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This blog’s mission is to provide the public service of helping make the issues that rural America is grappling with part of national discourse.

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Dear Congress: Say No to Water Privatization in the Infrastructure Bill

Water costs have soared in recent years as federal funding for water infrastructure has shrunk. Privatization is the last thing we need.

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An Open Letter to Biden from Indigenous Peoples

Trump wrecked the relationship between the U.S. government and Native nations. Here's how the Biden Administration can repair this damage.

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In Less Than One Generation, We’ve Lost More Than 10 Million Acres of the Best U.S. Farmland

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Two Conversations About “Sustainable Capitalism” and “The Art of Work”

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Rural America’s Population is Shrinking for the First Time Ever

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Watch Live Seminars from the 2017 Young Farmers Conference

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Why Didn’t We Listen to this Guy?: Bernie Sanders on the GOP Tax Plan and Global Oligarchy

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The United States of Toxins in Graphic Relief

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Rural Drug Stats Say One Thing, Trump Says Another

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In Rare Public Appearance, Smokey Bear Ignores Climate Change ... Just Waves

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Climate Change Isn’t a Hoax and Coastal Communities Need an Infrastructure Plan

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NAFTA Redux Looks a Lot Like TPP: Family Farm Groups in All 3 Countries Slam Secret Trade Talks

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Youngstown Residents Push to Oust Corporations from Election Campaigns, Cap Contributions at $100

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Jane Kleeb, Nebraska Democratic Party Chair, on How to Overcome the Rural-Urban Divide

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Farming Pathogens: An Evolutionary Biologist on the Links Between Big Ag and Disease

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Winona LaDuke at Union Theological Seminary: Watch it Live

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A New Book Reminds the Next Generation of Farmers that “Farming Has Always Been A Political Act”

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Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection Sues Towns for Trying to Protect Their Environment

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Sonny Perdue Heads to Senate Ag Committee for Confirmation Hearing

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Dakota Access Gets Final Approval, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Calls for March in D.C.

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USDA Deletes Records of Animal Abuse from Website

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#NoDAPL: Standing Rock Sioux Respond to Trump’s Executive Action

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New CDC Study Finds Big Difference Between Rural and Urban Mortality Rates

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The Food Movement Has People and Can Make the World a Better Place…But It Will Need Land

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As Winter Arrives, Gov. Dalrymple Orders a Mandatory, Immediate Evacuation of Water Protectors

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Standing Rock Sioux Vow to Ignore Army Corps Eviction Order

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A Message from Standing Rock to President Obama

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Watch Leonardo DiCaprio’s New Climate Documentary, Before the Flood, Right Here

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UN Food and Agriculture Report Stresses Climate but Ignores Industrial Agriculture

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Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin General Council Votes to Add “Rights of Nature” to Tribal Constitution

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Rural Stories Making Headlines (September 26, 2016)

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Rural Stories Making Headlines (August 21, 2016)

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Over 10,000 Firefighters Are Battling Eight Large Wildfires in California

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Rural Stories Making Headlines (August 13, 2016)

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Rural Stories Making Headlines (August 7, 2016)

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Colorado Community Rights Amendment Builds Largest Campaign to Date, But Falls Short of 2016 Ballot

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Rural Stories Making Headlines (July 23, 2016)

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Rural Stories Making Headlines (July 16, 2016)

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Rural Stories Making Headlines (July 9, 2016)

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Competing with Petroleum by 2010: An Official U.S. Energy Report from 1989

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It’s Not Just Oregon: A Closer Look at the Sagebrush Insurgency

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Amendment Seeking End to Short-lived Ceasefire Puts Wolves Back in Crosshairs

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The USDA Reports: The Great Recession is Alive and Well in Rural America

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An Interview with the 15-Year-Old Who is Suing Obama for Not Stopping Climate Change

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An International Farmers Alliance Links Climate Change to Industrial Agriculture

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