Earlier this week, the great rural blog The Daily Yonder posted a cool map of government data of average compensation in rural counties (includes wages, employer contributions for pension plans, insurance plans, government social insurance and bonuses). Here’s the post and a larger version of the map. The data is from 2008, which might be a [...]

The Central Nebraska Regional Airport in Grand Island held a celebration Thursday night for its 10,000th passenger of the year — the magic number to receive $1 million in federal infrastructure improvement funds. What’s significant for rural Nebraskans is not so much the fact that the airport hit that number (though it’s certainly nice for the [...]