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Friday, December 07, 2007

Southwest Va. county starts cleaning out sinkholes

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For eons, human beings have treated sinkholes as natural trash bins, where something no longer needed or wanted could be put out of sight, o...

Post finds trouble in USDA Rural Development loans

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A U.S. Department of Agriculture loan program to create jobs in rural areas "has endured nearly $1.5 billion in losses while backing al...

Farm Bill deal doesn't mean passage will come soon

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Senate leaders agreed Thursday night on how to handle the Farm Bill, "but that won't necessarily translate into a quick Senate vote...

Maine paper, then AP, report on suicide of Iraq vet

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Local news media can tell many stories others cannot. Since the war in Iraq, they have taken on one of the toughest: the suicides of America...

Companies putting computer work into small towns

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A few weeks ago, we wrote about some American companies that are using home-based customer service agents instead of sending those jobs ove...
Thursday, December 06, 2007

In a rural Iowa town with few immigrants, immigration's a big issue; statewide, too

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"Strangers are rare" in Iowa Falls, population 5,000, 97 percent of it white, reports Louise Roug of the Los Angeles Times. But to...
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Study boosts Pa. plan to give all high-schoolers a laptop, but rural schools question long-term cost

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A program to give a laptop computer to every high-school student in Pennsylvania "is making students more engaged in class but favors ...
Wednesday, December 05, 2007

Deal preserves federal payments to rural schools, local governments in national-forest areas

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Rural counties that have relied on national-forest logging to fund schools and other public services would get "a ramped-down, four-yea...
Tuesday, December 04, 2007

Lawmakers struck by trip to mountaintop-removal coal mines in Ky.; one says state limits are coming

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Efforts to limit the mountaintop-removal strip mining of coal in Eastern Kentucky got a boost yesterday as members of the state House budget...

Senate leaders say Farm Bill vote could come soon

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There's still a chance the Farm Bill might reach the Senate floor this year, reports Dow Jones Newswires . Majority Leader Sen. Harry Re...

Deal could reopen Russia's markets to U.S. beef

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Four years ago, the appearance of a case of mad cow disease in the United States prompted Russia to ban U.S. beef. In the time since then, R...

Oregon paper doing big series on invasive species

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For an excellent example of environmental reporting, check out the work being done by The Statesman Journal in Salem, Ore. In September, th...
Monday, December 03, 2007

West Virginia, Kentucky dentists urge states to require dental examinations for school children

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Studies have linked oral hygiene to overall health, yet in many places there are gaps in dental care. In West Virginia, a task force of dent...

In a case of squatters' rights, Colorado couple wins in court but not in local opinion

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Adverse possession is part of the fine print -- in the law, not a deed -- that comes with property ownership. In short, it means that if you...

Shakeouts seem to be starting in biofuels industries

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"Mergers and a bankruptcy last week in the ethanol business reveal an industry that is consolidating," write Bill Bishop and Richa...
Sunday, December 02, 2007

As coal mining increased, safety agency cut staff

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Between 2002 and 2006, the number of coal-mining operations nationwide increased by 9 percent. At the same time, the number of federal insp...

Rural caucus-goers will outnumber urban ones in Iowa, campaigns say; new polls drive new tactics

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As Sen. Barack Obama and former Gov. Mike Huckabee took narrow leads in polls of Iowa caucusgoers, supplanting Sen. Hillary Clinton and form...

Weekly Iowa editor calls for thought on immigrants

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As immigration became the leading issue in the Republican race for president, thanks in part to an undue emphasis by CNN in its recent YouT...

Iowa ag chief seeks $22 million to fight animal odor

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Iowa's new agriculture secretary wants to spend $22 million over the next five years to find ways to control livestock odor. Bill Northe...
Friday, November 30, 2007

N.D. farmers lose lawsuit to raise hemp, but DEA set to allow research in state 8 years after request

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Two North Dakota farmers who sued to end the federal policy that regards hemp as marijuana lost in court yesterday, but in the meantime, the...