The Yonder Report - May 16, 2023
The Yonder Report
Americans are buying up rubber ducks ahead of Memorial Day, Nebraskans who want residential solar have a new lifeline, seven community colleges are working to provide students with a better experience, and Mississippi’s "Big Muddy" gets restoration help.
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The Yonder Report - May 9, 2024
The Yonder Report
Some small towns in North Dakota worry they’ll go to pot if marijuana is legalized, school vouchers are becoming a litmus test for Republicans, and Bennington, Vermont implements an innovative substance abuse recovery program.
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The Yonder Report - May 2, 2024
The Yonder Report
Bidding begins soon for Wyoming's elk antlers, Southeastern states gained population in the past year, small rural energy projects are losing out to bigger proposals, and a rural arts cooperative is filling the gap for schools in Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
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The Yonder Report - April 25, 2024
The Yonder Report
The urban-rural death divide is widening for working-age Americans, many home internet connections established for rural students during COVID have been broken and a new federal rule aims to put the "public" back in public lands.
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The Yonder Report - April 18, 2024
The Yonder Report
Rural Wyoming needs more vocational teachers to sustain its workforce pipeline, Ohio environmental advocates fear harm from a proposal to open 40-thousand forest acres to fracking and rural communities build bike trail systems to promote nature, boost the economy.
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The Yonder Report - April 11, 2024
The Yonder Report
Housing advocates fear rural low-income folks who live in aging USDA housing could be forced out, small towns are eligible for grants to enhance civic participation and North Carolina's small and Black-owned farms are helped by new wind and solar revenues.
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The Yonder Report - April 4, 2024
The Yonder Report
Rural populations have bounced back for two years running, more jobs are causing growing pains in Montana, Colorado wants school kids to eat better and boost rural ag communities, and Saint George, South Carolina is "Puttin' on the Grits."
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The Yonder Report - March 28, 2024
The Yonder Report
Historic wildfires could create housing and health issues for rural Texans, a Kentucky program helps prison parolees start a new life, and descendants of Nicodemus, Kansas celebrate the Black settlers who journeyed across the 1870s plains seeking self-governance.
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The Yonder Report - March 21, 2024
The Yonder Report
A labeling change could pay off for small farmers and ranchers who raise livestock and poultry, pandemic-related rural job loss bounced back but progress has stalled and rural housing is scarce for younger generations as older homeowners stay put.
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The Yonder Report - March 14, 2024
The Yonder Report
California’s extreme swing from floods to drought has some thinking it’s time to turn rural farm parcels into floodplains, what’s known as Medicare Advantage is squeezing the finances of rural hospitals and Midwest regenerative farmers are rethinking chicken.
info_outlineA new economic plan aims to bridge the gap between rural and progressive communities, a small Illinois town made history by electing a transgender woman to city council and a broadband merger in southern states has some worried customer service will decline.