Hey, it's Ben with a preview of the next municipal equation. First, real quick. I forgot to mention last time that I was a guest on the skate park podcast from the Tony Hawk Foundation just recently. It's a really, really great podcast if you're interested in the intersection of skateboarding and civics. The Tony Hawk Foundation, for example, offers grants to municipalities and other entities for the creation of public skate parks. And they really encourage the involvement of kids in the process. Cool way to pair kids in government for a positive experience. The foundation does a lot more than that, but that's what we focus on in episode 17 of the skate park podcast, I was a guest. You can hear that at tonyhawkfoundation.org/podcast. Okay. Moving on to the preview of next week's episode of Municipal Equation. Actually picking right up where we left off last time by looking at broadband and how it's clearly a force toward closing what everyone calls the urban rural divide. The urban urban rural divide has a lot of meaning to a lot of different people and I think that was one of the reasons why we were really interested in doing this report. There's a lot of adversity and a lot of missed nuance.

definitions that we hold in our minds start to fall apart a little bit. We talked with the authors of a new report about what the urban rural divide really means and what it looks like when you really investigate. So for example, we found that, there are three key ways,

economic growth. That's on the next Municipal Equation, a podcast about cities and towns adapting in the face of change. New episodes every other Tuesday from the North Carolina League of Municipalities. Head over to nclm.org/municipalequation. Subscribe on iTunes or Google Play to make it easy, or find it on virtually any podcast app you want. If you enjoyed the podcast in any way, we'd love to hear why with a friendly iTunes review. Thanks so much. We'll talk to you next week, April 17. Still battling a cold. This is Ben Brown.