Shows
One Country Project's Hot Dish100 Days of ChaosJerry Hagstrom, Sarah Melotte, and Bob Leonard join host Joel Heitkamp and guest host J.D. Scholten to discuss the impacts to rural America of Trump’s first 100 days in office. You will learn about disaster relief, rural healthcare, tariffs, manufacturing, immigration, and the ongoing Farm Bill debates in Congress. Each guest offers firsthand perspectives from their communities, highlighting the struggles and hopes of rural people.Joel and J.D. weave together stories of hardship and hope while connecting local issues to national policy. You will hear engaging, actionable conversations on how rural communities are organizing, what ke...2025-05-1440 min
Rural RemixGETAWAY Ep 4- Climate Change in Rural Recreation EconomiesLow snowpack, drought, flooding, wildfires, warmer winters. Climate change is causing temperature shifts and natural disasters that affect outdoor recreation and the small town economies that depend on recreation. In this episode, we’re headed to New Hampshire ski towns with Daily Yonder reporter Julia Tilton and learning about how winter recreation economies in New England are changing because of warmer winters and less snow. We also learn why rural communities are more vulnerable to climate change with Daily Yonder data reporter Sarah Melotte.2025-03-2641 min
Rural RemixGETAWAY Ep 3- Inside the Newest National Park CommunityNational parks capture the imagination of many travelers and road trippers seeking the Great Outdoors. But what do national parks do for the communities that serve as their gateways? We take a trip to New River Gorge National Park, the newest national park in the national park system, with Daily Yonder reporter Sarah Melotte, to learn about what Fayetteville, West Virginia is dealing with around the park designation.2025-03-1932 min
Rural RemixBackroad Ballots: Election 2024 by the NumbersThe Associated Press called the presidential election in favor of former president Donald Trump at 5:34 am on November 6th, the morning after Election Day. But even before that, political pundits and TV reporters had plenty to say about rural voters and their role in re-electing Trump.
Now that the numbers are in, host Olivia Weeks examines these assertions in the latest episode of Backroad Ballots, and takes a closer look at what happened on November 5th.
In this bonus episode, Weeks talks with Tim Marema, the editor-in-chief of the Daily Yonder, and Sarah Melotte, the Da...2024-11-2029 min
Rural RemixBackroad Ballots-Ep. 5: The Country Vote with the Daily YonderIn the newest episode of the Backroad Ballots podcast, we asked our staff what they are paying close attention to between now and the election. Host Olivia Weeks interviewed Daily Yonder publisher Dee Davis, and Daily Yonder reporters Claire Carlson and Sarah Melotte about election denial, how Democratic policy affects rural America, campaign communication, whether rural voters are truly over represented in the Electoral College and Senate, how Hurricane Helene could disrupt voting infrastructure in North Carolina, and more.
2024-10-2334 min
Rural RemixKeep it Rural-Ep 19: Hurricane Helene Hit My Colleague's Rural TownWe bring you a special Keep it Rural this week. Claire speaks with her colleague, Daily Yonder reporter Sarah Melotte about the devastating hurricane Helene.
Sarah is currently unable to get to her home in Bakersville, North Carolina. She lives in the western part of the state where roads in and out are completely flooded. Claire talked with her about what it’s been like to see her community reeling from a hurricane, and what it all means for rural Appalachia.
If you have reporting ideas about Hurricane Helene or want to share your experiences, email Sarah Mel...2024-10-0216 min
Rural RemixMore at stake: When extremist political movements infiltrate rural communitiesDaily Yonder reporters Sarah Melotte and Claire Carlson talk about what's at stake in rural communities when extremist political movements infiltrate local politics. Melotte and Carlson talk about their own reporting and how they came to the same notion: that when extremist political movements — banning electronic voting systems or defunding libraries for example — enter a rural community, there's often more at stake in that rural place than there would be in a suburb or a city.
2023-10-0529 min