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BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD OF NORTH DAKOTA Rural grants to encourage healthy activity in communities
By Najla Amundson We want to encourage rural health care providers to be champions of healthy activity in their communities. As part of our role as The Official Sponsor of Recess, we have announced t...
Posted on 11/2/12 at 10:36 AM
HEALTHBEAT Need health care, will travel
There's a perception that if you live in a rural community, you have less access to health care. But this assumption may not be entirely true, as a recent study by the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tenne...
Posted on 10/17/12 at 3:42 PM
A MINNESOTAN IN CHINA Old-School China = Bone-Breaking Pressure
In China around 1000 years ago, a unique trend began in the area of fashion, custom, and duty. Parents started to tightly wrap the feet of their young daughters so the feet wouldn't grow large. This b...
Posted on 8/4/12 at 8:29 AM
STAFF BLOG OH LOOK, A SHINY THING! Rural Life: Better or Worse?
I've lived in towns with populations as low as 1,300, but I've also lived in Minneapolis, St. Paul, and St. Petersburg (Russia). I've liked living just about everywhere I've lived, and I've especiall...
Posted on 8/17/11 at 6:00 AM
STAFF BLOG FAITH FORUM Photos from the Gary Lutheran Church anniversary story that didn't make print
Here are some photos from when I was doing the story on Gary Lutheran Church (see post below). These didn't make print so I share them here. Long-time Gary Lutheran member P...
Posted on 7/2/10 at 4:33 AM
Rural rescue
It’s been a tough five years for LaMoure, N.D., resident Connie Willey.
She’s served her community as an emergency medical technician for 20 years, but due to changing times, insufficient funds and not enough hours in the day, the number of emergency volunteers have shrunk in LaMoure, leaving Willey and two others to cover most of the 60 12-hour ambulance shifts each month for the last five years or so. Willey is president of the Community Volunteer EMS Service of LaMoure.
August 01, 2011
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Rural population share hits all time low
WASHINGTON — Rural America now accounts for just 16 percent of the nation’s population, the lowest ever.
The latest 2010 census numbers hint at an emerging America where, by midcentury, city boundaries become indistinct and rural areas grow ever less relevant. Many communities could shrink to virtual ghost towns as they shutter businesses and close down schools, demographers say.
By By Hope Yen, The Associated Press , July 28, 2011
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