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Friday, December 14, 2007

Senate passes its version of the Farm Bill, 79-14

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At 3:30 p.m., the U.S. Senate passed the Farm Bill, or its version thereof. The vote was 79-14, very close to the 78-12 vote to limit debate...

Fish farms endanger wild salmon off Canada coast

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Fish farms are bringing nearby wild salmon populations dangerously close to extinction, according to a new study published in today's is...

Senate removes timber payments from energy bill

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Before passing an energy bill yesterday, the U.S. Senate removed a section "that would have extended for four years payments to rural c...

Rising cost of hay puts pressure on livestock

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Last month we wrote about how drought and other extreme weather had created a shortage of hay throughout the country. The prices for hay ar...

Illinois High School Association sues Illinois Press Association, newspapers, over athletic photos

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The Illinois High School Association and the Illinois Press Association have been fighting over photo rights for high school championship...
Thursday, December 13, 2007

Forest Service says proposed Virginia power plant would threaten wilderness area in North Carolina

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The U.S. Forest Service says a proposed power plant in southwest Virginia could reduce visibility and the air quality needed by some plants ...

Bid to lower farm subsidy cap falls short in Senate

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The U.S. Senate voted 56 to 43 today to limit farm program payments to $250,000 per producer, but that was four votes short of the 60 needed...

Booming immigration in some Iowa counties makes it a major issue for the presidential caucuses

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In 1851, the five-year-old state of Iowa created Buena Vista County, naming it for a great battle of the Mexican War. Now some call the coun...
Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Church-driven Huckabee surge draws eyes of some who want to keep the tax-exempt out of politics

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Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee has gained the lead in polls of likely Republican caucus-goers in Iowa, "driven largely by an eleven...

Huckabee, seeking Cuban American votes in Fla., switches stand and now supports Cuban embargo

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When Mike Huckabee was governor of Arkansas, the nation's seventh most rural state, he opposed the trade embargo of Cuba, as did many in...
Monday, December 10, 2007

Farm Bill debate finally begins in the Senate

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The U.S. Senate is finally debating the Farm Bill, touching off a furious, last-minute siege of lobbying and editorializing on the five-year...
Sunday, December 09, 2007

Potentially harmful levels of weedkiller atrazine showing up in streams in Missouri and Indiana

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"Atrazine, the second most widely used weedkiller in the country, is showing up in some streams and rivers at levels high enough to po...

Banks, rural electrics, economic-development groups try to keep young people in rural Iowa

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In Iowa, "Banks, rural electric cooperatives, economic development groups and governments are striving to stem the outflow of young ta...
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Presidential candidates need small-town values and solutions for small-town problems, columnist says

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The first presidential caucus and two of the first three primaries occur in states with disproportionately rural populations, but "Ther...
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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