Across the Country, Amish Populations Are on the Rise
2024年4月10日 · Since 2000, settlements have popped up in six new states: Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico, South Dakota, Vermont, and Wyoming. In addition to these new states, Minnesota’s Amish population has increased by 230% in the last 20 years. In New York, it has more than quadrupled since 2000, growing from 4,505 to an estimated 21,230 people.
Analysis: Some Rural Counties Are Recovering from the Effects of …
2024年9月5日 · A booming pandemic recovery has buoyed rural counties that historically lagged behind national economic and population growth, but though these gains occurred under a Democratic administration, they are unlikely to swing red states to blue in November, a recent analysis from the Economic Innovation Group (EIG) found.. The economic analysis looked at …
Woodrow Derenberger and the Legend of Indrid Cold - The Daily …
2021年12月3日 · An unsettling encounter on a road in rural West Virginia was a beginning of a rural legend and a personal tragedy for the man involved. by Liz Carey December 3, 2021. Things always seem mysterious on chilly fall nights in the country. For Woodrow Derenberger, his mysterious encounter with an almost human grinning man on the backroads of West ...
Rural Remix | A Podcast from the Daily Yonder
Running Away to Yourself: Growing Up Rural and Queer. This episode of Rural Remix centers on the story of Jeans Corduroy and his journey as a transmasculine man in East Tennessee. Daily Yonder reporter Lane Wendell Fischer speaks with Jeans to explore growing up rural and queer, and identity’s impact on family, religion, and community.
Brushy Mountain: A Prison for a Century, Now East Tennessee …
2022年11月7日 · The first thing you notice about Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary is the bone-chilling cold of the place. The proprietors of the century-old prison, in recent years a tourist attraction in a beautiful valley in East Tennessee, warn visitors taking the tour they should expect temperatures inside the prison buildings to be 10 degrees colder than outside.
East Kentucky Flood - The Daily Yonder
2023年2月8日 · On July 27, 2022, a flood swept through 14 counties in East Kentucky, killing 45 people and displacing thousands more. A year later the affected communities remain on a long road to recovery. The area hit by the flood is one of the most rural regions in the country, and it’s also home to the main offices of our publisher and parent ...
Rural Podcasts - The Daily Yonder
The Yonder Report is a short, fast-paced roundup of rural news, featuring a wide variety of rural voices. New episodes of the podcast release every Wednesday. The show can also be heard on radio stations across rural America. The Yonder Report is a joint production of the Daily Yonder and Public News Service. Learn more and listen now.
Maine's Ambitious Plan to Run Fiber-Optic Cable to Rural Towns
2023年1月10日 · According to the Maine Connectivity Authority, the $5.5 million is just one piece of almost $250 million in federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding Maine will most likely receive. Maine’s 2020 Broadband Plan estimated the total cost to build out 17,502 miles currently unserved by fiber-optic or coax cable would be at least $600 million.
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Q&A: 23-Year-Old Rural Organizer Anderson Clayton on Making …
2021年7月23日 · I first wrote about Anderson Clayton in March, after she worked with RuralOrganizing.org to survey 70 rural progressive organizers in 31 states on their takeaways from the 2020 election. One of the key lessons of that report was this: if Democrats want to stage a comeback in rural places, they can’t just show up around election time.