply trust fund from a cannabis tax, providing alternatives to traditional four year college. Small changes can make a large difference.
• Affordable housing is one of the biggest barriers to entry for becoming an adult. Many children end up growing up and moving to places that they can afford causing brain drain in our already small rural community. We need to get rural development funded and our towns growing.

Education reform including non-traditional trade schooling for those not wanting a four year college. Our School staff needs to be compensated fairly. Our kids need more access to mental health in school. We need to show viable paths to success for those that are turned off of the idea of traditional four year higher education.

Making early voting and mail in voting standard in all of Minnesota - The elderly that cannot make it out safely, A massive blizzard in November, Cows that got loose. There are so many things that can stop someone from being able to vote on the one day that we have traditionally when there is truly no reason anymore. Many areas of MN1A are already on mail in voting. We should protect and expand on it so everyone has this opportunity if that is the way that they choose to vote.

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