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Big US energy transmission projects in West, including Nevada, inch closer to approval

May 02, 2022

The federal government has finished another environmental review of a proposed transmission line that will carry wind-generated electricity from rural New Mexico to big cities in the West and similar reviews are planned for two more projects that would span parts of Utah and Nevada, the U.S. Interior Department announced Thursday.

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Rural Vaccination Rates Climb Following Spike In Infections

Sep 02, 2021

An analysis by the Center for Rural Strategies found that many rural communities' vaccination rates are still lagging behind the national average, but some are closing the gap – including Montana’s conservative Flathead Valley.

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As Delta Variant Spreads, Conservative Leaders In The Rural West Continue To Sow Distrust

Aug 16, 2021

“Eroding trust takes minutes. Building trust takes years,” says Christine Porter, a public health professor at the University of Wyoming.

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Fifth Street

March 11, 2021

Mar 11, 2021
Goldwell's New Portone Sculpture | An Astronomical Encounter at Lake Mead | The Filmmaker Laureate of Ely
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The Coronavirus Crisis
Gene Bracegirdle is relieved to get his first dose of the vaccine recently in rural Colorado.

COVID-19 Vaccinations Are Off To A Slow Start — But Not In Some Rural Areas

Jan 08, 2021
Some rural areas, where health care is usually harder to get, appear to be leading the nation in delivery of the COVID-19 vaccine. But health leaders are cautioning there are caveats.
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"There's this sense that decisions about the pandemic are being made in cities and kind of imposed on rural spaces," said Kathy Cramer, an expert on the rural-urban divide at the University of Wisconsin.

Biden's Win Shows Rural-Urban Divide Has Grown Since 2016

Nov 18, 2020
In the 2020 election, the rural-urban divide sharpened even further from 2016, with Republicans consolidating power in rural America which could help them hold onto the U.S. Senate.
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During their patrol of the Bear Creek Greenway, Jackson County Sheriff's deputies walk through a years-old encampment that deputies call "the Hobbit House."

'Your Help Doesn't Help Me.' In Oregon, The Unsheltered Tire Of Shuffling Around

Jul 17, 2020
As the coronavirus shut down homeless shelters in Southern Oregon, civic leaders told those in need to relocate to the nearby woods. Now sheriff's deputies are relocating them before fire season.
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Working Together To Alleviate 'News Deserts'

Mar 06, 2020
NPR and Member stations join forces for new regional newsrooms.
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Forum: The Health And Economic Concerns Of Rural Americans

Nov 09, 2018
Join us for a live discussion of major issues facing rural America, based on a recent poll by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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Piñatas hang in the window at the store that Fabiola Escamilla owns in Galax, Va.

Amid A Hispanic Boom, Conflicting Feelings On Immigration

Jul 17, 2018
In southwest Virginia, Galax was once a traditional small-town mountain community. It now has one of the fastest-growing Hispanic populations in the state.
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Renae Jacobsen oversees the spending of John Criss' bequest to Sac City, Iowa.

As Rural Towns Lose Population, They Can Learn To 'Shrink Smart'

Jun 19, 2018
Most remote towns are shrinking, whether they like it or not. But if they take inspiration from industrial Eastern Europe after the Cold War, they can improve even as they get smaller.
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Great Basin Water Tour: Coyote Springs isn't dead

Jun 16, 2017

There are signs of life at the troubled development besides green grass and golf carts.

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Growing the next crop: Lattin Farms

Mar 31, 2016

Rick Lattin is a fifth-generation farmer whose family has been growing crops in the Lahontan Valley since 1909. But his particular operating model is simultaneously old-school and modern. 

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Nevada in sight: photos from the road

Mar 28, 2016

Here's our ongoing slideshow of Christopher Smith's favorite images from our road trip around Nevada. Check back often for new pictures from our adventures on #DCRoadTrip2016.

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Riders In The Sky

Jan 29, 2014

Riders in the Sky shares some songs and insights into the mystique of the cowboy. And they might have a few tips for aspiring yodelers

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Praying For Rain: Ranchers And Farmers Face Another Dry Summer

Mar 27, 2013
Last summer was one of the worst on record for Nevada ranchers. High heat and dry conditions forced them to sell their stock and buy feed, cutting profit margins and convincing some that they'd be better off in some other line of work.
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Rural Life in the Middle-of-Nowhere

Mar 11, 2011

The Strip is bulging with casinos, traffic, loud music, and flashing billboards. But there are parts of rural Nevada where people live far from bright lights - often in the middle-of-nowhere. What is the appeal of that rural life? What does it inspire in people emotionally and creatively? And what parts of the Wild West do we preserve far from the blazing lights of Las Vegas?

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The Water Authority and the Supreme Court

Feb 08, 2010
The Southern Nevada Water Authority recently lost a major decision in the Nevada Supreme Court when the court invalidated all the claims the authority had made on rural water dating back more than two decades. We recently spoke with the attorney who won the case for the rural Nevadans.
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Water Rights

Feb 02, 2010
The Nevada Supreme Court has killed the applications lodged more than 20 years ago by the Southern Nevada Water Authority and the Las Vegas Valley Water District. The claims were to water in rural Nevada but now the authority may have to back and start the whole application process again.
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Inventing Ford Country

Jun 26, 2009
Buzz Bissinger, Contributing Ed, Vanity Fair
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Bill Bishop

Mar 18, 2009
Bill Bishop, Ed, Daily Yonder ... on the changes in rural life in the West.
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Inventing Ford Country

Feb 27, 2009
Buzz Bissinger, Contributing Ed, Vanity Fair
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Cowboy Poetry Part III

Feb 06, 2009

Adam Burke, Independent Producer, NPR's Day to Day

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Cowboy Poetry: Good, Bad or Ugly

Feb 05, 2009

Adam Burke, Independent Producer, NPR's Day to Day

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Cowboy Poetry Part II

Jan 30, 2009
Adam Burke, Independent Producer, NPR's Day to Day
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