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The Yonder Report

Aug 30, 2023

Millions of Americans are navigating a post-pandemic Medicaid purge, rural "news deserts"  turn to nonprofits for local coverage in response to hedge-fund buyouts, and the Cornhusker State is preserving the stories of Nebraskans who trekked to one-room school houses in days gone by.

 


Aug 24, 2023

Small business owners rebuilding after flooding in eastern Kentucky are getting recovery money from local nonprofits and others; severe heat waves have doubled fatalities for outdoor workers in the past 30 years but helpful legislation is slow in coming; and Virginians say "Yes, we can!" to the resurgence...


Aug 16, 2023

Carbon-carrying pipeline projects are meeting Midwest resistance, barriers to substance-abuse treatment could fall once stigma is overcome, youth leaders in North Carolina help boost community engagement, and there's August dog days and then there's "dog’s...


Aug 9, 2023

A rural Tennessee community has restored limited ER, Washington State's Quinault Indian Nation is building better broadband, the blockbuster Oppenheimer has renewed conversations around fallout from nuclear testing, and kids return to "reading, 'riting,...


Aug 2, 2023

Gentrification in small-town West Virginia worries the local creative community, a Kentucky nursing student wants to bring more trauma centers to rural Indiana, and all-terrain electric wheelchairs now available in state parks open new vistas for those...