Kimball Coe News Today

From rural voters and rural representation in media to religion and country music, here's the list of our top stories for 2023.

Sylvia Ryerson, Judah Schept, and Anya Slepyan discuss the opportunity costs of prison expansion and how hosting prisons shapes communities.

The Republican supermajority in the Tennessee House underestimates the voice of rural residents who want common-sense gun regulations.

For the musical alliance Slavalachia and folk musician Brother Hill, old protest songs retain a special power, from the Appalachian coal fields all the way to the front lines of Ukraine.

(RNS) — Listening, not anger, will help us get to where we need to go.

Six months after its rollout, a child tax credit large enough to pull thousands of Montana children out of poverty is about to expire without the passage of President Biden’s

Roughly 175,000 Hoosier children under the age of 18 are at risk of slipping back into poverty or deeper into poverty if the expanded federal child tax credit ends after December.

If child tax credit payments end, 175K Hoosier kids at risk of slipping back, deeper into poverty

The Daily Yonder Everywhere Radio: What Does It Mean to Be in a Society Together? Political scientist Hahrie Han is thinking about the role of democracy in a changing nation and what a rural “agora” might look like in the 21st century. Share this: Growing up as the daughter of Korean immigrants, Hahrie Han knows firsthand the delicateness of balancing different cultures and creating a community that is inclusive amidst the seemingly growing social divides in our country. “We’...

The Daily Yonder Eliza Blue on Everywhere Radio: The Winding Road to Purpose Musician Eliza Blue became a full time "accidental rancher" after leaving the city for rural South Dakota. As a result, she found new ways of fulfilling her old goals and passions. Share this: When folksinger Eliza Blue moved from Minneapolis to Perkins County, South Dakota, she didn’t mean to stay there long. “It was really kind of like a sabbatical from city life and a sabbatical from touring full-time....