American deadline: reporting from four news-starved towns in the Trump era

Introduction

The mystery of Caroline County, Virginia (Bowling Green)

What's vexing Macon, Georgia (Macon)

Red streets versus blue streets in McKeesport, Pennsylvania (McKeesport)

Fighting the wall along the Rio Grande (McAllen)

Are Democrats an endangered species in Caroline County (Bowling Green)

Yes, Dorothy, we are way outside the Beltway (Macon)

Fear and loathing in the time of Coronavirus (McKeesport)

In the Rio Grande Valley, a border closes, and signs of a wall appears as the pandemic spreads (McAllen)

The ghost of a weekly covers the pandemic (Bowling Green)

Standing on sinking sand, living in limbo (Macon)

Transparency in a time of pandemic (McKeesport)

COVID-19 has changed how we report stories on the border (McAllen)

How the pandemic is playing in rural Virginia (Bowling Green)

A good idea at the time (Macon)

In towns like McKeesport, the future was already precarious. then came Coronavirus (McKeesport)

Saving Santa Ana Wildlife Refuge extends beyond political boundaries (McAllen)

At the edge of a pandemic, its direction unknown (Bowling Green)

Dirty politics in the digital age (Macon)

How Facebook has undermined communal conversation in McKeesport (McKeesport)

South Texas was reopening. Now COVID-19 is roaring back (McAllen)

Racism, confederate statues, and the view from Frog Level, Virginia (Bowling Green)

Macon-Bibb County votes while a nation protests (Macon)

'McAllen and South Texas need help now' (McAllen)

When a newspaper dies, what fills the void? (Bowling Green)

To school or not to school- a burning question (Macon)

What will 'normal' mean after COVID-19? (McKeesport)

South Texas is a bad algorithm right now (McAllen)

In rural Virginia, a tale of two congressional districts (Bowling Green)

A local election, school reopenings, and the pandemic (Macon)

Will western Pennsylvania become a string of ghost towns (McKeesport)

Where are the campaign signs and the 'Politiqueras'? (McAllen)

A confederate soldier moves on (Bowling Green)

Macon-Bibb County and the unrelenting shock of COVID-19 (Macon)

Will the sons of steelworkers see Trump's COVID-19 behavior as strong or reckless? (McKeesport)

Counting on next year being much better (McAllen)

Election day approaches

Postscript: January 20, 2021.