NORTHLAND'S FAVORITE HITS » rural http://kool1017.com Tue, 21 May 2013 08:06:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Your Tax Dollars Pay To Fly Planes Without Passengers http://kool1017.com/your-tax-dollars-pay-to-fly-planes-without-passengers/ http://kool1017.com/your-tax-dollars-pay-to-fly-planes-without-passengers/#comments Fri, 12 Aug 2011 19:26:31 +0000 Steve Tanko http://kool1017.com/?p=12329 The Essential Air Service Program provides Federal subsidies to operate and maintain airports in rural areas that don't see enough passengers to fiscally keep it open.

The airport at Ely, Nevada is one example:

Federal statistics reviewed...Press show that in 2010, just 227 passengers flew out of Ely while the airline got $1.8 million in subsidies. The travelers paid $70 to $90 for a one-way ticket. The cost to taxpayers for each ticket: $4,107.

]]> http://kool1017.com/your-tax-dollars-pay-to-fly-planes-without-passengers/feed/ 0 (Photo by Chris Harris - WPA Pool/Getty Images) Divorce Is Skyrocketing in Rural America — Why Now? http://kool1017.com/divorce-is-skyrocketing-in-rural-america-%e2%80%94-why-now/ http://kool1017.com/divorce-is-skyrocketing-in-rural-america-%e2%80%94-why-now/#comments Sat, 26 Mar 2011 17:30:37 +0000 Tony Hart http://kool1017.com/?p=3563 According to census data, the divorce rate in rural Americans has increased seven-fold since 1970.

Now, for the first time, rural Americans are just as likely as city dwellers to have a marriage end in a divorce.

Experts attribute this explosion in divorce in America's heartland to changing values; divorce is no longer as stigmatized as it once was.

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