Saturday, November 7, 2009
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By Bill Bishop

Main Street Economics
Rural Stocks and Economy Show Weakness
11/02/2009

Commodity prices are stagnant — and crummy credit markets and bad investments may lead to the sale of rural non-profit hospitals.

BioFuels and Energy | Environment
'Green Economy' or Miles of Eyesore?
10/29/2009

To get green energy from the windy Plains to the cities requires the construction of news transmission lines — and the disruption of land over thousands of miles.

Main Street Economics
Foreclosures in Rural America? Who Knows!!
10/16/2009

Laws are being written (or not) to deal with the housing foreclosure crisis. But nobody really knows how many homes in rural America are affected.

Health
Tracing Rural America's 'Mortality Penalty'
09/30/2009

Beginning in 1989, rural Americans began dying at a higher rate than Americans living in cities. Nobody knows why.

Health
Booze, Guns and the Rise in Rural Suicides
09/22/2009

Hansen bar photoRural and urban suicide rates were about the same in the early 1970s. By the late 1990s, rates of suicide were 54% higher in U.S. rural areas than in U.S. cities.

Main Street Economics
Rural Stocks Outdistance Dow, S&P 500
09/21/2009

Rural stocks are doing well, but rural communities are still worried about the lack of competition in the food and farm business.

Ag and Trade | Food
Who Gets Your Grocery Dollar?
09/18/2009

Whatever happens day to day with food prices, farmers are getting a smaller share of each dollar than they did a generation ago.

Arts and Culture | People to Know
Elmer Kelton Wrote About People, Not Heroes
08/31/2009

Elmer Kelton The San Angelo Standard-TimesElmer Kelton wrote The Time It Never Rained to "give urban people a better understanding of hazards the rancher and the farmer face in trying to feed and clothe them."

Ag and Trade | Food
Fewer Firms, Farms Producing Food
08/24/2009

disappearing dairies and hog farmsFood prices have gone up, but farmers are getting a smaller share of the food dollar. Is the food market getting too concentrated?

Growth and Development | Main Street Economics
Boomers Migrating to Rural America
08/13/2009

Baby Boomers are coming. Over the next decade, many will leave the cities for smaller towns, a migration that will change the nature and economy of many rural counties.

Daily Yonder | Keep It Rural
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