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Monday, June 05, 2023

A tale of two towns and dollar stores: One blocked Dollar General, one allowed it on 3-2 vote; local merchants worry

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Leelanau County is the pinkie finger of Michigan's mitt. ( Wikipedia map) What does a dollar store add to a small community, or perhaps...

United Methodist Church is losing 'about half' its Kentucky member churches due to LGBTQ+ inclusion by some

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The Kentucky Conference of the  United Methodist Church  continues to splinter over LGBTQ+ inclusion practices that the denomination's...

Groundwater shortage makes Arizona limit home building; it's an example of climate change reshaping the West

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Voluntarily fallowed fields at the Fort Yuma Indian Reservation, home of the Quechan Tribe, in May. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images via Th...

As rural newspaper owners seek to retire, finding suitable buyers is hard; low income and long hours remain barriers

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The Malheur Enterprise’s office in Vale, Oregon. (Photo courtesy of Malheur Enterprise via Seattle Times) Publishers of small, rural newspap...

California House OKs plan to have tech platforms pay news outlets, with 70% going to journalism; Meta issues threat

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"Despite threats by Meta to remove news from its platforms," the California House passed 55-6  a bill  requiring tech platforms to...
Friday, June 02, 2023

Kentucky will 'explore the possibility' of funding research to make psychedelic drug ibogaine legal for drug treatment

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Hubbard announced his plan as his boss, Attorney General Daniel Cameron, sat behind him. (Photo by Melissa Patrick, KHN) The head of Kentuck...

Worsening drug crisis may take extreme interventions to curb, including more law enforcement, Sam Quiñones writes

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Using law enforcement to push addicts into treatment was dismissed some years ago as ineffective, unsupportive and "not policing's ...

News-media roundup: Unionized Gannett staffers walk out to protest CEO; company gets competition in New Mexico

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Employes at 24 of the 50 unionized newsrooms of Gannett Co. will walk out Monday (and maybe also Tuesday in some cases) to protest how the c...

All creatures quick hits: Salmon in the sky; a terrifyingly huge spider; bird songs are good for you; survive the wild

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The Salmon Thirty Salmon (Simply Flying photo) Was that a salmon in the sky? "Alaska Airlines' 'Salmon Thirty Salmon' Boein...

Medicaid purge begins dropping thousands of enrollees; many are dropped because of paperwork issues

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Chart by Hannah Recht, Kaiser Health News As Medicaid "unwinds" from pandemic levels, millions of Americans have lost health care ...
Thursday, June 01, 2023

Churches in Georgia become telehealth hubs to help rural residents expand their limited access to health care

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Church leaders discuss health and wellness outreach in rural Georgia. (Photo by Chamberlain Smith, UGA) Churches often serve as a rural area...

Debate over prayer in public schools has resurfaced; some are worried protections for the non-religious will be eroded

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(Photo by Camilla Forte, The Hechinger Report) Should adults be allowed to promote prayer in U.S. public schools? The hotly debated question...

International group of scientists says Earth is in danger zone for 7 of 8 ecological measures, almost there on air pollution

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"Earth has pushed past seven out of eight scientifically established safety limits and into “the danger zone,” not just for an overheat...

Finding love in rural places can be hard; 'Farmer Wants A Wife' show helps four of them, and there are other options

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Landon Heaton on his Oklahoma farm (Photo by Xcaret Nuñez, Harvest Radio ) Bacon and eggs, high socks and baseball, or narwhals and unicorns...
Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Appeals court OKs plan that shields owners of Purdue Pharma from future lawsuits; they must give it up, donate

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Purdue Pharma's headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut (Photo by Drew Angerer, Getty Images, via The New York Times) A federal appeals co...

Justice sues Justice, again: Feds try to collect $5 million in mining penalties from West Virginia governor's businesses

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Gov. Jim Justice (Official photo) For more than a decade , Jim Justice, now West Virginia's governor , has been behind in paying fine...

Flash droughts are becoming more common; they can put crops and herds at risk; experts working on predicting them

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A flash drought developed in a few weeks in 2019.  (NASA Earth Observatory image) As Earth warms, flash droughts they are becoming more comm...

E. Ky. was in a housing crisis before last year's record flood; slow recovery shows how disasters hit poor areas hardest

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Shirley Howard's household is one of more than 100 still in temporary housing. (Associated Press photo) More than 10 months after the mo...

Average cost of renting farmland in Iowa is at all-time high

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Getting ready for planting ( Photo by Zach Boyden-Holmes, Des Moines Register) The cost to rent Iowa farmland has continued to increase over...

A rural teen's death was a talking point in national politics for 10 days last fall, but then the facts told a non-political story

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Buck’s n Doe’s Bar, site of the killing. (Photo by Lewis Ableidinger, The New York Times) In the wee hours of a September night in 2022, Sha...

Are police being dangerously exposed to fentanyl? Some think they've been affected, but no cases have been proven

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Illegal drugs outside the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building in Los Angeles. (Photo by Marcio Jose Sanchez, The Associated Press) Police off...