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Friday, August 17, 2007

Kentucky county on edge of Cumberland Plateau rejects idea of allowing ATVs on public roads

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An ordinance to allow all-terrain vehicles on public roads, which got national attention when introduced in Wayne County, Kentucky, last mo...
Wednesday, August 15, 2007

From the faraway Appalachian coalfield, a weekly newspaper's editorial rebuke for Utah mine owner

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As The Mountain Eagle in Whitesburg, Ky., went to press yesterday, the weekly newspaper looked far west to another coalfield, where rescue ...
Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Rural rollout of broadband running out of gas because profits shrink far from cities, expert says

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“Are rural Americans doomed to second-rate broadband services?” asks Robert Mitchell, a national correspondent for Computerworld. The magaz...

Illinois Press Assn. starts small-donor fund for journalism training, First Amendment advocacy

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Most of the charitable programs for journalism training and advocacy are designed to attract donations from foundations and large companies,...
Monday, August 13, 2007

Paper gets back computer police took after chief's reporter wife told him of colleague's recording

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"A judge ordered authorities to return a newspaper's computer, but only after its hard drive was copied for possible search to dete...
Sunday, August 12, 2007

Most community journalism about Congress is favorable, often superficial, experts find

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Most community newspapers' coverage of their U.S. representative is not critical, and is often superficial, Brian Schaffner of American ...

Utah mines are especially vulnerable to ‘bumps’ caused by pulling pillars; Murray mine had one

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As the effort to rescue six miners in Utah goes on, stories published today suggest more strongly than ever that the mining method used at t...

Indians use federal laws and casino revenue to block developments far from reservations

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“Developers are increasingly running up against newly powerful but tradition-minded American Indian leaders” in the West, such as Mike Jacks...
Thursday, August 09, 2007

Wisconsin county rejects limit on confined animal feeding operations, looks at zoning

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The Board of Supervisors in Vernon County, Wisconsin, this week rejected a a six-month ban on confined animal feeding operations with betwee...

Volunteer, online 'paper' in New Hampshire gets Knight-Batten Award for innovation

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An all-volunteer online newspaper in Deerfield, N.H., that "has become the major source of news for three rural communities" won o...
Wednesday, August 08, 2007

Foes of mountaintop-removal coal mining, rebuffed at state and local levels, look to Congress for help

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Opponents of mountaintop-removal coal mining like Sam Gilbert, above , "have found some allies in their fight, but most come from outsi...

At Montana conference, foundations hear pleas and strategies for giving more to rural areas

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Suzanne Perry of the Chronicle of Philanthropy reports from Missoula, Mont.: “Foundations could help alleviate many of the nation’s most pre...

Utah mine where six are trapped used ‘most dangerous’ method, mining roof-supporting pillars

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The Washington Bureau of the Los Angeles Times , long the domain of our friend and founder Rudy Abramson, gets back into his old coal beat t...

Weekly paper's aggressive coverage holds Okla. authorities accountable, helps capture escapee

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John Wylie, publisher of Oklahoma's weekly Oologah Lake Leader , was reading the nearby Vinita Daily Journal on June 5, and knew someth...

Farmland prices rising, especially around ethanol plants in the Midwest

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"Skyrocketing farmland prices, particularly in states like Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska, giddy with the promise of corn-based ethanol, a...
Monday, August 06, 2007

Senate passes bill to improve federal Freedom of Information Act; prospects for final passage good

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The first Freedom of Information Act reform in 11 years passed the Senate without dissent Friday night after being held up for two months by...
Saturday, August 04, 2007

Obama's heading to Nevada tomorrow, but his rural advisory committee is all Iowa

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U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) will bring his rural "listening tour" to the Republican stronghold of Elko, Nev., tomorrow, but hi...

Rural kids score between urban, suburban on tests; new report has lots more data on rural education

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Rural students are doing better on national tests than their counterparts in cities, but not as well in reading and math as those in suburbs...

American Bar Association may recommend closing criminal cases that don't produce convictions

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The American Bar Association ’s House of Delegates will vote Aug. 13 or 14 on whether to recommend that federal, state and local governments...
Friday, August 03, 2007

New West Virginia publisher takes on other papers, local officials over public-notice ads

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Scott Finn of West Virginia Public Radio reports, "There’s a fight going on for the hearts and minds of newspaper readers in Lincoln C...