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The Wonderful Company’s Wonderful Schools
Students at two public charter schools in California’s poor Central Valley excel at undersea robots, mariachi, soccer drones, raising crops, and make a jumpstart on college.
Finding the City of Lost Hills
California's agricultural Central Valley—so rich in output, so poor in median income—is the focal point of trends in immigration, in education, in political trends, in…
How Libraries Are Becoming ‘Sustainable’
An ambitious goal of "making choices that are good for the environment, make sense economically, and treat everyone equitably."
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A Student Newspaper Takes on Community Responsibilities
The Ball State Daily News has filled a local journalism gap.
The Rise of the Kingsbury Journal, and the Future of Local Journalism
A local paper with a longer history than its home state suddenly shut its doors, for good, during the pandemic. How an entire community willed a new publication into existence–and avoided…
The New Approach to Local Journalism
Here’s another installment in the ongoing series on how local news operations, especially newspapers, can devise new ways to stay in business. For previous entries—from Mississippi,…
‘Local, Local, Local’: How a Small Newspaper Survives
This is another road report on the state of local journalism, which is more and more important, and more and more imperiled.
It is important because so much of the future of American…
Report for America Revives Possibilities for Local Journalism
A promising movement, in discouraging times.