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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A rural Minnesota town works to manage effects of ICE raids on local community

Substation attacks focus attention on grid's vulnerabilities

For 7 deadly years, feds flubbed fentanyl fight, Post reports, naming DEA, DHS, HHS, CDC, White House drug office

DHS stops large-scale immigration arrests at workplaces

New law aims to help local governments switch to more secure .gov URLs, including tech support and fee waivers

Here's help for writing about DACA 'dreamers'

Obamacare repeal scenario: Name Manchin to Energy, replace him with a Republican senator

Napolitano: Immigration reform will make U.S. safer, while boosting economy

Border security becomes focus of immigration debate

Alabama legislature adds public-notice feature to immigration law, keeping its core in face of U.S. suit

Farmers who use federal H-2A visa program want relief from mass of governmental 'minutiae'

Kansas agriculture interests want feds to OK program to place illegal immigrants in jobs

Pa. homeland security watching anti-drilling groups

Milk security system among projects stemming from rural Ky. congressman's hometown earmarks

Administration, senators, journalism groups agree on shield law to protect confidential sources

Feds withhold list of 'high hazard' coal-ash ponds, say individual communities should be warned

Report on militia groups as potential terrorists triggers national backlash

Weekly newspapers covered Agriprocessors Inc. and its big immigration raid differently than dailies

The high cost of immigration enforcement

Latest big immigration raid hits S.C. chicken plant