As rural hospitals close, the ride to care gets longer and the ride starts later. A 2026 Alaska study found a 262-minute median from the call to arrival, and the longest phase was waiting for an aircraft. For investors: ask what pays for the response, and what happens when it cannot be paid.

Congress cut $1.1 billion from public broadcasting in one vote. An average station barely felt it. A station with no other source of revenue -- and no other source of local news, or emergency warning -- is being forced to close.

Alaska was bought for $7.2 million in 1867, about two cents an acre. A 1971 land settlement split the state's land among corporations rather than a trust like Hawaii's -- which is why, unlike Hawaii, real companies from it sit in this site's own graph today.

More than 2.2 million Americans live without running water, concentrated in the Navajo Nation, Texas border colonias, Appalachia, and the Alabama Black Belt. The Texas counties farthest from water are the same counties farthest from a hospital -- because Texas never expanded Medicaid.