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With the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) struggling to stay afloat due to financial issues, the agency recently announced it will likely close thousands of offices nationwide, many of which reside in rural areas. Roughly one in 10, or 3,600 branches could be shut down. Read more about how post office closures affect rural residents >>
From Agri-Business News – KFGO.com
The various definitions of rural make it hard for local officials to determine which programs apply to their community. At the Council on Foundations conference on rural philanthropy, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack noted that USDA has 11 different definitions of rural America. Read Vilsack’s comments and more on rural definitions >>
From Daily Yonder.com
We have another utterly confused accounting of federal payments spent in rural America, this time from the Los Angeles Times in an editorial. Read Daily Yonder’s Monday Roundup in response to the Los Angeles Times editorial on rural airline subsidy cutbacks >>
By Jan Masaoka, Board Café, BlueAvocado.org
Should board members have contact with staff independent of the executive director? For many executive directors, this issue raises blood pressure faster than almost any other. Opinion is sharply divided about whether and how other staff should interact with board members. Read more for guidelines that will help your organization avoid staff resentment and board suspicion >>
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