The Rural Beat
Coal reporters Howard Berkes, Ken Ward Jr. and the late Paul J. Nyden win 2019 Tom and Pat Gish Award for courage, tenacity and integrity in rural journalism, Monday, July 22, 2019
The Deadliest Roads Are Rural, November 29, 2009
Rural Medical Camp Tackles Health Care Gaps, July 27, 2009
Rural Layoffs: Losing A Grip On Retirement, June 4, 2009
Postal Deficit Grounds Wilderness Mail, April 6, 2009
Wounded Soldier's Family Feels Forgotten by Army, September 12, 2007
Maine Island Celebrates New Independence, July 4, 2007
Las Vegas Water Battle: 'Crops vs. Craps', June 12, 2007
Celebrating the History of Appalachia, May 7, 2006
A Rural Struggle to Keep the Family Fed, November 21, 2005
Rural Maine Towns Give Up on Self-Government, June 10, 2005
Maine Islands Weigh Secession from Mainland, June 9, 2005
Outsourcing High-Tech Jobs To Rural America, February 14, 2005
Male-Female Wage Gap in Cowboy Country, February 8, 2005
Meth a Growing Menace in Rural America: Production and Use of Highly Addictive Drug Has Exploded, August 12, 2004
On the Beat with Sheriff Scott Busching, July 7, 2004
Iraq War Takes Uneven Toll at Home: Troops from Rural America Dying at Disproportionate Rate, April 3, 2004
Hick-Hop: Hip-Hop Meets the Hollow: Kickin' It in Rural Kentucky with the Rap Group Kuntry Killaz, March 27, 2004
Touchdowns vs. Taxes: Tax Aversion, Budget Crisis Threaten School Sports in Burns, Ore., November 14, 2003
Water in the West: Powell's Vision, August 26, 2003
The New Homestead Act: New Bill Aims to Repopulate Dying Towns Across the Great Plains, July 27, 2003
Medicare Payments to Rural Areas, May 27, 2003
A Town Says Goodbye to its Soldiers: National Guard Unit from Utah Leaves Family, Friends Behind, March 17, 2003
The Rural Vote:
Poll: Romney Has Large Lead In Rural Swing Counties, October 15, 2012
Poll Shows Rural Battlegrounds Backing Romney, September 23, 2012
In Coal County, Obama's Causing Distress, January 21, 2009
Obama Made Inroads Into Rural Republican Base, November 8, 2008
Poll: McCain Lost Key Rural Support In Early October, October 23, 2008
Missouri Bellwether County Undecided This Election, October 17, 2008
Indiana County Is A Presidential Election Oracle, October 13, 2008
McCain Holds Lead With Rural Voters: Is It Enough?, September 22, 2008
Poll: Rural Voters Not Reliably Republican in 2008, May 18, 2008
Poll: Rural Vote No Longer a Lock for Republicans, June 11, 2007
Rural Voters Helped Put Democrats in Charge, November 10, 2006
Poll Shows Rural Voters Shifting to Democrats, October 27, 2006
Poll: Rural Voters Not So Reliably Republican, September 22, 2006
Poll: Bush Gaining Ground with Rural Voters, September 16, 2004
Poll: Bush Rural Support Fades in Key States. Margin Against Democrat Narrows From 2000 Election, June 28, 2004
Counting on the Rural Vote: Some Say America's Small Towns Could Be Key to White House, January 30, 2004