Ronald Brownstein wrote yesterday in The Atlantic under the headline, " Trump Is About to Betray His Rural Supporters ."  Of cour...

Here are excerpts from a few recent stories about Walz' rural roots.  These excerpts are from from Matt Flegenheimer's  story in the...

The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported a few days ago on "Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s decision to halt plans for a $3.5 billion Ford Motor Co...

Sheila Foster and Clayton Gillette recently posted this article on ssrn.com .  The abstract follows:  There exists a well-known and signific...

The Sharon LaFraniere story is dateline Mountain Home, Arkansas, and the headline is, "In Undervaccinated Arkansas, Covid Upends Life A...

The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is considering a new proposal that would redefine the population threshold for metrop...

Brooks' column on March 21 was titled " What Rural America Has to Teach Us ," and it's the fourth big rural "piece...

That's part of a headline from today's New York Times , which includes this line (see bold, which reflects my emphasis), which sums ...

Last week, Alaska state representative David Eastman of Wasilla (a suburb of Anchorage, home of Sarah Palin), commented that some women ...

I visited Idaho's Magic Valley in 2011 on a field trip with the Rural Sociological Society's (RSS) Annual Meeting in Boise, so it w...

Diamond Springs (El Dorado Co.), California, exurban Sacramento Nov. 2016 (c) Lisa R. Pruitt After a seven-week hiatus from the blog, I...

See this story on NPR today about the problems that keep poor people from breaking the cycle of poverty.   The headline is "One Famil...

Micropolitan  Josephine County, Oregon , population 82,713 , is experiencing a fiscal crisis that has devastated, among other things, the co...

John Schwartz reports in today's New York Times from Williamsport, Pennsylvania , population 29,534  in the midst of the Marcellus Sha...

I arrived in Queensland, Australia a few days ago, where I have taken up a short visitorship at the University of Southern Queensland in...

Read a story from the San Francisco Chronicle here . An excerpt follows: [Officials in Mendocino County, California] have calculated the s...

Last week, our class we watched the documentary, " Morristown: In the Air and Sun ." The documentary loosely presented neutral sto...

Both NPR and the New York Times did stories this past week on impending cutbacks to commercial airline routes that serve small markets. B...

The Newton County Times reported a few weeks ago on what the 2010 Census tells us about changing demographics in the county. The Feb. 16, ...