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New York’s Green Amendment Faces Critical Test in New Lawsuit
Seneca Meadows, the state’s largest landfill, is running out of space and wants to expand. Community members say it violates their rights under the Green Amendment.
This Teachers Union Leader Wants to Turn Rural Schools Into Community Hubs
The American Federation of Teachers’ Rural Caucus advocates turning public schools into social service centers
Wendell Berry: What New York Times Columnist Paul Krugman Gets Wrong About Rural America
‘Those of us who speak for the country (“rural America”) must never give up’
Taking Stock of Rural America’s ‘Hidden’ Homeless
A Housing Assistance Council report shines new light on rural America’s housing crisis
This Montana Rancher Has a Beef with Corporate Meat Monopolies
For Gilles Stockton, antitrust enforcement is the key to revitalizing our food system and fractured politics
Dan Osborn Challenges Nebraska’s Political Establishment with a Blue-Collar Agenda
In his campaign for the U.S. Senate, Osborn, who led a prominent labor strike against Kellogg’s in 2021, plans to bring together a coalition of farmers, union laborers and small business owners
How Illinois Is Bringing Grocery Stores Back to Main Street
A team at Western Illinois University, bolstered by a first-of-its-kind initiative, is helping towns across the state democratize their food economy
Saving the Southeast’s Salt Marshes
Imperilled by rising seas and over-development, tidal wetlands in the region, crucial to it’s ecological, cultural and economic life, are gaining new protections through an array of ambitious local initiatives backed by federal dollars
Igniting Democracy in Georgia, One Rural County at a Time
Eradicating civic deserts ‘step by step’
The Bad River Chippewa Take on an Oil Giant: Review of ‘Bad River: A Story of Defiance’
A new film chronicles how the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa are united in their opposition to Enbridge pipelines
New York’s Anti-Fracking Coalition Unites in Efforts to Block CO2 Gas Drilling Spree
A Texas businessman with a multi-million-dollar plan to use carbon dioxide to extract methane from shale formations and bypass New York’s fracking ban has gone silent. New York’s anti-fracking coalition wants to keep it that way
Organizing State Legislators to Think Rural
‘Rural people need policymakers working at all levels on their behalf’
