Melodie Edwards
Reporter at Wyoming Public Radio
Host and Producer at The Modern West Podcast
The Modern West podcast host/producer, Wyoming Public Radio reporter, co-owner of Night Heron Books & Coffeehouse. Mom to amazing twin teenage girls.
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1 week ago |
891khol.org | Melodie Edwards
The Hot Springs School District recently approved a plan to adopt a four-day school week starting next year, according to the Thermopolis Independent Record. That followed a teacher survey that found 69% approved of the idea. That’s helpful, since one big reason districts are going this route is to help retain and recruit teachers. Four day school weeks are popular with parents, too. These days, over half of Wyoming’s school districts have adopted a four-day week for students.
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1 week ago |
wyomingpublicmedia.org | Melodie Edwards
Trump’s proposed 2026 discretionary budget would completely eliminate three U.S. Department of Agriculture rural housing programs widely used by Wyomingites.
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1 week ago |
wyomingpublicmedia.org | Melodie Edwards
The Hot Springs School District recently approved a plan to adopt a four-day school week starting next year, according to the Thermopolis Independent Record. That followed a teacher survey that found 69% approved of the idea. That’s helpful, since one big reason districts are going this route is to help retain and recruit teachers. Four day school weeks are popular with parents, too. These days, over half of Wyoming’s school districts have adopted a four-day week for students.
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4 weeks ago |
wyomingpublicmedia.org | Melodie Edwards
When you think about the main street in your hometown, or your parents’ hometown – about why it’s now all boarded up or why your classmates all moved away – what are your assumptions? Maybe that it was inevitable? Or that people didn’t try hard enough to save it? A new book called “Reviving Rural America: Towards Policies for Resilience” argues those assumptions are often based on old mythologies of ruralness.
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1 month ago |
wyomingpublicmedia.org | Melodie Edwards
According to a new book, it’s time to update our misconceptions about the depopulation of rural America as something natural or inevitable. In “Reviving Rural America: Toward Policies of Resilience,” Annie Eisenberg takes issue with the idea that small towns are hollowing out because of entrenched market trends. To the contrary, she said, urban wealth is tied directly to rural poverty because natural resources are funneled out.
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Last but not least...the final installment of our series The Burn Scar. Find out how one family chooses to face the realities of the climate crisis that ravaged their lives. You can even binge all five now!
Ariel makes the trip out to see the new construction of her family home. But it's nothing like the one that burned down in the Marshall Fire. Her feeling of solastalgia is long gone. It's the final episode of #TheBurnScar. Listen now: https://t.co/4QxLNoYJvR https://t.co/1Z3sjkboLu
A little extra Christmas cheer for your travels.
Listen to a conversation with The Burn Scar's producer Ariel Lavery and The Modern West host Melodie Edwards. "I just needed to record this," Ariel says. "I just needed to somehow remember the feelings of visiting the site, being there." Check it out now: https://t.co/HbsPXeIY12 https://t.co/cSqIxe6xJk
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