McDowell County in North Carolina suffered an unemployment rate of 14.8% in 2009 (over 4% higher than the national rate). At a loss with what to do with the increasing number of jobless citizens, and already operating within a strained…
Rachel Blum Spencer
Our hero, Harry, demonstrates an attitude towards death that very few of us actually hold.
Read through this announcement by FPR contributor Stephen Heiner:
Dear Fellow Front Porchers
I wanted to invite you to an event which will be occurring in a couple months’ time in Rockford, Illinois. It’s the Rockford Institute’s 14th Annual Summer…
I recently received a song from Front Porch Republic reader Michael Johnathon. Michael is a Kentucky based folksinger, songwriter and host of the national syndicated broadcast of the WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour. He is also a playwrite and his theatrical…
I grew up reading newspapers that serviced large metropolitan areas–the Denver Post and Tulsa World. Strangely, it was only after moving to a suburb of Washington, D.C. that I discovered local journalism is alive and well. ARL Now is an online newspaper…
What did Grandma really eat?
How New England can change the world?
See an FPR author in a venue near you.
The diversity club ran its course, and has been replaced with “second-wave environmentalism,” a.k.a. our culprit, sustainability.
This spring, Joel Salatin spoke at Patrick Henry College on “Food: The Cornerstone of Christian Credibility.” I’m happy to be able to make an audio recording of this lecture available to the Front Porch. Listen here.…
For several years now, anyone tech-savvy enough to navigate blogspot or xanga has been able to share their thoughts with the internet world through their personal blog (or sometimes, a public “family” blog). Some, like the Pioneer Woman, have made…
The problem is that public schools inherit children who are “overentertained and distracted.”
To him, the created world is merely “resources” and fodder for “job creation.”
Is happiness found in fan-dom?
Michael Lind over at Salon suggests a disparity between populism and the “liberal left.” Given Sarah Plain’s new book, in which she continues to posture as a populist (see Rod Dreher’s discussion on her cultural populism) as well as recent…
