In an effort to combat rural depopulation , small communities across the United States are thinking of inventive ways to encourage relocatio...

In a prior post about Louise Erdrich's The Mighty Red , I highlighted some excerpts about small-town life.  In this post, I'm going ...

I've very much enjoyed L ouise Erdrich's latest novel, The Mighty Red (2024), set in the farming exurbs near Fargo, North Dakota, al...

From Nicholas Jacobs article in The Conversation, discussed below Vice Presidential nominee Tim Walz gave his speech to the Democratic Natio...

Hailey Branson-Potts of the Los Angeles Times reports on her recent trip to Tim Walz's two Nebraska home towns : Valentine (population 2...

Last December, Hailey Branson-Potts wrote this LA Times story about electric school busses in far northern California,   The dateline was  ...

Shannon Najmabadi's story in this weekend's Wall Street Journal was headlined, " Courts Come to Order with Judges, Litigants--b...

Read more here .  This event marks the 10th anniversary of South Dakota's Project Rural Practice (now called the Rural Attorney Recruitm...

This story out of Marion, Kansas, population 1,922 , made big national headlines two weeks ago when police raided the local newspaper, the ...

" The real reason the highest-paid doctors are in the Dakotas " is the headline for Andrew Van Dam's recent report in the Wash...

Doug Burgum, governor of North Dakota, declared his candidacy for the Republican nomination for U.S. President last week, leading to a relat...

I can't beat the New York Times headline on this story by Charles Homans and Ken Bensinger, so I just repeat it here.  The subhead is ...

Here's the New York Times report on an ACLU lawsuit aimed at stopping the hand counting of ballots in Nye County, Nevada, population 5...

Linda Qiu reports for the New York Times under the headline, " Farmland Values Hit Record Highs, Pricing Out Farmers ."  An excer...