The return of congressional earmarks, with more transparency, is a boon to the selected local governments and their citizens, Route Fifty reports.
Kentucky communities worry the July flood will make them lose their post offices, the Jackson-Breathitt County Times-Voice reports.
How a solitary monk, known for his soup, united a rural community, from The Washington Post.
"A rural doctor gave her all, then her heart broke," from The New York Times.
The Associated Press has a feature story on the Ojibwe of Minnesota harvesting wild rice, imperiled by climate change.
A former county clerk in northeast Arkansas was sentenced to 57 months in prison for stealing more than $1.5 million in the first six months of 2020. He's 34 years old and was already in state prison serving a 10-year term, The Jonesboro Sun reports.
The University of Kentucky has established a center to research medical use of cannabis, following a law passed after a medical-marijuana law couldn't pass the legislature. Read about it here.
A study called "first of its kind" documents carcinogenic emissions from gas pipelines. Read it here.
A rural Virginia county considers deeding a Confederate statue and its plot to a private group in order to fend off possible attempts to remove it, The Washington Post reports.
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