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Saturday, July 05, 2008

Kellogg Foundation expands Rural Policy Networks

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The W.K. Kellogg Foundation has added 26 more organizations to its Rural Policy Networks, a multi-year initiative designed to improve the l...

Forest Service would let big logger-turned-builder turn logging roads into streets for subdivisions

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"The Bush administration is preparing to ease the way for the nation's largest private landowner to convert hundreds of thousands o...
Friday, July 04, 2008

Fla., Ga., Ind., Ill., Md., Ohio win flexibility in plans to comply with No Child Left Behind Act

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The U.S. Department of Education this week allowed six states to write their own plans for complying with the No Child Left Behind Act, a la...

Feds arrest two Hispanic supervisors of Iowa plant that was scene of largest immigration raid yet

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Two supervisors at the meatpacking plant targeted in the country's largest immigration raid were arrested Thursday on charges that they ...

Rural broadband still expanding, but more slowly; can be important in taking college-prep courses

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The share of rural American homes with high-speed Internet service, or broadband, grew 23 percent in the past year, according to the latest ...

Latest in the horse crisis: Wild horses, burros are so numerous, feds may have to kill some

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When I was a kid in the 1960s, my father was a car dealer, and his prize in a sales contest was a trip to Las Vegas. He took a tour of the ...

Labor leader Trumka hits race head-on for Obama

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Richard Trumka, left, grew up in Nemacolin, Pa., a town of 1,000 on the Monongahela River in southern Pennsylvania, and went on to be pres...
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Thursday, July 03, 2008

California restores prohibition on serial meetings

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California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed legislation today to restore the state open-meetings law's ban on serial meetings, a common...

Agriculture Dept. issues improved crop forecast

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The U.S. harvest was staggering toward disaster several weeks ago, but flickers of hope surfaced on Monday., David Streitfeld report for Th...
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Newsprint price increases squeeze all newspapers

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Rural and other community newspapers with strong local-news franchises have been insulated from Internet competition, but all newspapers are...
Wednesday, July 02, 2008

Murdoch keeps Ottaway, remains a rural publisher

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News Corp. has decided not to sell Ottaway Newspapers , the community-paper chain that it acquired as part of its purchase of Dow Jones ...

It bears repeating: Gas prices hit rural areas worst

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USA Today has picked up where The New York Times left off almost four weeks ago, reminding the nation that high fuel prices hit rural peo...
Tuesday, July 01, 2008

Winslow Mail: Killed by a cynical reporter?

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The Winslow Mail died seven months ago. "As with many obituaries, the Mail's neglected to mention a cause of death," Dennis W...

Mo. reporter easily reveals fake cop, gets noticed

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Linda Trest , a reporter at the Gasconade County Republican in Missouri, has made national news with her uncovering of the record of a man ...

Wal-Mart says it is top buyer of in-state produce

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Wal-Mart Stores Inc. , known for its hard bargaining with national suppliers, said today that it is the largest buyer of locally grown frui...

Patriotism, then faith: Obama in smaller cities

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Making his second small-city appearance in as many days, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama told a crowd in Zanesville...

Ron Filkins, a journeyman journalist who was at home anywhere he went, is remembered fondly

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A memorial service was held yesterday for a journeyman journalist who worked many places in his career, usually for newspaper groups, but al...

Miss. law opening police reports takes effect, but some agencies slow-walk journalists' requests

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A new law giving Mississippians access to police incident reports took effect today, following a strong campaign by the state's newspape...

Republicans to target rural battlegrounds with ads about Obama, guns; NRA plans to spend millions

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The Republican National Committee and the National Rifle Association will be going after Barack Obama's record on guns, both said last...

W. Va.'s second wind-energy station is generating

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West Virginia's second wind-energy generating station has gone into service "quietly," reports The Charleston Gazette , which ...