The Yonder Report - August 21, 2025
The Yonder Report
Tribally-run programs in states like South Dakota have improved Native American healthcare on reservations, rural Texas communities could lose revenue from abandoned wind and solar projects and shale drilling in Ohio has not produced promised results.
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The Yonder Report - August 14, 2025
The Yonder Report
Climatologists are helping Appalachian states prepare for more intense and frequent hurricanes, Texas Hill Country ranchers are spending many thousands to recover from last month's flooding and manufactured home owners are vulnerable to heat-related illness and deaths.
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The Yonder Report - August 7, 2025
The Yonder Report
A double whammy could be coming for SNAP recipients in states like Texas, construction of AI data centers is plowing ahead in Indiana and descendants of a historic Jewish farming settlement in New Jersey safeguard its legacy.
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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.
info_outlineTribally-run programs in states like South Dakota have improved Native American healthcare on reservations, rural Texas communities could lose revenue from abandoned wind and solar projects and shale drilling in Ohio has not produced promised results.