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Saturday, September 22, 2007

Editor-publisher in Jena, La., says his community and his newspaper are not racist

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The editor and publisher of The Jena Times wrote this week that he and his son stopped giving interviews to national news media after the B...

More farming in East needed to counter risks of demand for water in West and ethanol belt?

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More U.S. agriculture needs to return to the eastern half of the country to head off two big challenges facing the nation -- increasing dema...

Environmentalists say Iowa not regulating factory hog farms, ask EPA to take over

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Three environmental groups have filed a petition with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency arguing that Iowa officials have failed for ...
Friday, September 21, 2007

Many praise gritty ad campaign for steep decline in meth use in Montana

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Methamphetamine use has fallen 66 percent among high school students and 70 percent among adults in Montana over the past few years, reports...

Wal-Mart responds to its critics with new health-insurance plans for employees

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A new health plan from Wal-Mart offers employees more coverage and cheap prescriptions, but some critics say the plan remains too expensive...

Missouri dedicates its first wind-energy farm

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In northwest Missouri, the Bluegrass Ridge Wind Farm ( in a photo by Richard Oswald for the Daily Yonder ) became a reality thanks to the c...
Thursday, September 20, 2007

Some rural counties lose population from both outmigration and deaths exceeding births

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In the 1990s, the population of many rural counties rose because of in-migration and natural increase (more births than deaths). But in this...

West Virginia miner dies in coal mine where inspections were missed

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U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration inspectors had gone more than five months without doing a complete review of safety at a coal mi...

Kentucky county to join others' lawsuit against makers of OxyContin

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Citing an increase in overdose deaths from OxyContin last year, officials in Pike County, Ky., are planning to join other Kentucky counties ...

Mining industry's answer to new, Democratic climate on Capitol Hill: money for Democrats

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With a new Democratic majority in Congress, the mining industry has been challenged like never before, writes Jim Snyder of The Hill . As De...
Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Among children 12-17, one in three see little or no risk in trying methamphetamine

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Despite years of horror stories about the dangers of using methamphetamine, it remains a major problems in parts of rural America -- and one...
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Proposed coal-plant expansion draws more cheers than jeers in North Carolina

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Duke Energy 's plan to expand one of its North Carolina coal-fired power plants, its first such expansion in decades, has drawn both str...

N.H. agriculture commissioner, in newsy Bulletin, tells us about the leading designer of corn mazes

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When New Hampshire Agriculture Commissioner Steve Taylor retires next month, we will miss his writing for the Weekly Market Bulletin of the ...
Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Obama leads presidential candidates in rural contributions; Romney first among Republicans

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In this year's second quarter, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., received $861,646 in campaign contributions from rural residents, the most col...

New technology may help fill labor needs on farms worried about immigration crackdown

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Farmers in need of stable labor have long looked to technology for help in the fields, but especially now that a crackdown on illegal immigr...

Rural sprawl raising wildfire risk in Sierra Nevada

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As more homes have risen in wild areas of the Sierra Nevada, there are increased risks for wildfire, and taxpayers are paying for it, repor...

Loss of federal money keeps American Indian court and cultural facility unfinished

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After grand plans and a promising start, a South Dakota building designed to be an American Indian cultural facility and judicial center rem...

Anniston Star rolls out the red carpet to welcome a T. Rex skeleton to local museum

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As the Anniston Museum of Natural History in Alabama prepares to unveil its biggest visitor, a Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton, The Anniston St...

Overdose deaths from OxyContin, other drugs on the rise again in rural Virginia

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Fatal drug overdoses killed 264 people in western Virginia in 2006, a 22 percent increase from last year, reports Laurence Hammack of The R...

Crackdown on illegal aliens could disrupt this year's harvest season

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Since the White House vowed to curtail illegal immigration, farmers have been worrying about what could happen when the administration makes...