Julianne Couch

A big city journalist follows through on a “crazy” idea of moving to a place where adults are satisfied, children have support, and people look out for each other. Julianne Couch compares Christopher Ingraham’s book If You Lived Here You'd…

From practical advice (can you stop your husband’s snoring with the clandestine use of essential oils?) to child-rearing tips (“Honey, do you really need a hedgehog?”), Kansas writer Valerie Brown-Kuchera exposes her family foibles to…

Print journalist Sheri Melvold put her reporting skills on the air at her town’s locally owned radio station. The result is a professional talk show unlike any other in the world: an informative forum about Maquoketa and Jackson County,…

“Get out of Missouri,” was the professional advice Tina Casagrand received as a young journalist fresh out of college. Instead, she hunkered down in a small city and started a print magazine for people who love the Lower Midwest just as…

The closeness of small towns means that local journalists are likely to know more than the “who, what, when, and where” of their news subjects. For writer Sara Millhouse, the challenge of living with the people she covers is part of the…

In One Size Fits None, a farmer’s daughter paints an informed and convincing portrait of our existing agricultural system and what might be done to make it more sustainable.

The small city of Storm Lake, Iowa, is full of surprises. Its population grows with each Census. Its public-school students speak 23 languages. It still has two newspapers, one of which won a Pulitzer Prize. Art Cullen shows the complexity…

A peripatetic baseball fan finds she's never that far from a game. In cities large and small, it's almost as if there's no escape from baseball -- not that she wants one.

Susan Brinkman became the first certified female entrepreneur bar owner in Kansas when she bought an old JCPenney's building, got a 160-year-old prohibition rule overturned and opened Bourbon Cowboy in downtown Emporia.