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How Do You Buy Groceries When There’s No Grocery Store? These Communities Figured It Out.
This story was originally published by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance. When a new mobile grocery market launched in Wayne County, Pennsylvania, its first stop was Maple City Apartments, a 40-unit complex for low-income, elderly relatives. Maple City’s residents have felt the region’s lack of grocery stores acutely. The nearest full-service grocery store is at least five miles away, which leaves few options for people who don’t have access to a car or good public transit. But the County’s residents can now buy groceries from a farmers market on wheels.
Biden Touts Rural Achievements as Part of “Barnstorming” Tour
The Biden administration is in the final days of a two-week national rural “barnstorm” designed to take the administration’s accomplishments to rural America, which could be a pivotal part of the 2024 presidential election. President Biden kicked off the tour with a speech at Dutch Creek Farms,...
45 Degrees North: Who You Gonna Call?
Recently, a friend and I were talking about things we’re doing to make our lives a little easier as we age. She mentioned putting garbage from their weekend cottage into the trash container at a nearby park. “That’s OK, isn’t it?”. I’m glad she asked, so...
Q&A: How Does Geography Play a Part in Rural Identity and Politics?
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.
Rural Voters Shift Toward Democrat in Kentucky Governor’s Race
Rural voters were part of a statewide shift toward incumbent Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear this week, helping give the Democrat a 5-point election victory in a state that Donald Trump won by over 25 points three years ago. Beshear won the statewide vote 52.5% to 47.5%, a comfortable margin compared...
West Alabama Programs Help Recruit and Teach Rural Teachers
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. For Kendall Goldman,...
Rural Vermont Community Finds Success Distributing Narcan With a Vending Machine
Recovery from addiction is possible. For help, please call the free and confidential treatment referral hotline (1-800-662-HELP) or visit findtreatment.gov. In January 2020, a 17-year-old young man died of an opioid overdose in Johnson, a rural community in northern Vermont. Such a tragedy naturally reverberates in a town of barely...
Rural Voters Swing More than 20 Points from Trump in 2020 to Abortion Rights in 2023
Rural voters in Ohio on Tuesday were part of a general shift away from Republican Party priorities, resulting in a victory for a state constitutional amendment protecting abortion rights. Statewide, the measure protecting access to abortion and other reproductive rights passed 56% to 44%. The vote represents a dramatic departure...
Small Southern City Deals with the Pride – and Pain – of Its Civil Rights History
Downtown Clinton, Tennessee, looks like any one of thousands of American downtowns. In the summer, the streets are given over to antique festivals and classic cars. In the fall there’s a steady stream of customers at the lunch counter at Hoskins Drug Store, the town’s historic pharmacy. But...
Black Churches Play a Key Role in Connecting Rural Communities to Broadband Internet
This story was originally published by Religion News Service. In the riverfront city of New Bern, North Carolina, Peletah Ministries, like many houses of worship since Covid-19 struck, offers Sunday services to those who can’t get to church for health or other reasons. But in these days of Zoom and other internet-based communications, the stay-at-home congregants still dial in to the service via a conference call on the ministry’s toll-free 800 number — a landline.
USDA Report Analyzes Three of Its Rural Broadband Programs and Their Reach
A new report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture examines three broadband programs and if they were able to reach the target audiences. The report looked at three programs: The Broadband Initiatives Program (BIP) was the largest of them in terms of funds obligated during the study period, with about $3.6 billion in grants and loans in Fiscal Year 2010. ReConnect obligated $1.5 billion in grants and loans from Fiscal Year 2019 to Fiscal Year 2021, and Community Connect obligated $253 million in grants from Fiscal Year 2009 to Fiscal Year 2021.
Everyone Deserves Quality Journalism, No Matter Where They Live
For years, journalism has been in decline as small and large newsrooms across the country close their doors. News deserts abound in rural America especially, where the shuttering of local newspapers has left small towns without access to essential information about their communities. This is where we come in. For...
Rural Health Care Figures Prominently in 2023’s Limited Political Races
Although 2023 is a relatively light election year, the attention rural health care is receiving in a handful of gubernatorial and legislative races could signal the issue’s importance in the much more consequential 2024 election season. In Kentucky, Louisiana and Mississippi, gubernatorial candidates are squaring off over whether to...
Lawmakers Tackled New Mexico’s Crisis of Rural Health Care Workers. It Wasn’t Enough
This story was originally published by New Mexico In Depth. As the crow flies, the Pojoaque Primary Care Center is about 20 miles from New Mexico’s 400-plus-year-old capital, Santa Fe, with its art galleries, well-known opera and tourist destinations. But it’s 45 minutes by car from Dr. Mario Pacheco’s home on Santa Fe’s south side.
With ‘Only’ 2 Million Matchsticks Left, Artist Shifts Focus to His Hometown Legacy
It’s 10 a.m. in Gladbrook, Iowa, and down in the workshop in his basement, Pat Acton is doing what he does almost every morning: picking up matchsticks and gluing them together, one at a time. And he’s apologizing. Consistently. To me. Not the matchsticks. First about moving too...
Q&A: A Minnesota Housing Justice Group Puts a New Spin on ‘A Prairie Home Companion’
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.
Accidental Rancher: Going to the Farm
When I was a youngster, I had a black-and-white cat named Manny. He was an easy cat to love with a jovial disposition until we moved into a house that had once been home to an incontinent dog. My parents pulled up the carpet and laid down beautiful wood floors,...
Solar Eclipse Sheds Light on Labor Cultural Nuances in Rural Utah
Vance Nielson owns the only gas station in Bluff, Utah. His storage capacity maxes out around 10,000 gallons of fuel, enough to fill about 500 cars. Typically, this is more than enough to service the rural town, whose population is less than 300. But when Ann Leppanen, the mayor of...
Breaking Down Barriers Through Music
Emmanuel Black Bear hopes that he and other Indigenous musicians are breaking down negative stereotypes by performing with the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra. Black Bear, who is Lakota, has been performing with the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra as part of the Lakota Music Project for nearly two decades – since it started.
In Puerto Rico, Rural Residents Wait for Accountability, Cleanup of Toxic Coal Ash
This story was originally published by Energy News Network. After Sol Piñeiro retired from bilingual special education in New Jersey public schools, she bought a dream house in Salinas on Puerto Rico’s south coast, near the town where she was born. She and her husband built a traditional...
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