The landscape of recovery in rural America is “a story of small victories and people who won’t give up on their neighbors.”
Posted inHealth
Commentary: VA’s Plan to Cut Ambulance Payments Will Hurt Rural Veterans and Communities
The Veterans Administration wants to pass the cost for ambulance transport on to other agencies and local governments. Funding that gap will hit rural areas hard.
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Remembering Our Earliest Supporters
We’ll match another $10,000 of your donations in honor of Joe and Helen Pickering, faithful readers of the Daily Yonder and among its very first financial supporters.
Posted inAgriculture
Who’s Buying Nebraska? After Shopping Spree, Mormon Church Is Top Land Purchaser
Editor’s note: A version of this article originally appeared in Flatwater Free Press, Nebraska’s first nonprofit, independent newsroom. Early in the summer of 2018, a nonprofit few Nebraskans have heard of bought a 22,613-acre chunk of land in Garden County. The next year, the nonprofit, tied to a P.O. Box in Salt Lake City, picked […]
Posted inEnergy
45 Degrees North: The Flip Side of Gas Stoves
The holidays can be a great time to share family recipes, traditions, and perspectives on life that sometimes puzzle our loved ones – like the rural devotion to gas stoves.
Posted inArts and Culture
Movie Examines American Dream Through the Lens of Diminishing Rural Healthcare
“If Dreams Were Lightning” asks “What is a community if it doesn’t have something as essential as a place to go when you’re sick?”
Posted inHousing
Housing Prices Have Plateaued in Rural Moab Valley, but Only by a Little
This story was originally published by the Moab Times-Independent. For Kaitlin Myers, the developments were at opposite ends of the Moab Valley but signaled the same trend. One was a small subdivision just a mile from the San Juan County border in Spanish Valley. The other, ensconced in downtown Moab, was a block of condominiums […]
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Study: Rural Hospitals in Missouri Offer Services to Overcome Barriers to Care
According to the researchers conducting the study, lack of national healthcare policy forces rural providers to do “a lot of downstream patchwork that occurs to help people get the care they need.”
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A Son’s Eulogy: Rosalynn Carter’s ‘Life of Adventure’ Included Her Return to Hometown
Rosalynn Carter wasn’t pleased about going back to small-town life after the broader horizons provided by Jimmy’s naval career, according to son Chip. But, as it turned out, her adventures were just beginning.
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N.C. Hospital Administrators Talk Innovations to Create Healthier Rural Communities
A panel of hospital executives exchanged ideas on how to serve their patients better by leveraging advantages found in rural communities of North Carolina.
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Opinion: While Some Towns Lose Their Hospitals, Others Are Piling on Luxurious Extras
Editor’s Note: Since 2010, 149 rural hospitals have closed or been converted to facilities that no longer provide in-patient services. In the meantime, some urban hospitals have started offering amenities more akin to seven-star hotels than healthcare facilities, according to Elisabeth Rosenthal, a senior contributing editor for KFF Health News. Next time you have to […]