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Showing posts with label Georgia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Georgia. Show all posts
Friday, September 26, 2025

Cotton field project helps farmers and students learn how to outsmart bugs while saving money and time

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Pests are identified by AI as they fly through a light sensor inside this trap. (Photo by D. Mcgee  via The Conversation) Researchers worki...
Tuesday, January 09, 2024

The rural journalism business model hasn’t failed, but it needs updating; a nonprofit cooperative option beckons

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By Al Cross Director Emeritus, Institute for Rural Journalism It’s become conventional wisdom that the advertising-based business model of n...
Wednesday, June 04, 2014

Feds say Ga. can't drug-test food stamp recipients

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Some states, including Georgia, have tried to require recipients of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families—commonly called welfare—to subm...
Monday, February 25, 2013

100+ arrests made in Appalachian poaching sting

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Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Is a Farm Bill fight brewing in the House over conservation's link to crop insurance?

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Looks like not everybody is happy with Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss, who last week got an amendment attached to the Senate version of ...
Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Ga. legislature holds first 'Rural Black Family Day'

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The Georgia legislature is inaugurating an effort to increase "black participation in agriculture and other professions in rural areas,...
Friday, December 11, 2009

Rural Ga. schools wonder if they have the money to meet new standards for math, English, science

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New graduation standards may hit rural Georgia schools particularly hard, say rural school officials. School officials in several middle Geo...
Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Whitt, 'redneck journalist' who won Pulitzer, dies

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Private funeral services will be held Friday evening in Marietta, Ga., for retired investigative reporter Richard Whitt, who died of an appa...
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Saturday, February 16, 2008

Parched Georgia wants to tap into Tennessee River by correcting error in states' boundary

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Georgia, withering from drought, wants to correct a 190-year-old mistake and move its border with Tennessee a mile north so it can freely dr...
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Thursday, January 31, 2008

Georgia murder case highlights threadbare, varied systems of funding for public defenders

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In 1963, the Supreme Court ruled in Gideon v. Wainwright held that indigent defendants must be provided free legal counsel. Since then, ma...

As Clinton focuses on getting rural support, some of Edwards's rural lieutenants come out for Obama

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Now that he is out of the presidential race, former U.S. Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina isn't saying whether he favors New York Sen...
Saturday, January 19, 2008

Ga. schools pass up chance to offer Bible classes

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Almost two years after the Georgia legislature allowed public high schools to offer Bible classes, "The idea hasn't caught on,...
Monday, November 26, 2007

Drought continues in Southeast, and rural areas' private wells feel the strain

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As extreme drought conditions persist in the Southeast, predictions of a dry winter present a grim forecast for parts of Alabama, the Caroli...
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Monday, November 12, 2007

Drawn by scenic horse farms, Ga. homebuyers discover the true sights and smells of rural living

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The postcard-like beauty of horse farms in rural Milton, Georgia, has lured many new residents to the area in Fulton County north of Atlanta...
Friday, November 09, 2007

Construction begins on Georgia cellulosic ethanol plant that will use pine waste as feedstock

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Construction has begun in Georgia on the nation's first commercial plant to make cellulosic ethanol from pine-tree waste. On Tuesday in ...
Thursday, October 25, 2007

Georgia newspaper's series highlights prescription drug abuse, a rural scourge

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The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer in Georgia is running an impressive series on the issue of prescription drug abuse, a scourge in many parts o...
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Rural school enrollment up 15 percent last year, with a 55 percent jump in minority students

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Enrollment in rural schools is up 15 percent since last year, and minority enrollment is up 55 percent, says the latest report from the Rur...
Friday, September 28, 2007

Shortage of paramedics, EMTs slows response to rural emergency calls in Georgia

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The shortage of health professionals in rural America often includes emergency medical technicians and paramedics, and that means emergency ...
Saturday, July 21, 2007

Sigma Delta Chi Awards have rural connections, including cartoonist -- and publisher who sees provocative editorial page as circulation booster

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There were several winners with rural connections at last night's Sigma Delta Chi awards banquet at the National Press Club in Washingto...
Thursday, July 19, 2007

Savannah Morning News is latest metro paper to curtail circulation in outlying counties

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Another metropolitan newspaper is reducing the size of its circulation area, continuing a trend that can put more pressure on rural news out...