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Experts warns the demise of Wisconsin’s two-year liberal arts transfer colleges represents the equivalent of “desertification ...

More than 60% of U.S. mushrooms are grown in southeast Pennsylvania. But the Trump administration’s immigration policy and ...

Montana’s 1st Congressional District is split geographically by the Continental Divide. It is now split politically as ...

Jennifer C. Berkshire is the host of the education podcast “Have You Heard” and the co-author (with Jack Schneider) of The Education Wars: A Citizen’s Guide and Defense Manual. She teaches in the ...

There are very real reasons to be concerned about the future of our democracy and undoubtedly real stakes in the coming midterms. But after nearly a decade of organizing in rural and small town ...

Linley Sanders is a polls and surveys analyst for The Associated Press. She develops and writes about AP-NORC polls, works on the AP Voter Poll and covers shifts in public opinion.

Today’s data center proponents argue such projects bring needed jobs and a boost to local economies. Rural America has heard confident pitches like these before. Nearly 40 years ago, concentrated ...

Until recently, if you drove down the main street in Cairo, Illinois, a majority Black community at the southernmost point of the state, you wouldn’t have been able to find a grocery store. Like many ...