These small towns in Kansas are offering land and housing at a steal in an attempt to fortify their shrinking tax bases. What does this mean for the future of rural America?
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A community should determine what kind of community it wants to be, not unelected DOT engineers.
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In this follow-up to last week’s piece about Galesburg, IL, we’ll look at what the town needs in order to recover and thrive.
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The effects of winter weather on your town is one way to gauge its resilience.
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Citizens of Galesburg, IL, are trying to save their public indoor pool and create a new activity complex. City council is sympathetic, but there's just one problem: money.
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This week in High Value, Stark shares a secret with Hjerne and Nair that could spell ruin for one of the town’s residents.
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A small town’s planning commission clashes over a controversial zoning request. The first chapter of this fictional series reveals the drama that can result from local decision-making.
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Your small town had a 1 in 5,000 chance to receive a reality TV makeover. What can the other 4,999 learn?
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The housing crisis is hitting small, rural towns—often in even more stark and dire ways than in urban areas.
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This small town in Maine is hoping to breathe life back into its Main Street…but is looking for solutions in all the wrong places.
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I’ve had to reconcile my foundational belief in markets with my experiences working with cities. This has been a painful process.
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Rebecca Undem lives in Oakes, ND, and runs the organization Growing Small Towns.
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A question we often hear concerns highway bypasses around small towns. Are they good? Bad? Let's find out by looking at a case study: Starke, Florida, and U.S. 301.
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We live in a society where the tendency is to scale up more and more, but are we actually on the path to a small-town revival?
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These photos of Staunton, Virginia, serve as a reminder that the benefits of “urbanism” aren’t limited to big cities.
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The housing market has been insane for decades. That it’s less insane in a small town is only one reason you should consider buying there.
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A conversation about small towns, the need to tell complicated rural stories, and what we owe to the places that formed us.
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How one small town in South Carolina destroyed everything that makes downtown downtown.
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The governor of Wyoming says the state may have to abandon some small towns because it doesn’t have the money to maintain their sewers and streets. How did it get to this point? And what should be done?
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Local governments need to be repositioned to advocate up instead of merely administering down. As an alternative to populist fervor or broad disenfranchisement, this is the kind of authentic representation that Rural America needs.
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