EAGLE-Net Gets Go-Ahead To Resume Rural Broadband Project
After being on hold for months, a three-year project funded with $100 million in federal stimulus money is back on track.
View ArticleFederal Funds Flow Into Rural Communities
In the small town of Staunton, Ill., the new $9 million water plant is a welcome addition. After all, when the 80-year-old facility it replaces seized up last year, the community’s 5,000 residents were...
View ArticleEAGLE-Net Back To Work On Rural Broadband Project In Early June
EAGLE-Net Alliance, a quasi-governmental agency, will resume work on its statewide broadband infrastructure project in Colorado beginning in June.
View ArticleBroader Competition For USDA's 'Rural' Dollars
As lawmakers debate the Farm Bill in Washington, millions of dollars are at stake for small businesses across the country. Rural development grants go out to everything from home loans to water...
View ArticleSecession Plans Fueled By Urban-Rural Divide
What do you get when you mix rural counties, urban legislators and a whole lot of animosity?
View ArticleDemocrats Face The Two States Of Texas: Urban And Rural
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View ArticleA Civic Lesson For Rural Towns
It’s hard not to use the phrase “quintessential small town” when you describe Pittsfield, Ill.
View ArticleWeld County Holds First Meeting On 51st State
About 50 people gathered in Fort Lupton Thursday to weigh in on whether Weld County should band together with several other Colorado counties and form a 51st state.
View Article'Rural Life' Adds Natural Color To 'The Grey Lady'
Verlyn Klinkenborg's essays about life on his farm in upstate New York have run in The New York Times since 1997. With a long family history of farming, his agricultural roots run deep into the...
View ArticleA Big Week For Secession Talk In Colorado
Off-year elections aren’t known for excitement. But frustrations around everything from gun control legislation to a growing rural-urban divide in Colorado will make for some interesting debate this fall.
View ArticleState Fairs: A Summer Tradition
It’s August. The days are growing shorter, fall is approaching, but summer isn’t done just yet. All over the country folks are flocking to that ultimate summer tradition: the state fair.
View ArticleColorado's Emergency Services Facing An Urban-Rural Divide
When you’ve been involved in a serious traffic accident in Colorado, who comes to render aid, how much training and experience they have, and even how long it takes them to arrive will vary...
View ArticleWeld County Commissioners Stand Firm On 51st State Initiative
As 51st state movements gather more attention nationwide, Weld County Commissioners are aiming to give the Colorado movement a ‘platform and a voice.’
View ArticleAs Ballots Are Mailed, Weld Commissioners Continue Push For 51st State
After Oct. 15, citizens of Weld County will start to see mail-in ballots arrive. Included in the off-year ballot are mayoral, city council and school district races. It will also include ballot...
View ArticleTake This State And Shove It: The New Secession Movement
There's a big race right now to become the 51st state.Forget traditional contenders like Puerto Rico. In several existing states, residents of less populous areas are hoping to create new states of...
View ArticleAs Hollywood Goes Digital, Colo. Hopes To Save Rural Theaters
Theater projectors are going where most of the dazzling special effects in summer blockbusters have gone: All digital. In 2014, Hollywood will no longer release movies on traditional film stock....
View ArticleWhile Colorado Expands Dental Health Under Medicaid, Rural Challenges Still...
Almost half a million Coloradans are expected to gain dental benefits under Medicaid by 2016. That doesn’t mean they’ll be able to see a dentist.
View ArticleFederal PILT Funding Restored For Rural Colorado Counties
A coalition led by Colorado lawmakers in Congress has reinstated critical funding that helps rural counties that contain large amounts of federal land.
View ArticleIs Tyson Foods' Chicken Empire A 'Meat Racket'?
Christopher Leonard's new exposé on the chicken industry, The Meat Racket, doesn't devote much ink to the physical object on our plate, the chicken meat itself.Instead, Leonard focuses on the economic...
View ArticleColorado Telecom Overhaul Moves Forward
Even in 2014 many parts of Colorado are still not connected to the Internet and if they are it’s not at high speeds. A package of bills to reform and update Colorado’s telecommunications industry has...
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