Rural Rental Assistance And Low Interest Incentives

Washington, Cowlitz County, Longview. Down one street on Longview homestead project, several years … [+] after completion. Note fruit trees. Artist Dorothea Lange. (Photo by Heritage Art/Heritag...

Farm Stand And Gourmet Shop In Rural Maine Awarded One Of Six James Beard American Classic Awards

Nezinscot Farm Store, a farm stand and gourmet shop, in rural Turner, Maine was awarded a James … [+] Beard Classic Award. Courtesy of Nezinscot Farm Store Most James Beard Classic Awards are gi...

Prosecutors Find Out SBF Held $50 Million in Tiny Rural Bank

Approximately $50 million was seized from Bankman-Fried’s Farmington State Bank account. The bank was the US’s 26th-smallest out of around 4,800, before Bankman-Fried had invested in it. Alameda Resea...

$50 M Held at a Rural Washington Bank by SBF: Alameda Also Invested $11.5 M

At the time, a small bank with just 3 employees held an account worth $50 M owned by Sam Bankman-Fried. Alameda also invested $11.5 million in the bank.  Prosecutors are trying to take hold of all ass...

A small rural bank that Alameda invested $11.5 million in is throwing up its cryptocurrency and marijuana dreams in order to focus on its roots in the neighborhood

Join Our Telegram channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage As a frontier town, Farmington was formally formed in 1888. The main industry at the time was cattle ranching, although farmers a...

China’s big cities are starting to look past Covid, while rural areas brace for infections

Subway passenger traffic in Shanghai is quickly returning to levels seen before the latest Covid wave, according to Wind data. Pictured here is a subway car in the city on Jan. 4, 2023. Hugo Hu | Gett...

Bitcoin mining project in Kenya helps power rural community

A hydro-powered crypto mining project based in Africa released an update on its efforts to bring energy developments to rural communities via Bitcoin (BTC). On Dec. 9, Gridless Compute tweeted photos ...

Rural Kenya harnesses stranded potential energy to mine BTC using hydropower

A rural village in Kenya has been using off-grid energy generated using hydropower to mine Bitcoin (BTC) and power 500 families nearby. Bitcoin Is Key To An Abundant Clean Energy Future pic.twitter.co...

‘Savings are gonna run out’: Already battered by high inflation, Fed’s rate hike will hit lower-income and rural Americans hard

The Federal Reserve hiked its benchmark rate by 0.75 percentage points on Wednesday in an effort to temper the rising costs of consumer goods and services.  While economists say raising the interest r...

Vaccine Rollout Was Weaker In Greater Black Populations And Rural Areas, Study Finds

Topline Healthcare facilities in U.S. counties with higher Black populations were 32% less likely to offer Covid-19 vaccines than areas with smaller than average Black populations, according to a new ...

How Government Officials Set Up Cameras On Private Property And Get Away With It

An example of the type of trail camera secretly placed on club property by government officials. getty The members of the Punxsutawney Hunting Club in Western Pennsylvania are fed up with local game w...

Rural Electrification 2.0 – The Electric Truck Is Here

Ford F150 Lightning kicking dust on a dirt road. J.Repak Productions Growing up in rural America, my first vehicle–like many of my friends–was a truck. Like many before me, moving to a city meant trad...

Rural, Smaller Hospitals Relied Heavily On Covid Relief To Survive, Study Suggests

Topline More than $170 billion in Covid-19 relief funds the federal government allotted to struggling hospitals during the pandemic helped healthcare facilities stay afloat by offsetting major financi...

Here’s how urban and rural Americans build wealth differently

Doug Langley clears the combine harvester’s head from weed before he starts harvesting, during the wheat harvest in Shelbyville, Kentucky, June 29, 2021. Amira Karaoud | Reuters Many rural Ameri...

Covid Vaccination Disparity Between Urban And Rural America Has Doubled Since April, CDC Says

Topline The disparity in Covid-19 vaccination rates between urban and rural Americans has more than doubled since April, with 75% of residents of urban counties having received at least one dose as of...

SpaceX Booking Over $300 Million/Year

Illustration of SpaceX’s Starlink network of satellites. getty More than a quarter of a million people could be currently getting their internet from space, according to Elon Musk. There are cur...