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Saturday, November 15, 2008

As Amish population booms in Kentucky, one sect fights law requiring safety emblems on buggies

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We reported in August that the Amish population in the U.S. had nearly doubled last 16 years. This week, Peter Smith of The Courier-Journa...
Friday, November 14, 2008

Broad coalition urges Obama to open government to more scrutiny, expand data available on Web

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A broad coalition is urging the new administration "to use the Internet to publish reams of new information about federal spending, pol...

Nationally, race may have been a plus for Obama

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Way up north, in the Arrowhead of Minnesota, where winters start early and iron-ore mining has made the politics mainly Democratic, Marshall...
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Some rural advice for the president-elect

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Curtis Seltzer, rural land consultant and columnist, imagines that President-Elect Barack Obama comes to visit him in Blue Grass, Va.: ...

New California confinement law needs oversight to ensure animal welfare, veterinarians say

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Now that California has passed Proposition 2, limiting the confinement of animals, the American Veterinary Medical Association says veterina...

Rural W.Va. veterans a lot more likely than urban to have depression, post-traumatic stress disorder

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Rural veterans in West Virginia returning from Iraq or Afghanistan are showing high rates of post-traumatic stress disorder or depression, a...

Common method of drilling for gas may pose unregulated threats to underground water

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More evidence is being discovered that suggests drilling for natural gas has signiifcant consequences for the environment. While the Environ...

Weekly newspapers covered Agriprocessors Inc. and its big immigration raid differently than dailies

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The weekly Postville Herald-Leader in Iowa faced an unexpected challenge last May when the town suddenly became the center of a then-record...

As meth use drops, prescription-drug abuse rises

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Efforts to curb the rural-based methamphetamine epidemic have proven effective, but many abusers or potential abusers of that drug are turni...
Thursday, November 13, 2008

IBM to help rural electric cooperatives expand broadband via signals over power lines

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Most American homes without broadband Internet access are in rural areas, mainly because providers don't consider service in those areas...
Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Alaska's North Slope next frontier of domestic gas

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The U.S. Geological Survey has conducted a new study the results of could give a big boost to domestic energy production. Juliet Eilperin o...

Fast food menus are highly dependent on corn

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A study by University of Hawaii scientists shows how much Americans' fast-food menu depends on corn. They "tested fast-food items ...

Capturing methane from coal faces hurdles in West

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Efforts to reduce the greenhouse-gas impact of coal mining operations are running into obstacles in the West, writes Jodi Peterson of High C...
Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Imported road salt proves to be headache for city

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With many towns and cities facing road salt shortages, preparation for winter has led to increased imports of road salt. But Cedar Rapids, I...

Radio ad declines leading to more cuts in news

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Radio news, in decline for 20 years, is in for major blows as most ownership groups report declined in advertising revenue in the third quar...

Vote against animal confinement in California worries farmers across the nation

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The passing of Proposition 2 in California, which creates new livestock-welfare guidelines, has farmers in other states worried that their s...

Small station's 50th birthday is community event

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WANY Radio in Albany, Ky., celebrated 50 years on the air Saturday, Oct. 25. The station, 1000 watts on AM and 2,700 on FM, "celebrated...

EPA planning to calculate land-use changes in gauging greenhouse-gas impact of biofuels

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Already under fire for making food more expensive, biofuels, "long touted as green, are being criticized as bad for the planet," r...
Monday, November 10, 2008

Most-viewed stories on The Rural Blog last week

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Obama didn't resolve 'Appalachian problem,' but made progress; more so in other rural areas Palin's late Iowa stop raises qu...

Idea of road through refuge pits residents against environmentalists, who suspect hand of Big Oil

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A plan to build a 20-mile road, half of it in the wilderness of the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge on the Alaska Peninsula, has pitted are...