Tag: Daily Yonder
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Rural voters in battleground states prefer Romney
Mitt Romney is running behind in many of the major polls making headlines in the latter part of September, but one demographic is providing good news for the Romney campaign: rural voters in battleground states.
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FiredUp: Keystone blockage shows the power of united rural voices
Whatever you think of the Keystone XL pipeline, you may want to take note of who stopped it. It was not, as reported in The New Yorker, Professor Bill McKibben and other East Coast activists. Instead, the power behind the brakes originated on ranches in Nebraska. NPR reported the story, and Daily Yonder gave their…
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FiredUp: Have you heard about the ‘Howard miracle’?
If not, it’s time to learn about this “model of community planning” just down the highway: Howard, S.D. A class project to look at how money is spent in the community turned into a revival movement that involved a significant percentage of the county and had measurable results: In the first year, local retail sales…