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Q&A: Romantacizing Rural Desert Life, with Michael Branch

6 days 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.
Uncertainty Around USDA’s Rural Development Funding Continues Amidst Staffing Cuts and Office Closures

1 week ago | dailyyonder.com | Julia Tilton

Reductions in staff and office closures loom at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) as the agency has opened a ‘path’ to release $10.8 billion, which includes $2.5 billion in loan subsidies, between grant awards and obligated congressional funding for three rural energy programs funded by the Inflation Reduction Act.
Q&A: Author Michael Amos Cody's New Book Takes Us to the Streets of Nashville and Beyond | The Daily Yonder

1 week ago | dailyyonder.com | Keith Roysdon

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
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.
Education Leaders Urge Congress to Pass Secure Rural Schools Act, But Warn It’s an Unsustainable Funding Solution

1 week 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.
Review: “Homestand” Makes Compelling Case for Small Town Baseball

1 week ago | dailyyonder.com | John Miller

In American towns, before air conditioning and television turned suburban homes into social coffins, minor league baseball anchored the evenings of summer. For most of the 20th century, the best place to be on a hot July night was the local ballyard. There was a cool breeze there, and at home no baseball to see on TV. The biggest news in town, it was said, was if the bank was robbed, or the local nine won the pennant. The peak of this trend was in the late 1940s.
PBS Docuseries 'The Class' Spotlights Rural College Access

2 weeks ago | dailyyonder.com | Nick Fouriezos

Editor’s Note: A version of this story first appeared in Mile Markers, a twice monthly newsletter from Open Campus about the role of colleges in rural America. You can join the mailing list at the bottom of this article to receive future editions in your inbox. Not many college presidents can claim an executive producer credit — but now Nicole Hurd of Lafayette College can.
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.
Rural Pharmacies Are Transforming to Take on More Healthcare Responsibilities

2 weeks ago | dailyyonder.com | Liz Carey

As rural pharmacies are striving to provide more services to their communities, East Tennessee State University is working to get more pharmacists into rural communities. For the past 20 years, ETSU’s Gatton College of Pharmacy has educated pharmacists in northeastern Tennessee. Recently, the pharmacy program received $2.5 million in funding from the Tennessee General Assembly, the first state assistance for the program since it was founded in 2005.
Privatizing the Postal Service Would Hurt Rural Americans

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 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.