The Yonder Report - November 13, 2025
The Yonder Report
A voting shift by Virginia's rural Republicans helped Democrats win the November governor's race; Louisiana is adopting new projects to help rural residents adapt to climate change and as Thanksgiving approaches, Indiana is responding to more bird flu.
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The Yonder Report - November 6, 2025
The Yonder Report
Farmers are being squeezed by trade wars and the government shutdown, ICE tactics have alarmed a small Southwest Colorado community where agents used tear gas to subdue local protestors and aquatic critters help Texans protect their water.
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The Yonder Report - October 30, 2025
The Yonder Report
States like Vermont are learning the hard way that FEMA funds for natural disasters are not guaranteed, folks in the Adirondacks' Lake George have developed a model for reducing salt runoff and microplastics are common in Minnesota's waterways.
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The Yonder Report - October 23, 2025
The Yonder Report
The expired farm bill leaves many popular programs in limbo, a complicated fight is brewing over four-day school weeks in New Mexico, while volunteers help preserve the state's 300-year old Pecos Mission Church.
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The Yonder Report - October 16, 2025
The Yonder Report
Rural Americans are cutting back on basics amid struggles to afford child care, conservation groups have appealed a ruling that prevents Iowans from knowing how much factory farms pollute their air and renewable energy is coming to Arizona's ancient pueblos.
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The Yonder Report - October 9, 2025
The Yonder Report
Rural grassroots organizers in Arizona band together to take on industrial developers, health care cuts threaten California's homegrown solutions to rural doctor shortages and the Navajo Nation is reshaping the future of its education system.
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The Yonder Report - October 2, 2025
The Yonder Report
Iowans urge Congress to defeat legislation meant to prohibit lawsuits against chemical companies when their products cause cancer, Texas aims to help those in residential care facilities survive extreme weather events while other states turn to 'resilience hubs' for natural disaster support.
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The Yonder Report - September 25, 2025
The Yonder Report
Champions of rural America want Congress to support programs that drive local success, cuts to Medicaid in Idaho could leave more rural mothers without care and Black clergy double as healthcare professionals in a Virginia Church.
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The Yonder Report - September 18, 2025
The Yonder Report
Mobile MRI units in North Dakota improve residents' health and save hospitals money, owners of older manufactured housing are getting help to cope with extreme temperatures and western states restore river health using a low-tech 'sticks and stones' approach.
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The Yonder Report - September 11, 2025
The Yonder Report
The Navajo Nation plans to double the money it spends on students and tribal colleges, oyster farmers in Maine combat air and water pollution with a switch to electric boats, and Ohioans celebrate a court ruling on coal ash pollution.
info_outlineDOGE is gutting a 30-year old national service program, cuts are likely but Head Start may be spared elimination in the next budget, moms are the most vulnerable when extreme weather hits and there's a croaking sound coming from rural California.