Sarah Melotte

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Election 2024: The Big Pout | The Daily Yonder

1 week ago | dailyyonder.com | Bill Bishop |Robert Cushing |Sarah Melotte

Trump administration policies will have an outsized impact on rural America, where the economy and demographics conspire to put rural communities at risk from potential cuts in both social programs and public investment. But it’s impossible to have a discussion about these issues without a deluge of comments that rural voters “brought it on themselves” by supporting Donald Trump.
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.
Exploring Rural Recreation Economies and Housing Solutions in the Rocky Mountain West

3 weeks ago | ksjd.org | Maeve Conran |Sarah Melotte

Outdoor recreation is estimated to contribute more than $1 trillion to the U.S. economy. In many rural communities, particularly in the Rocky Mountain West, it plays a vital role in economic development. ⁠A new podcast explores how this is playing out in several communities in our region, from Moab, Utah to Montezuma County in southwest Colorado.
New podcast explores outdoor recreation's trillion-dollar impact on rural U.S. communities, from Moa

3 weeks ago | kdnk.org | Maeve Conran |Sarah Melotte

Outdoor recreation is estimated to contribute more than $1 trillion to the U.S. economy. In many rural communities, particularly in the Rocky Mountain West, it plays a vital role in economic development. ⁠A new podcast explores how this is playing out in several communities in our region, from Moab, Utah to Montezuma County in southwest Colorado.
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.
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.
Rural Wildfire Risk Doesn't Stop New Residents

Jan 24, 2025 | dailyyonder.com | Sarah Melotte

Editor’s Note: This post is from our data newsletter, the Rural Index, headed by Sarah Melotte, the Daily Yonder’s data reporter. Subscribe to get a weekly map or graph straight to your inbox. People flee at the onset of a natural disaster. We know this. For those willing and able to leave, there’s the usual scramble. Where are my children’s baby pictures, my social security card? What do I do about my grandmother’s china?
Who Needs Dry January More: Rural or Urban Drinkers?

Jan 10, 2025 | dailyyonder.com | Sarah Melotte

Editor’s Note: This post is from our data newsletter, the Rural Index, headed by Sarah Melotte, the Daily Yonder’s data reporter. Subscribe to get a weekly map or graph straight to your inbox. Dry January kicked off this year with an advisory from the U.S. Surgeon General about the carcinogenic risks of alcohol consumption. UK advocacy organization Alcohol Concern launched the first Dry January in 2014 to encourage people to discuss and reconsider their alcohol habitats.
Do You Think Global Warming Will Harm You Personally?

Dec 30, 2024 | alaskabeacon.com | Sarah Melotte

by Sarah Melotte, Alaska Beacon December 30, 2024 If you had asked me six months ago whether I thought climate change would harm me personally, “Yes,” an answer informed by an intellectual understanding of environmental catastrophe. I would have tried to come up with an abstract example. I’d probably garble some mess about food supply chains or drought or vulnerable infrastructure. Something vague, impersonal.

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