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This is an excerpt from Broncs and Honkytonks, a forthcoming play in the 2022 season of The Bridge. This dialogue is addressed directly to the audience.  A. Cowboys got rules, just like other folks. B. There are just some things you don’t do. A. That’s right.  For example: B. You […]

By Karen Christensen Karen’s story is the latest in the Free River Press series on ideas for building an Agricultural City.   While Karen’s work is not concerned with rural communities, we in rural America have much to learn from what she and her colleagues accomplished in Aurora, Illinois.   Links […]

By Roger D. Isaacs Roger attended the University of Chicago, the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and graduated from Bard College in 1949 with a major in Language and Literature.  While still at Bard, he joined The Public Relations Board in 1948 where he became Chairman and President from 1975 to […]

By Jim Dale In a small town named Rudd At the south edge of a large flat plain of rich glacial deposit in north central Iowa lays a small town named Rudd. Half way between Mason City and Charles City you know you are approaching as you travel highway 18 […]

Note: Brian DeVore has a degree in agricultural journalism and wildlife biology from Iowa State University. He grew up on a crop and livestock farm in Cass County in southwestern Iowa and, while serving in the Peace Corps, managed a dairy cooperative in Lesotho. He was a contributor to the […]

By John Ikerd Note: John Ikerd is professor emeritus at University of Missouri, Columbia whose teaching, lectures, and writings on sustainable agriculture and sustainable economics have made him a frequent speaker at conferences here and abroad. His idea for Community Economic Utilities would create economic justice, not only in rural […]