Ilana Newman

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Writer at The Daily Yonder

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Articles

Not Just a Blue Dot in a Sea of Red: April 5th Protests Across Rural America

2 weeks ago | dailyyonder.com | Ilana Newman |Sarah Melotte

On April 5th, 2025, people took to the streets across the country to protest the Trump administration’s broad actions aimed at reducing, defunding, and – in specific cases – closing entirely various federal agencies. While there were large protests in cities like New York, Washington D.C., Chicago, and more, rural communities also showed up, sometimes with significant percentages of the local population.
Research Project Creates a State-Wide Map of Local News for Montana

3 weeks ago | matr.net | Ilana Newman

A better understanding of the state’s news landscape helps focus efforts on supporting some of the last remaining outlets bringing local news to rural communities.
Research Project Creates a State-Wide Map of Local News for Montana

3 weeks ago | dailyyonder.com | Ilana Newman

A new study from the LOR Foundation, an organization focused on rural community development, maps local news outlets in Montana to provide a look at demographics and gaps in coverage. Efforts to map local news have become popular in states like Colorado, Nebraska, Minnesota, and beyond. Mapping local news provides valuable information about where the coverage is lacking and helps funders identify places most in need of support.
Cuts to Medicaid could threaten rural hospitals

1 month ago | hampshirereview.com | Sarah Melotte |Ilana Newman

Southwest Memorial Hospital in Cortez, Colorado, received more than 59,000 patient visits last year. That’s enough to treat everyone in Cortez and surrounding Montezuma County twice. Staff call the small hospital a bedrock of both medical care and the local economy. But warnings that the federal government might cut Medicaid funding have community members worried about the facility’s future. They are not alone.
GOP cuts to Medicaid could threaten rural hospitals

1 month ago | the-journal.com | Sarah Melotte |Ilana Newman |J. Applewhite

Monday, Mar 17, 2025 1:44 PM Updated Monday, Mar. 17, 2025 1:44 PM From left, Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., listen as Democrats hold a hearing on Republican threats to Medicaid, at the Capitol on March 6. (J. Scott Applewhite/The Associated Press) J.
Experts warn sell-off of public lands could be the goal behind dismantling of federal agencies

1 month ago | the-journal.com | Ilana Newman |Ben Curtis

Monday, Mar 17, 2025 1:07 PM Updated Monday, Mar. 17, 2025 1:08 PM President Donald Trump holds up a signed proclamation declaring Feb. 9 Gulf of America Day, as Interior Secretary Doug Burgum watches aboard Air Force One as Trump travels from West Palm Beach, Florida, to New Orleans on Feb. 9.
GOP Cuts to Medicaid Could Threaten Rural Hospitals

1 month ago | dailyyonder.com | Sarah Melotte |Ilana Newman

Southwest Memorial Hospital in Cortez, Colorado, received more than 59,000 patient visits last year. That’s enough to treat everyone in Cortez and surrounding Montezuma County twice. Staff call the small hospital a bedrock of both medical care and the local economy. But warnings that the Republican-controlled federal government might cut Medicaid funding have community members worried about the facility’s future. They are not alone.
Q&A: Adam Frisch on how Democrats can connect with rural voters

1 month ago | ksjd.org | Ilana Newman

Adam Frisch ran for Congress in 2022 and 2024 for Colorado’s third congressional district, a red leaning district containing all of the Western Slope, Southwest, and most of Southern Colorado. It’s a mountainous and very rural district — and it happens to be the district that I call home. In 2022, Frisch lost by 546 votes to Lauren Boebert in the closest House race in the country during that election.
Experts warn selling-off of public lands could be the goal behind dismantling of federal agencies

1 month ago | ksjd.org | Ilana Newman

Policy experts see the defunding of land management agencies like the Forest Service as a potential step towards selling off federal public land through legislative action or a way to fund Trump’s idea for a sovereign wealth fund.
Q&A: Adam Frisch on how Democrats can connect with rural voters

1 month ago | aspenpublicradio.org | Ilana Newman

Adam Frisch ran for Congress in 2022 and 2024 for Colorado’s third congressional district, a red leaning district containing all of the Western Slope, Southwest, and most of Southern Colorado. It’s a mountainous and very rural district — and it happens to be the district that I call home. In 2022, Frisch lost by 546 votes to Lauren Boebert in the closest House race in the country during that election.