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New Rural Stock Index: The Yonder 40

By Douglas Burns 7/24/07

The editor of an Austin, Texas-based online rural issues Web site has enlisted the support of savvy Wall Streeters to develop a rural stock index to measure its performance against other investment indices and economic data.
What Bill Bishop, editor of the Center For Rural Strategies’ Daily Yonder, hopes to learn from the intriguing experiment is [...]

Democrats Winning Rural Presidential Fund-Raising

By Douglas Burns 6/24/07

Taken collectively, the nation’s rural areas, from small southern towns to the vastness of the plains, are leaning toward a Democratic president – if the measure is fund-raising.
 
“Democratic candidates took in 55 percent of the $6 million raised from rural residents in the first quarter of 2007; 45 percent of the total went to Republicans,” [...]

Daily Yonder Interviews Iowa Independent Fellow

By Douglas Burns 6/11/07

CARROLL — The Whitesburg, Kentucky-based national Center for Rural Strategies this afternoon interviewed Iowa Independent fellow Douglas Burns about the impact of the war in Iraq on rural America, which is doing a disproportionate share of the fighting and dying.
Officials at the center had read Burns’ recent Iowa Independent piece “What Barack Obama gets about [...]

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