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The Georgia General Assembly just allocated millions of dollars to establish a new need-based scholarship. But experts warn that it won’t cover the cost of attendance for low-income and rural students. The state’s DREAMS (Dedicating Resources to Educationally Advance More Students) scholarship ends Georgia’s designation as one of two states without state-funded need-based aid for […] The post Georgia’s First Need-Based Aid Comes to Campus this Fall — But Is It Enough? appeared first on The Daily Yonder.

This article was co-published with Canary Media, a newsroom covering clean energy. Jeff Hough did not pull any punches. What his fellow Republican county commissioners were about to do, he said to the packed courthouse, would violate America’s founding ideals. He quoted the Declaration of Independence to make his case. The three-person commission was about […] The post A Rural Idaho County Banned Renewables. It’s Having Second Thoughts appeared first on The Daily Yonder.

This article was originally published by the Daily Yonder on September 11, 2012. Every year, as Congress returns from its August recess, National Farmers Union holds what’s called the “Fall Fly In.” During the Fly In, NFU family farmers from all over the nation come to Washington, DC, to remind Congress that agriculture is more […] The post Letter From Langdon: The 9/11 Fly In appeared first on The Daily Yonder.

A funny thing happened on the way to changing the clocks: Farmers got blamed for Daylight Saving Time (DST). “Not only is that not true, but it is 100% not true. It is as far from true as one could get,” David Prerau, author of Seize the Daylight: The Curious and Contentious Story of Daylight […] The post Commentary: Permanent Daylight Saving Time Is Bad for Rural – and All – Americans appeared first on The Daily Yonder.

Tune in to Yonder Radio to hear conversations about the real-world effects of AI slop, indigenous buffalo harvesting, and the fate of small-town movie theaters. The post Yonder Radio: Buffalo harvesting, small-town movie theaters, and story feasts. appeared first on The Daily Yonder.