Kenedy County, Texas, is up front about its lack of accommodations. Large signs on its main highway, U.S. Route 77, say there are no services for 60 or 70 miles. There are no restaurants, gas stations or barbershops, no businesses at all, in the county seat Sarita.
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The reverend approached the makeshift pulpit and asked the Lord to help him make some sense of the scene before him: two caskets, side by side, in a small-town cemetery busier now than ever before.
Read moreTowns in West Texas are debating whether to follow the governor’s lead to reopen parts of the economy or keep
Read moreReflecting a crisis in rural hospitals, Blue Ridge Georgia Holdings and 109 (sic) affiliated hospitals have filed for bankruptcy, listing $1 billion to $10 billion in assets and liabilities.
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Calling New York a microcosm of the rest of the country, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said Thursday that people who live in rural communities should not presume themselves safe from the Covid-19 pandemic.
Read moreFor centuries on a small, forested island in the Baltic Sea, women in headscarves and striped red skirts have done most of the work: from farming to lighthouse keeping, leading church services and even dressing up as Santa at Christmas.
Read moreMore than half of U.S. counties had smaller populations in 2019 as compared with 2010, but in Texas, as so often happens, things got bigger, according to census data published Thursday.
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The social distancing rules repeated like a mantra in America’s urban centers, where the coronavirus is spreading exponentially, might seem silly in wide-open places where neighbors live miles apart and working from home means another day branding calves or driving a tractor alone through a field.
Read moreA onetime cow town and borderlands military outpost turned international arts destination in Texas is eerily quiet during what would otherwise be a busy spring break season in tourist towns.
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Texas is withdrawing from a multistate antitrust lawsuit seeking to block a proposed $26.5 billion merger of telecommunication giants T-Mobile and Sprint that critics say would raise prices for consumers, particularly those in rural areas.
Read moreThe gap between personal incomes in rural farming communities and communities with recreation-based economies is widening in rural America, a new federal report released Wednesday says.
Read moreLarge swaths of rural Texas continue to lag far behind the state’s major metropolitan areas when it comes to high-speed internet, at a time when the United Nations considers online access to be a basic human right.
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Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris on Thursday promised to reverse President Donald Trump’s “betrayal toward rural America” by ending corporate tax breaks and investing over $100 billion in small businesses and towns.
Read moreThe owner of famed French rooster Maurice emerged victorious on Thursday from a legal battle with her neighbors over his early-morning crowing, with a court upholding the bird’s right to sing in the day.
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When President Donald Trump levied tariffs on China that scrambled global markets, Iowa farmer Randy Miller was willing to absorb the financial hit. Even as the soybeans in his fields an hour south of Des Moines became less valuable, Miller saw long-term promise in Trump’s efforts to rebalance America’s trade relationship with Beijing.
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Rebuking the White House for giving some oil refiners a pass on the amount of ethanol they must mix into gasoline, U.S. Senator and Democratic hopeful Amy Klobuchar accused the president Thursday of breaking his promises to rural farmers.
Read moreIn another push to win voters outside liberal strongholds, South Bend, Indiana, mayor and Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg rolled out an economic plan Tuesday to reinvigorate rural America by encouraging entrepreneurship, investing in technology and empowering workers.
Read moreWarning that “time is running out to get it right,” South Bend, Indiana, mayor and Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg unveiled a plan Friday to promote affordable, expansive health care for rural Americans and Native American tribes.
Read moreWhen is an unincorporated town more rural than urban? In Wisconsin, the answer may depend on whether one lives in
Read morePresident Donald Trump has pledged to revitalize the nation’s coal industry but employment in that sector is at a record low, according to federal data, and many major coal-burning power plants across Appalachia are using other fuels or closing down entirely.
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