Opinion: Surprise! Some of the fastest, most affordable internet in the country can be found in tiny communities. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b7f3f82a237be390b3f65f8/master/pass/Cables-h_8.02113015.jpg
Tag: SmallTown
Small-Town America Through the Lens of an Immigrant
Since 2015, photographer Niko Kallianiotis has chronicled the beauty and flaws of his adoptive state of Pennsylvania. https://media.wired.com/photos/5b3285ca87588d56121bdcd8/master/pass/NikoKallianiotis_1.jpg
Goodbye, George Bailey: Decline of Rural Lending Crimps Small-Town Business
Banks are closing branches and paring credit in rural America, focusing instead on booming urban markets. That leaves communities without the friendly faces of finance that once sustained them, and worsens an already tough economic environment. WSJ.com: What’s News US
Can Small-Town Oklahoma Be Saved by its Immigrants?
When Soila Medina arrived in rural Texas County, Oklahoma, in the 1990s, the seventh-grader, daughter of two Mexican immigrants, looked around her classroom and saw hardly anybody who looked like her. That is no longer the case. The schools in Guymon, the county seat, are now 70 percent Hispanic and have expanded English as a […]
Brothers in Arms: The Tragedy in Small-Town America
Chris and Mike Goski belonged to a generation of rural boys who enlisted after 9/11. Recruits outside big cities have shouldered the greatest burden for the nation’s defense, dying at higher rates than their urban counterparts. WSJ.com: What’s News US
Could Small-Town Harvards Revive Rural Economies?
In the mid-1970s, the town of Fairfield, Iowa, had a problem. Parsons College, which had been one of the town’s economic anchors for nearly a century, lost its accreditation in 1967 and shut down in 1973. The town faced the future of many rural towns across America: declining population and worsening economic fortunes. But local […]
