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Later this year, Ewing, Kentucky, should have its first local revenue stream in decades. Better drainage, support for the fire department, new Christmas decorations-- there's plenty to spend it on.
Revised EPA standards show 45 rural counties with health-hazardous levels of ozone. And environmental experts say crops and forests are at even greater risk than people.
The number of self-employed people in rural Ohio is way up but their incomes, relative to wage and salaried workersd, are way down. A new study from Ohio State advocates a close, hard look at what kinds of entrepreneurship really benefit rural communities.
Work pays less in rural places than in the cities. The surprise is that the gap is wider for college graduates than for those with high school diplomas.
Who's doing laundry today? In Ewing, KY (pop. 300) you may know. Wally Thomas tells where the town's been and where it, and its washwater, are going.
During the first five years of the new century, no state increased its spending on research and development faster than North Dakota. That wasn't an accident.
Richard Oswald brings a parable of community, leadership, and property.