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Saturday, August 25, 2007

Kentucky passes synfuel incentives for coal industry, amid warning of a reckoning

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The Kentucky General Assembly this week passed new incentives for plants to make synthetic fuel from coal, over objections of Appalachian re...
Friday, August 24, 2007

In face of immigration crackdowns, farmers turn to inmates for labor in Southwest

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For $2 an hour, low-security inmates convicted of nonviolent crimes harvest watermelons in Arizona , where farmers have been using prison la...

Coal operator Murray has a history of conflict with regulators

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Robert E. Murray has become a household name since the accident at his Murray Energy Co. ’s Crandall Canyon Mine in Utah on Aug. 6, and wit...
Thursday, August 23, 2007

New rule aimed at removing legal barriers to mountaintop-removal strip mining for coal

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Mountaintop removal — the practice of using explosives to blast away the tops of mountains to expose coal for strip mining — has been used c...
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Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Coal industry could have prevented mine deaths with investment in devices, weekly's editorial says

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As the rescue effort at the Crandall Canyon Mine of Murray Energy Corp. in Utah remained halted, leaving six miners trapped and probably de...
Tuesday, August 21, 2007

W.Va. county narrowly approves adding table games to slots at racetrack; foe seeks recount

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A dog-racing track near Charleston, W.Va., which already has slot machines, hopes to add casino table games following apparent, narrow appro...

Television chains rushing to create Web sites for high-school sports, invading local media province

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Coverage of high-school sports has long been a staple, and an important audience-builder, for local news media. Now local outlets are gettin...

Bush administration crackdown on illegals raises nationwide concern about labor for harvests

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The Bush administration, under political pressure to show toughness after failure of its immigration bill, says it is cracking down on empl...
Monday, August 20, 2007

As feds focus on fighting terror, Indians and Seattle P-I say fight against drugs on reservations suffers

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"While the FBI turns its attention to preventing another 9/11, drug traffickers are exploiting the vacuum. The result: A drug epidemic ...
Sunday, August 19, 2007

Number of gun dealers down 79% since 1994; laws led many small ones to close in rural areas

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"The number of federally licensed firearms dealers has fallen 79 percent nationwide since 1994, when Congress passed " new gun-con...
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Rural providers recruit local citizens, get outside help to fill gaps in health-care workforces

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"Frontier and rural health care providers looking for innovative ways to solve increasing workforce shortages are sometimes finding tha...

Rural intersections in Wisconsin deadlier than busy ones in urban areas, newspaper study finds

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Intersections in northeastern Wisconsin were deadlier "than more congested urban intersections in recent years," Karen Lincoln Mic...
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...