Dee Davis

Dee Davis is president of the Center for Rural Strategies and publisher of The Daily Yonder, a nonprofit newsroom that provides news, commentary and analysis about and for rural America. It is the news platform for the Center for Rural Strategies, which has offices in Whitesburg, Kentucky, and Knoxville, Tennessee. Davis is on twitter @iamflyrock.

Commentary: Breathitt County, JD, and Me

You hear a lot of stories about Kentucky’s “Bloody Breathitt.”

By Dee Davis

Commentary: Rural grocers stock small communities with quality of life

To keep America’s small towns strong and sustainable, the most important step is to build them to be the kind of places where we want to live.

By Dee Davis

Q&A: Author Gurney Norman in conversation with Daily Yonder publisher, Dee Davis

Award-winning author and former Kentucky Poet Laureate Gurney Norman recounts a life rich with stories—from Hazard, Kentucky to Palo Alto, California and back—while "shooting the breeze" with an old friend.

By Dee Davis

An old Kentucky dispatch: Christmas at Palmer’s Toys

Kids have their own way of judging what's real, and it's not necessarily based on the cost of the Santa suit.

By Dee Davis

Scourges, miracle drugs and a ‘vaccine for society’

For people who did not live through the polio era, it was a time of explicit fear. Everyone knew FDR had been a victim, and everyone knew victims.

By Dee Davis