In Ambulance Deserts: Geographic Disparities in the Provision of Ambulance Services authors Yvonne Jonk, Carly Milkowski, Zachariah Croll, and Karen Pearson (all of the Maine Rural Health Research Center, Muskie School of Public Service, University of Southern Maine) provide a nation-wide analysis of access to ambulance services in the United States.

In Can Infrastructure Help ‘Left Behind’ Places ‘Catch Up?’ Theorizing the Role of Built Infrastructure in Regional Development by Grete Gansauer, Julia H. Haggerty, and Kelli F. Roemer (all of the Earth Sciences Department, Montana State University), Kristin K. Smith (Headwaters Economics, Montana), and Mark N. Haggerty (Center for American Progress, Washington, D.C.) investigate the role of infrastructure in the development of “left behind” regions in the United States and argue that the nature of infrastructure interventions potentially leads to deepening structural “left behind-ness.”

In A Guide to the American Community Survey (ACS) for the Rural Researcher: Unpacking the Conceptual and Technical Aspects of Using Secondary Data for Rural Research, author Kristie LeBeau demonstrates and identifies how authors can use the ACS to conduct rural research.

In The Rural Housing Crisis: Analytical Dimensions and Emblematic Issues, Stefan Kordel (Geography, Friedrich Alexander University, Germany) and Matthias Naumann (Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development, Germany) argue that while much attention has been paid to the housing crisis in urban regions, the crisis of sustainable housing availability in rural settings is both relevant to wider debates in housing studies and crucial for successful political action to address the need for just and inclusive housing.

In “Are All Four-Day School Weeks Created Equal? A National Assessment of Four-Day School Week Policy Adoption and Implementation” authors Paul N. Thompson (School of Public Policy, Oregon State University), Emily J. Tomayko (Center for American Indian and Rural Health Equity, Montana State University), Katherine Gunter, and John M. Schuna, Jr. (both of School of Biological and Population Health Sciences, Oregon State University) compile an overview of the four-day school week in America, and the impact that is has on students, families, and school districts.

In Closure of Labor & Delivery units in rural counties is associated with reduced adequacy of prenatal care, even when prenatal care remains available authors Stephanie M. Radke MD, MPH (Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics), Laurel Smeins MD (Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics), Kelli K. Ryckman PhD (Department of Epidemiology and Pediatrics, University of Iowa), and Thomas S. Gruca PhD (Tippie College of Business, University of Iowa), MBA examine the availability of hospital-based obstetrical care in rural areas and the effect such availability has on prenatal care.

An announcement of South Dakota Law Review’s upcoming Symposium on Rural Lawyers, marking the 10-year anniversary of South Dakota's Project Rural Practice.

In Revenue & Readership: Rescuing and Reviving Rural Journalism, Teri Finneman (School of Journalism and Mass Communications, University of Kansas), Patrick Ferrucci (Department of Journalism, University of Colorado), and Nick Mathews (Department of Journalism and Communication, University of Missouri) seek to understand how both rural newspaper publishers and readers perceive the situation surrounding the business side of journalism.

Summary of Mark Haggarty, Kathryn Bills Walsh, and Kelly Pohl’s evaluation of New Mexico’s Land Grant Public Fund which supports the state's schools, infrastructure, and other services.