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.

The Rural Blog

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A lack of attorneys leaves rural Nebraskans without representation; 12 counties have no attorneys

Quick hits: Are media outlets ready for an 'extinction-level event'? A new National Park; the best rural water

Researchers find urban communities have about 150% greater access to legal services than rural residents

Rural sheriff and prosecutor offices in Texas are awarded $125 million to bolster staffing and equipment needs

First Amendment attorney says Murdaugh trial can be a model for how judges balance free press and fair trial issues

Shortage of rural attorneys leaves judges and citizens to wade through proceedings together

Decades of underfunding, neglect leave public defenders buried and the Sixth Amendment dangling in some states

Rural America lacks lawyers, and only a few states are addressing the problem; go 100 miles for a will or a divorce?

Kansas chief justice creates initiative to address the need for more rural lawyers, as other Plains states have done

States try to get lawyers to fill 'legal deserts' in rural areas

Rural areas run short of lawyers, which disadvantages rural residents needing legal help

Texas Tech program pairs law students with poor rural clients who are unable to afford an attorney

Rural areas struggling to fill vacant court reporter positions; employees can earn more in metro areas

Ky. conference to focus on beginning farmers

50 years after right established, not all defendants get lawyer, and they're scanter in rural areas

S.D. considers incentives to make lawyers go rural

Midwest law schools counseling students to 'go rural' in search of jobs, where they're needed most