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Newspapers keep small-town communities together, but dwindling populations may mean closing shop
Nov 10, 2017
As small town populations decline, local newspapers disappear.
Passing on a tradition of wild rice harvest in northern Minnesota
by
Dan Kraker
Oct 18, 2017
Native Americans migrated to Minnesota centuries ago “where food grew on the water,” 500 years later, the wild rice harvest tradition is still being passed on.
In Los Angeles, mariachi musicians fight gentrification to keep tradition alive
Sep 15, 2017
In the Boyle Heights neighborhood of LA, mariachis struggle to pay rent near a plaza named for them.
Could work-based learning help rural towns prepare students for a new economy close to home?
Aug 14, 2017
One small fishing town in Maine is trying something new to help the next generation gain valuable work skills: a new charter school focused on the idea of work-based learning — designed to put students into the community and expose them to different kinds of jobs in their state.
Amid urbanization and expense, hunting declines as a hobby
by
Blake Farmer
Aug 1, 2017
Fewer Americans are hunting as a hobby, but those that are still hunting, are spending more money doing it.
Food processing, manufacturing no longer major way of life in Chicago
Jul 17, 2017
Factories give way to tech companies.
For public good, not for profit.
Wood City: Cloquet, Minn., hopes to keep its identity after last matchstick factory closes
Jul 14, 2017
The Diamond Match factory is one of three major wood products plants in Cloquet, Minn. But it’s slated to close later this summer, leaving Cloquet with a hole in both its history and economy.
As fewer farmers work the land, the small town way of life fades
Jul 10, 2017
Average farms are growing and adopting new technologies to make ends meet.