The Yonder Report - July 31, 2025
The Yonder Report
Experts are skeptical a new rural health slush fund will fill Medicaid gaps, Colorado officials protest public land management cuts and tribes and rural communities sue the EPA over cancelled funding for flood and climate mitigation projects.
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The Yonder Report - July 24, 2025
The Yonder Report
America's news desert problem could get worse with massive funding cuts to public broadcasting, federal cuts to AmericaCorps will eliminate volunteers in rural Oregon and a 140-year old South Dakota church thrives by welcoming all.
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The Yonder Report - July 17, 2025
The Yonder Report
Cuts in money for clean energy could hit rural mom and-pop businesses hard, Alaska's effort to boost its power grid with wind and solar is threatened and a small Kansas school district is attracting new students with a focus on agriculture.
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The Yonder Report - July 10, 2025
The Yonder Report
Rural Americans are bracing for a disproportionate impact from federal funding cuts to mental health and substance use programs, and new federal policies have farmers from Ohio to Minnesota struggling to grow healthier foods and create sustainable food production programs.
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The Yonder Report - July 3, 2025
The Yonder Report
Farmers embrace voluntary conservation programs but federal funding chaos is causing a rethink, a rural electric cooperative in Colorado hopes to reduce customer costs by going independent and LGBTQ+ teens say online support is a lifesaver.
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The Yonder Report - June 26, 2025
The Yonder Report
A commissioner on the FCC contends the Trump Administration is weakening freedom of speech and the press, a New Mexico town is building an innovative green hydrogen plant and Texas could soon face even more rural hospital closures.
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The Yonder Report - June 19, 2025
The Yonder Report
Hurricane Helene mobilized the community of Marshall, North Carolina in unexpected ways, giant data centers powering AI want cheap rural land but can face community pushback and ceramics made by Cherokee potters honor multiple generations.
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The Yonder Report - June 12, 2025
The Yonder Report
Rural areas that could use more EV charging stations face a Catch-22, improving the mental health of children and teachers is the goal of a new partnership in seven states and a once segregated Mississippi movie theater is born again.
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The Yonder Report - June 5, 2025
The Yonder Report
Citizens of a rural North Carolina town hit by Hurricane Helene fight to reopen their post office, the loss of a federal mining safety program could harm workers and wood-firing potters carry the torch in rural North Carolina.
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The Yonder Report - May 29, 2025
The Yonder Report
Immigrants are driving rural population growth, especially in Texas, North Carolina, and Iowa, ICE agents are targeting immigrant labor groups along with their leaders and Louisiana's T-Rey's lures customers with hogshead cheese and boudin.
info_outlineMany fear the Trump administration's effort to raise money fast could include the sale of public lands, thousands of farmers are waiting for payouts frozen by the USDA and a shortage has rural America’s doctors coming out of retirement.