Yes! Magazine was first published in 1996 and last published this June.
We scoured Yes! every week because it paid attention to Greta Thunberg before she was GRETA THUNBERG. Because we could read about people making cob houses; coffee farmers drying beans on hemp mats; how mature always benefits the whole; artisan artichoke growers; France, whose National Assembly banned chemical sprays suspected of killing honeybees and hummingbirds; and the city council of Longview, Wash., that had high unemployment where citizens were offered tax breaks and economic revival if they’d approve an oil refinery to be built. (They said No, we don’t have firetrucks big enough to put out your accidents.)
Yes! had to close its doors because federal funding is cut and donors are inclined to keep every piece of paper with a president’s (or Hamilton or Franklin’s) picture on it.
Yes, information is free. Yes, it takes imagination, devotion and tenacity to find information and share it.
We are sad about Yes! but we’re also inclined to keep on keeping on, for us, all of us in Carroll County, Arkansas.