Back in July of this year, we asked our readers to help our friend Becky McCray, by participating in her “Survey of Rural Challenges.” Thank you to all who took part and shared their experiences. Becky recently passed along the results with us … Read more

We LOVE this! Can your community insert its name at the bottom? What are you doing to help your community become an idea friendly town? Small Town Creed by Becky McCray and Deb Brown We have often shared posts from our friends Becky … Read more

We have a favor to ask of our readers.  Becky McCray, a small-town entrepreneur and writer, has been a frequent “contributor” to our Agurban.  This week, we’d like to ask for your help in helping Becky. Survey of Rural Challenges Wouldn’t it be … Read more

This week’s Agurban comes from a post by our good friend, Becky McCray and one of her guest contributors, Paula Jensen. We couldn’t agree more with some of the take-aways from Paula’s post, What’s the Life Expectancy of Our Community? We are sharing … Read more

One of our favorite small-town advocates is Becky McCray. Becky has a passion for helping small rural towns be successful, whether offering tips for main street small businesses or ways to keep or bring back your young people. We love Becky’s recent post … Read more

We have shared posts from our long-time friend Becky McCray in past Agurbans. We love this recent post from Becky in which she shared six themes picked by an Oregon follower on how her state’s small towns could work on entrepreneurship. These themes … Read more

We LOVE this idea shared by our good friend Becky McCray! Does your community have empty downtown buildings? Is this a way you could put them to good use? Small town retail trend: shared spaces BY BECKY MCCRAY Small towns struggle to fill big … Read more

Our good friend Becky McCray, along with Deb Brown, recently posted their Top Small Town and Rural Small Business Trends for 2017. We couldn’t agree more! Top Small Town and Rural Small Business Trends for 2017 Rural business trends are always different from … Read more

We are pleased to share with you a post from our good friend Becky McCray. Becky is a small town business owner in Hopeton, Oklahoma, a community of 30 people. In 2006, Becky started her Small Biz Survival blog to teach small town entrepreneurs … Read more

  We have featured posts by good friend Becky McCray in The Agurban in the past. Another of Becky’s posts caught our eye recently. We would venture to bet that nearly every small town in America has a “roofless building” or empty lot … Read more