The Rural Blog

A digest of events, trends, issues, ideas and journalism from and about rural America, by the Institute for Rural Journalism, based at the University of Kentucky. Links may expire, require subscription or go behind pay walls. Please send news and knowledge you think would be useful to benjy.hamm@uky.edu.

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Residents in Franklin County, Arkansas, rebel against Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders' prison plans for their community

USDA closes 125 of 131 Farm Service Agency offices as planned

Arkansas works to attract home-grown teachers

Rural entrepreneur Don Tyson dies at 80

Arkansas' Lincoln, strong subsidy backer, replaces Iowa's Harkin as chair of Senate Ag Committee

Bill Clinton tells foundations their philanthropy in rural America is 'woefully inadequate'

Memphis-area initiative aims to develop crops as feedstocks for industrial products

Globalization, housing bust, changing tastes make historic bad news for hardwood mills, landowners

Virginia makes a felony of cockfighting, so West Virginia could see more of the illegal fights

Rural Democrats feel pain of 'pay as you go' as another Farm Bill deadline looms this month

Arkansas town's scholarship program sends 81 percent of high school graduates to college

Citing climate change and costs, feds suspend loans for rural electric cooperatives' coal-fired plants

Why did Obama lose Calif.? Look to its heartland

L.A. Times examines Huckabee deal to write book on school shootings, refusal to donate any of fee

Ark. town hopes rare bird, prosperity reappear

Looking in the mirror at its teeth, W.Va. putting more limits on sugary drinks, snacks in schools

Do Huckabee's GOP critics think he's too rural?

Huckabee's legacy as Arkansas governor included closing scores of small, rural school districts

Arkansas trooper who arrested journalist covering fire is taken off law-enforcement duty

State police investigate arrest of Arkansas reporter