The Yonder Report Public News Service and The Yonder Report
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Bringing you the news from rural America. The Yonder Report, hosted by Roz Brown, is a 3-minute weekly newscast highlighting the vibrant, resilient spirit of living and working in Rural America. Despite the news media’s consolidation into big cities, stories coming from thousands of small communities across the country are no less urgent and relevant to our national conversation. The Daily Yonder and Public News Service are teaming up to deliver this short, fast-paced roundup of rural news that features a wide variety of rural voices and keeps listeners informed and engaged on underreported issues affecting vast swaths of American life.
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The Yonder Report - April 25, 2024
The urban-rural death divide is widening for working-age Americans, many home internet connections established for rural students during COVID have been broken and a new federal rule aims to put the "public" back in public lands.
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The Yonder Report - April 18, 2024
Rural Wyoming needs more vocational teachers to sustain its workforce pipeline, Ohio environmental advocates fear harm from a proposal to open 40-thousand forest acres to fracking and rural communities build bike trail systems to promote nature, boost the economy.
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The Yonder Report - April 11, 2024
Housing advocates fear rural low-income folks who live in aging USDA housing could be forced out, small towns are eligible for grants to enhance civic participation and North Carolina's small and Black-owned farms are helped by new wind and solar revenues.
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The Yonder Report - April 4, 2024
Rural populations have bounced back for two years running, more jobs are causing growing pains in Montana, Colorado wants school kids to eat better and boost rural ag communities, and Saint George, South Carolina is "Puttin' on the Grits."
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The Yonder Report - March 28, 2024
Historic wildfires could create housing and health issues for rural Texans, a Kentucky program helps prison parolees start a new life, and descendants of Nicodemus, Kansas celebrate the Black settlers who journeyed across the 1870s plains seeking self-governance.
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The Yonder Report - March 21, 2024
A labeling change could pay off for small farmers and ranchers who raise livestock and poultry, pandemic-related rural job loss bounced back but progress has stalled and rural housing is scarce for younger generations as older homeowners stay put.
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