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Rural Letter Carriers Gather in Washington, D.C. to Oppose Privatization of the U.S. Postal Service
On Tuesday, March 25, rural letter carriers from across the country gathered in front of the U.S. Capitol building in ...
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Closures of EPA’s Regional Environmental Justice Offices Will Hurt Rural America
Environmental justice efforts at the ten U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regional offices have stopped and ...
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Commerce Secretary’s Proposal to Prioritize Satellite Over Fiber Internet Would ‘Strand’ Rural Communities, Experts Say
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick proposed changes to a federal broadband connectivity program that would favor Low ...
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45 Degrees North: Getting Affairs in Order
I’m not much of a gambler, unless you count the occasional bar dice shake at a Wisconsin tavern or a lifetime of dodging deer on country roads. But I’m of ...
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Through Public Speaking, This High School Footballer Who Lost His Legs Continues to Inspire
About a year ago there was a video making its way around the internet. It was Carlos Valdez catching a football for a ...
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Q&A: Does USDA’s Spending Freeze Undermine the Legitimacy of a Government Contract?
This interview first appeared in Path Finders, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a ...
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Where Do Broadband Deserts Overlap with Healthcare Provider Shortages?
This post is from our data newsletter, the Rural Index, headed by Sarah Melotte, the Daily Yonder’s data reporter. Subscribe ...
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GOP Cuts to Medicaid Could Threaten Rural Hospitals
Southwest Memorial Hospital in Cortez, Colorado, received more than 59,000 patient visits last year. That’s enough to treat ...
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Celebrating the Great Outdoors – From the Great Indoors
To celebrate our latest podcast, "Getaway," we've put together a roundup of our favorite movies and documentaries about ...
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In Rural Alaska, A Powerful Documentary Flips the Script for Child Care Funding
Social worker and filmmaker Laura Norton-Cruz remembers vividly finding out that she was pregnant and feeling like she’d just been “thrown to the ...
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Inside the Schools Alaska Ignored
This story was originally published by ProPublica. Two inches of raw sewage. Persistent chemical leaks. Pipes insulated with asbestos. A bat infestation.
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New National Organization Advocates Mobile Healthcare as Key for Rural Areas
According to a new advocacy group, the key to getting healthcare to rural communities may be to bring mobile health clinics to them instead of asking ...