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15/11/2024

The Games showed how central the rural roots are to the national identity of Kazakhstan and its geographic and cultural neighbors.

Editor’s Note: This is a first installment of a series describing the 5th World Nomad Games that took place in Astana, Kazakhstan, earlier this year. The

15/11/2024

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. Over the past few months, as tensions have risen throughout the Middle East in response to Israel’s…...

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

14/11/2024

Out-of-towners aren’t unwelcome, but the Taos Mountain Balloon Rally tends to have more local faces in the crowd than most.

Cory Johnson woke up knowing it was a special day. So she wasn’t too surprised when a dozen strangers in a hot air balloon floated down to land on the

14/11/2024

As Will and Harper get closer to the middle of the country, the journey begins to feel more perilous. But this is also where the film finds some of its most profound moments, full of fragile and awkward interactions to be sure but also big-hearted ones.

The Netflix doc 'Will and Harper' sees Will Ferrell journey into the heart of America for a touching story about friendship and acceptance.

14/11/2024

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13/11/2024

The data speaks for itself: Trump won because Democratic turnout in cities crumbled.

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12/11/2024

New research shows a more than 200% growth rate for businesses in rural areas with high broadband utilization rates.

One of the biggest rural gaming events in the country, the GigaZone Gaming Championship and TechXpo, is supporting young people to explore technology and

12/11/2024

Conservative groups are working to undermine support for Montana’s Medicaid expansion ahead of a political fight over whether to keep the program.

This story was originally published by KFF Health News. Conservative groups are working to undermine support for Montana’s Medicaid expansion in hopes the

11/11/2024

With an unprecedented amount of past data collected on everything from precipitation to temperature and other weather conditions, scientists hope to build predictive models that will help save lives ahead of these catastrophic events.

In the wake of Hurricane Helene flooding areas of eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina, a new research study hopes to not only determine what

11/11/2024

Criticism of prescription drug middlemen has intensified recently in the wake of a federal agency’s actions and legislative reform attempts. Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, though, vetoed a related bill that would have helped independent pharmacies.

This story was originally published by KFF Health News. While customers at Adams Family Pharmacy picked up their prescriptions on a hot summer day, some

08/11/2024

A Daily Yonder analysis of preliminary returns shows that the drop in turnout for Kamala Harris was worst in the nation’s largest cities and their suburbs, both in raw votes and on a percentage basis.

Donald Trump won the popular vote and the presidency by getting nearly as many votes this year as he did in 2020, while Democratic turnout – especially in

08/11/2024

Center for Rural Strategies Founder and Daily Yonder publisher Dee Davis appeared this week on The Hot Dish podcast episode “Connecting Rural and Urban: Technology, Stories, and Sensible Gun Control.” Dee talks with host Joel Heitkamp about the foundational importance of human connections and shared experiences to bridge the gaps between rural and urban areas. The Hot Dish is a podcast of The One Country Project.

Dee’s interview begins at minute 16:35. Listen at: https://lnk.to/onecountryfb

08/11/2024

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08/11/2024

Today’s farmers find themselves at the center of a great collision between humanity’s two supreme imperatives: Nourish us all, heal our planet.

Farmers in many parts of the world, particularly smallholder, Indigenous, and family farmers, are increasingly seeing their agriculture practices turn

08/11/2024

Eliza Blue reflects on natural disasters both big and small, ones enveloping entire communities and those quiet and personal.

We’ve spent the better part of the last few weeks under ‘red flag’ warnings. High winds, high temperatures, grass and ground as dry as old bones are a

07/11/2024

Trump picked up most of his net gain in votes from Wisconsin’s substantial rural electorate. But he improved his margins in cities, as well.

Wisconsin’s sizable rural electorate played a decisive role in flipping Wisconsin into the win column for Donald Trump this week. Trump won Wisconsin’s

07/11/2024

The Sentinel in Marfa, Texas, serves up regional fare and beverages with a side of journalism, modeling an innovative funding model for local news.

The most reliable place to get a coffee in Marfa, Texas, is The Sentinel. Housed in a renovated historic adobe building, with exposed brick walls and

07/11/2024

There are moments when you don’t know what to say. When despair lurks, there’s an impulse: to run away, to hide, to close yourself off to the world.

In truth, there’s only one thing we can do in these moments, when the words escape us: keep showing up.

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