Claire Carlson

Portland

Collaborations Correspondent at The Daily Yonder

Writing about rural communities, politics, and the environment for @dailyyonder

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Articles

Eighteen Hours by Ferry

3 days ago | dailyyonder.com | Claire Carlson

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in Keep It Rural, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Like what you see? Join the mailing list for more rural news, thoughts, and analysis in your inbox each week. Up until last week, Alaska existed only in my imagination. I pictured a vast landscape full of glaciers and grizzlies and Chris McCandless in his teal bus outside of Denali, living off the land until it killed him.
Puffin-Watching for the End of the World

2 weeks ago | dailyyonder.com | Claire Carlson

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in Keep It Rural, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Like what you see? Join the mailing list for more rural news, thoughts, and analysis in your inbox each week. I often wonder what it’s like to be an animal living through the extinction of your own species. An estimated 150 species go extinct every day, making it one of the most commonplace, yet tragic, stories in the anthropocene.
Idolizing the "Tradwife" Is Tricky Business

1 month ago | dailyyonder.com | Claire Carlson

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in Keep It Rural, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Like what you see? Join the mailing list for more rural news, thoughts, and analysis in your inbox each week.
Dismantling the Head Start Program Will Hurt Rural Families

1 month ago | dailyyonder.com | Claire Carlson

The Trump administration’s proposal to eliminate the federally funded childcare program Head Start will disproportionately harm low-income rural families who could be left without childcare if the service is defunded.
America Is Not Immune to Fascism

1 month ago | dailyyonder.com | Claire Carlson

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in Keep It Rural, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Like what you see? Join the mailing list for more rural news, thoughts, and analysis in your inbox each week. First he came for the Department of Agriculture, pausing grant payments and loans to small farmers and canceling Forest Service contracts for prescribed burns.
Q&A: Romantacizing Rural Desert Life, with Michael Branch

1 month ago | dailyyonder.com | Claire Carlson

Editor’s Note: This interview first appeared in Path Finders, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. Like what you see here? You can join the mailing list at the bottom of this article and receive more conversations like this in your inbox each week. Living in the desert is no easy feat, much less the rural desert on 49 hilly acres at the end of a 2.3-mile-long dirt road.
"Today’s children are our future. And if we believed in that future, we’d invest in it.”

1 month ago | us9.campaign-archive.com | Hannah McClellan |Liz Bell |Lane Fischer |Claire Carlson

Senate budget includes raises and funds for Propel NC, requires administrative cuts by Hannah Vinueza McClellan Contents Pay and benefits Other workforce investments Enrollment Alignment with high schools Community college reductions Helene aid and funds for individual colleges The North Carolina Senate released its 2025-27 budget proposal on April 14, allocating approximately $73 million over the… Continue reading → Senate budget updates child care subsidy rates, lacks subsidy floor by Liz...
Education leaders urge congress to pass Secure Rural Schools Act, but warn it’s an unsustainable funding solution

1 month ago | ednc.org | Lane Fischer |Claire Carlson

When students in rural Trinity County, California, gaze out their classroom windows, they see the tree-filled landscape of Shasta-Trinity National Forest, which spans more than 2 million acres in the northeast corner of the state. The expansive forest might inspire dreams of outdoor adventure for locals, but for Trinity County and other rural forest communities across the U.S., it also represents a fraught cycle of inadequate public school funding.
Education Leaders Urge Congress to Pass Secure Rural Schools Act, But Warn It’s an Unsustainable Funding Solution

1 month ago | dailyyonder.com | Claire Carlson |Lane Fischer

When students in rural Trinity County, California, gaze out their classroom windows, they see the tree-filled landscape of Shasta-Trinity National Forest, which spans more than 2 million acres in the northeast corner of the state. The expansive forest might inspire dreams of outdoor adventure for locals, but for Trinity County and other rural forest communities across the U.S., it also represents a fraught cycle of inadequate public school funding.
Privatizing the Postal Service Would Hurt Rural Americans

1 month ago | dailyyonder.com | Claire Carlson

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in Keep It Rural, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Like what you see? Join the mailing list for more rural news, thoughts, and analysis in your inbox each week. I have a deep appreciation of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) that stems from my grandmother, the former postmaster of the Picture Rocks post office in rural Pennsylvania.