rural brain drain
By Julia Reischel on Friday, Jul. 29, 2011 - 4:17 pm
Photo by Flickr user tlindenbaum.
Rural areas are going the way of the dodo, if you believe yesterday's Associated Press story about "the decline of small-town America." The article begins with a stark statistic from the 2010 Census:
Rural America now... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Aug. 2, 2010 - 11:17 am
Today's Daily Star takes up a vexing problem: The county fair is getting old. Really old.
Many of the directors of the county fairs in Chenango, Delaware, Otsego and Schoharie counties and the town fair in Afton have served for years. There are between... Read more