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In Rural Florida Community, Education Starts with GEDs and Learning English
Editor’s Note: A version of this story first appeared in Mile Markers, a twice monthly newsletter from Open Campus about the role of colleges in rural America. You can join the mailing list at the bottom of this article to receive future editions in your inbox. A rural Florida...
Safe and Stable Housing Is a Foundation of Successful Recovery
Amy Drum has a new grandbaby she’s eager to get home to see. Drum, who lives in the town of Lincolnton, in North Carolina’s Piedmont region, had been free of heroin and methamphetamine for a good while before relapsing. It was pretty rough going for a time. She eventually got into treatment.
Embracing a Philosophy of Change
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in Keep It Rural, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Like what you see? Join the mailing list for more rural news, thoughts, and analysis in your inbox each week. On the last day of June, just three days after one...
Expert: Rural Hospitals Are Particularly Vulnerable to Increasing Cyberattacks Targeting Healthcare Facilities
A policy paper examining cybersecurity and threats found that cyberattacks at healthcare facilities have increased more than 125% since last year, with rural hospitals being especially vulnerable. Jenny Niblock, chief clinical officer at CItizens Health in Colby, Kansas, is co-author of. “Cybersecurity: A path to increase rural health care preparedness,”...
Montana Creates Emergency ‘Drive-Thru’ Blood Pickup Service for Rural Ambulances
This story was originally published by KFF Health News. Crystal Hiwalker wonders if her heart and lungs would have kept working if the ambulance crew had been able to give her a transfusion as the blood drained from her body during a stormy, 100-mile ride. Because of the 2019 snowstorm,...
What Is Your Home’s Wildfire Risk?
A newly updated wildfire risk map could help level the playing field for rural communities who don’t have the resources to conduct their own wildfire risk assessments, according to the independent research group Headwaters Economics. The map, first created by the U.S. Forest Service under the direction of Congress...
Can Dems Keep Winning in Indian Country?
This story was originally published by Montana Free Press. Tribal communities have for decades been an essential part of the voter base that gives Montana Democrats the ability to make competitive bids for statewide office. A close look at turnout figures for June 4 party primaries in the state’s eight majority-Native districts, however, indicates there may be cracks in that coalition, with voter turnout in those districts’ Republican primaries outstripping the number of Democrats who cast ballots.
Review: Building a Writing Life
Wendell Berry’s instructions to rural writers to move back home for renewed artistic inspiration and fulfillment has been followed nearly to the point of cliché. The Kentucky poet, who is the urban literati’s image of perfect rural contentment, writes of his own move from Manhattan to his birthplace, “There was the assumption that the life of the metropolis is the experience, the modern experience, and that the life of the rural towns, the farms, the wilderness places is not only irrelevant to our time, but archaic as well because unknown or unconsidered by the people who really matter—that is, the urban intellectual.” So he got out of town, and tells all thoughtful writers to do the same.
Q&A: Should Crop Insurance Be Subsidized?
Editor’s Note: This interview first appeared in Path Finders, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. Like what you see here? You can join the mailing list at the bottom of this article and receive more conversations like this in your inbox each week.
Small-Town Philanthropies Use the Great Wealth Transfer to Fund Rural Communities
In the next 20 years, about $84 trillion will change hands from one generation to the next, and small-town philanthropies hope to capture some of that wealth for the benefit of historically underfunded rural communities. Economists call it the Great Wealth Transfer. Although some experts worry the transfer might reinforce...
More Rural Entertainment Recommendations for Your Summer Watchlist
Editor’s Note: A version of this story first appeared in The Good, the Bad, and the Elegy, a newsletter from the Daily Yonder focused on the best, and worst, in rural media, entertainment, and culture. Every other Thursday, it features reviews, retrospectives, recommendations, and more. You can join the mailing list at the bottom of this article to receive future editions in your inbox.
A Rural Calling: Jennifer Bacani McKenney
Scarfing a hot dog, chugging a beer, then looping the town square while brandishing a kielbasa baton is not the sort of behavior Jennifer Bacani McKenney, a family physician, would routinely advise. But, hey, once a year? Why the heck not, if for a worthy cause?. That McKenney is the...
Supreme Court’s Grants Pass Decision Could Set Precedent for Homelessness in Other Rural Counties
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in Keep It Rural, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Like what you see? Join the mailing list for more rural news, thoughts, and analysis in your inbox each week. June is nearly over, which means the U.S. Supreme Court will...
New State-Level Commission out of Pennsylvania Hones in on Rural Population Decline
A new commission set up by the state of Pennsylvania aims to take on a question facing many rural communities across the country: what can be done about declining populations?. In Pennsylvania, the estimates are stark. Several counties are expected to lose more than 10% of their population by 2050, according to a report from the Center for Rural Pennsylvania. Statewide, the Center reported that rural counties face a 5.8% decline over the next 25 years.
Study: Dollar Stores’ Entry Into Rural Communities Adds to Rural Grocery Challenges
The influx of dollar stores into the rural landscape can have a devastating effect on grocery stores and other small businesses in rural areas, research has found. When dollar stores move into a rural area, independent grocery stores are more likely to close, says a new study released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Employment and sales fall at grocery stores wherever a dollar store is located, the researchers found, but in rural areas the effects are more profound.
In West Virginia’s ‘Poultry Capital,’ Immigrant Workers Struggle to Find the Help and Support They Need
This story was originally published by Mountain State Spotlight. Tatiana had two options after she lost her job in 2020, and both of them broke her heart. The first was to stay in Honduras, a country where more than half of the people live in poverty. With no new job opportunities, Tatiana knew she and her two young children would struggle to survive.
Texas Nonprofit Works With Volunteer GIS Expert to Map Broadband Need
An unexpected volunteer, a geographic information system (GIS) mapping expert helped a rural community in Texas establish its broadband connection. Bernie South is the GIS volunteer who mapped the data using information from the Census, school district hotpost addresses and areas of growth in the county. A former U.S. Navy electronics technician and geoscientist at Exxon Mobil, South has been retired for about a decade.
In One of the Most Dangerous Workplaces in West Virginia, a Poultry Giant has Profited from Immigrant Labor for Decades
This story was originally published by Mountain State Spotlight. On a rainy afternoon in 2020, Pilgrim’s Pride’s West Virginia chicken factory was dirty. The slaughterhouse has sharp metal hooks, deboning knives and conveyor belts. The machinery butchers over a million live birds every week and is constantly covered with animal grime.
Ozarks Notebook: Selling the Family Farm, Saving the Memories
I remember the hot, muggy night in 2004 when my family gathered at the Greenfield City Park and were presented with a sign for our Missouri Century Farm. The program, led by University of Missouri (MU) Extension, recognizes farms across the state that meet certain qualifications, and, as the name indicates, have been in the same families for at least 100 years.
Q&A: The Myth of the Rural West, with Writer Betsy Gaines Quammen
The American West is Edenic, infinite and free, wild and wide-open space – or at least, this is what our stories tell us about the places west of the 100th meridian. But who controls these stories, and are any of them true?. This is the question historian and writer...
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