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  • Sheepherders flock to better-paying jobs

    Wyoming lawmakers are trying to pass a law to prevent sheepherders from quitting their jobs without notice in search of better-paying employment

    by Emma Brown, Dec 12, 2005

  • Abandonment

    Small Mexican farming towns such as Francisco Villa in Sonora are emptied of their young men when the lack of good-paying local jobs sends them north of the border

    by Michael Marizco, May 15, 2006

  • Contradiction

    Once in the U.S., immigrants find themselves in a land of contradictions, facing an uncertain welcome, sometimes even from other Latinos

    by Jonathan Thompson, May 15, 2006

  • Big yellow taxi — in Duke City

    Yellow Cab is anthropology professor Robert Leonard’s poetic account of his after-dark journeys as a cab driver in Albuquerque

    by N.P. Thompson, Oct 02, 2006

  • Our Green Mountain

    A writer recalls the adventures he had had in Quincy, Calif., 20 years ago, when he was the youthful editor of a small-town independent paper called the Green Mountain Gazette

    by Jaime O'Neill, Oct 02, 2006

  • Down but not out in Missoula, Montana

    Kathryn Socie works two jobs and still can’t afford to buy a house in Missoula, but she believes that her life in Montana is well worth the sacrifice it takes.

    by Kathryn Socie, Mar 26, 2007

  • Whatever we do about illegal immigration, somebody suffers

    Philip Cafaro takes a thoughtful look at the impacts of illegal immigration on Colorado’s construction trade.

    by Philip Cafaro, Jan 28, 2008

  • Who will work in the West’s future company towns?

    As the cost of housing and fuel skyrockets, Bill Croke wonders who – besides immigrants – will be willing to fry the hamburgers and clean the toilets of towns like Cody, Wyo.

    by Bill Croke, Feb 19, 2008

  • Educating the economy

    Western communities such as Lander, Wyo., are suddenly working hard to lure new colleges to town

    by Rebecca Huntington, Apr 30, 2007

  • Speaking up for rural Oregonians: Judge Laura Pryor

    Judge Laura Pryor of Gilliam County, Ore., has led the charge to create the Eastern Oregon Rural Alliance to help eastern Oregon’s small rural communities

    by Rebecca Clarren, Aug 02, 2004

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