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Saturday, August 23, 2008

Amish booming; have communities in 28 states

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"America’s Amish population has nearly doubled and spread out in the past 16 years due to large families ... marriages within the comm...
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Oregon Rural Congress meets during rough patch

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UPDATE, Sept. 8: "Rural Oregonians were feeling tramped on, abused and ignored. But instead of just complaining, they decided to get t...
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Shift from confined animal feeding operations would raise meat prices but cut other costs

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"Even meat companies agree that change is unavoidable" in the system of industrial-scale feeding operations that produce most of A...
Thursday, August 21, 2008

Curing persistent poverty requires more social capital, not more federal grants, study suggests

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"What does it take for a rural place to be economically vibrant?" the Daily Yonder asks, and answers: "Bowling centers help....

For 50 years at the same station, Don Neagle has kept up the public-service traditions of rural radio

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Radio news has been in decline for 20 years or more, but in some rural communities, dedicated owners, managers and announcers keep up the tr...
Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Illinois papers closing, cutting statehouse bureaus

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Financial pressures on the newspaper industry continue to shrink statehouse news bureaus that have long brought localized and occasionally g...

Journalists invited to take part in wilderness medicine training class in upstate New York

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Journalists, including photographers, are invited to observe and to participate in the 2008 Adirondack Wilderness Medicine class of Cornell ...

Va. mountain county requires residents to pay for sewer service if a line runs past their home

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One of the more controversial things a rural government can do is force residents to pay for a service even if they don't use it. But in...

In Great Plains, boom continues, but residents remember that what goes up must come down

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"Interest rate cuts and stimulus checks are helping ease the pain" in Sun Belt states and others hit hard by foreclosures, "b...
Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Deputy poses as big-time reporter, gets small-town scribe to give number of source, who is arrested

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"A sheriff's deputy in North Carolina posed as a Newsweek reporter to coax an anonymous source out of a local newspaper journalist...

Why some of us stick to print: the feel and smell

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"I think part of the reason we are saddened by the end of the physical newspaper has to do with the senses. There's the sound of pa...
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In Des Moines, Gannett cuts lead to departure of veteran farm writer and one of two D.C. reporters

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The 3 percent staff cuts in Gannett Co. Inc. are costing The Des Moines Register its longtime farm writer and one of its two reporters in W...
Monday, August 18, 2008

Carbon sequestration, the key to 'clean coal,' might produce more pollutants, study says

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Carbon capture and storage, or sequestration, is touted as the way to make coal "clean," or at least eliminate or greatly reduce t...

Wind-power projects can lead to small-town graft

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There's a boom in wind power in upstate New York, but the developers have brought not only controversy, but "an epidemic of corrup...
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U.S. export boom helps farms, not factories

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Farm products are part of a boom in U.S. exports, "the bright spot this year in an otherwise bleak economy," writes Louis Uchitell...
Sunday, August 17, 2008

Tests for rural journalism, from a thoughtful editor

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When Ben Ezzell, editor and publisher of The Canadian Record in Canadian, Tex., died in 1993, his daughter and successor, Laurie Ezzell Br...
Saturday, August 16, 2008

McCain scores most points in faith-oriented forum, but Obama probably helped himself too

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As Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama prepared for their back-to-back interviews by pastor Rick Warren at his Saddleback Church in Orange Co...

New law designed to help rural higher education

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The new federal higher-education law , which President Bush signed Thursday, includes "provisions supported by a rural coalition of col...
Friday, August 15, 2008

Big grant from Kentucky's tobacco-settlement fund was spent with little accountability, auditor says

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Kentucky's state auditor "released a highly critical report Friday on nearly $5 million in agriculture marketing grants from Kentuc...

Dream of telemedicine often deferred by financial, legal and government policy obstacles

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Telemedicine holds great potential for rural health care, and even for economic development, but "there are still major obstacles that ...