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A Brief History of Anatomical Place Names | The Daily Yonder (opens the original)
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Editor’s Note: This post is from our data newsletter, the Rural Index, headed by Sarah Melotte, the Daily Yonder’s data reporter. Subscribe to get a weekly map or graph straight to your inbox. There is a place called Sugar Tit in the county where I grew up. On the west side of Spartanburg County in the South Carolina upcountry is an unincorporated community colloquially (and proudly) referred to as Sugar Tit, although its official government name is Pelham. “This area was settled by the Scots-Ir
The Largest Data Centers Planned in Rural Counties | The Daily Yonder (opens the original)
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Editor’s Note: This post is from our data newsletter, the Rural Index, headed by Sarah Melotte, the Daily Yonder’s data reporter. Subscribe to get a weekly map or graph straight to your inbox. In this edition of the Rural Index, I wanted to explore a hypothesis that my colleague Julia Tilton and I have been throwing around over the last few weeks: Are data center developers targeting vulnerable and marginalized communities, where they know residents are not as likely to have the power to fight b
Panhandle Geography | The Daily Yonder (opens the original)
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Editor’s Note: This post is from our data newsletter, the Rural Index, headed by Sarah Melotte, the Daily Yonder’s data reporter. Subscribe to get a weekly map or graph straight to your inbox. With unique identities and cultural histories, America’s panhandles are generally more rural than the rest of the state they belong to. In this edition of the Rural Index, I’m taking a break from reporting on our surveillance police state to explore what sets our nation’s panhandles apart from the surround
Your local law enforcement is using Flock cameras (opens the original)
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Editor’s Note: This post is from our data newsletter, the Rural Index, headed by Sarah Melotte, the Daily Yonder’s data reporter. Subscribe to get a weekly map or graph straight to your inbox. According to my analysis of data from the Atlas of Surveillance, a crowd-sourced database of police technology, nearly 800 rural law enforcement agencies use Automatic License Plate Readers (ALPRs) as of December 2025. Rural jurisdictions with limited resources and staffing might find automated policing to
Are Rural Law Enforcement Agencies Using Flock Cameras? | The Daily Yonder (opens the original)
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Editor’s Note: This post is from our data newsletter, the Rural Index, headed by Sarah Melotte, the Daily Yonder’s data reporter. Subscribe to get a weekly map or graph straight to your inbox. According to my analysis of data from the Atlas of Surveillance, a crowd-sourced database of police technology, nearly 800 rural law enforcement agencies use Automatic License Plate Readers (ALPRs) as of December 2025. Rural jurisdictions with limited resources and staffing might find automated policing to
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