A new study of one Wisconsin town finds that small-town residents see community -- and their place in it -- in three strikingly different ways.

Nobody was a stronger advocate for the coal industry and coal strip mining than Don Blankenship. Nobody fought the industry harder than Judy Bonds. Last week, Blankenship retired and Bonds died.

In mid-December, the Departments of Justice and Agriculture held a discussion on food prices, grocery consolidation, the return to farms and rural communities, and the "elephant in the room....Walmart."

The White House chose 25 people to serve on its Council for Community Solutions. Most of the members came from Washington, D.C., and New York. Not one lived in rural America — a loss for the Council and for President Obama.