In North Carolina, every county shifted more left in this year’s U.S. House and Senate races compared to 2024, according to a Daily Yonder analysis of preliminary voting data.  Democrat Roy Cooper, who served as the Governor of North Carolina from 2017 to 2025, won 59% of the vote in the Senate race against Republican The post How Rural Voters Contributed to North Carolina’s Blue Wave appeared first on The Daily Yonder.

Editor’s Note: This interview first appeared in Path Finders, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. Like what you see here? Join the mailing list and receive more conversations like this in your inbox. I first read Betsy Gaines Quammen’s second The post Q&A: Author Betsy Gaines Quammen appeared first on The Daily Yonder.

This story was originally published by KFF Health News. Federal leaders overseeing a $50 billion rural health fund missed a critical deadline to announce how much they’ll give states next year, alerting state leaders to the delay with a mass email. A 12-sentence message from Alina Czekai, director of the federal Office of Rural Health The post Trump Administration Delays Awards Slated To Improve Rural America’s Health appeared first on The Daily Yonder.