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Friday, November 26, 2010

Record number of meth labs in Ky. boosts bid for pseudoephedrine prescription law like Oregon's

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Kentucky law-enforcement officers found a record 111 methamphetamine labs last month, and the total of 939 found this year exceeds the annua...
Thursday, November 25, 2010

Sweet spuds not just for Thanksgiving anymore

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"After generations of being smothered by a blanket of marshmallows on Thanksgiving and then forgotten for another 11 months, the irrepr...

Hospital mistakes not declining, study finds

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Hospitals have not become safer for patients, the first major study in a decade suggests. A Harvard Medical School study of 10 unnamed rural...
Wednesday, November 24, 2010

New rural division for school sports in Florida begins in 2011-12 season

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The Florida High School Athletic Association voted Monday to accept a new classification system with a class for rural schools, reports D.C...

Homegrown turkeys being served this year

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Not all Thanksgiving turkeys are Butterballs. Homegrown turkeys are gracing the tables of small farm owners who raised the turkey along with...
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Small-market news outlets win awards for statehouse reporting from CapitolBeat group

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The Association of Capitol Reporters and Editors , also known as CapitolBeat, announced its 2010 Cappie winners . The awards are given annua...

Debt-reduction panels target rural programs

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Several rural programs are the target in the budget plans issued by two high-level government sponsored groups in recent weeks. The plan gar...

New health-care reform dollars to train more medical professionals

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The new federal health reform law will soon begin providing $290 million in financial assistance to medical, dental, and mental health care ...
Tuesday, November 23, 2010

'Coal in Kentucky' documentary debuts tonight

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Kentucky Educational Television has a two-car coal train tonight. We've already reported on the 10 p.m. EST broadcast premiere of ...

Ethanol subsidies could be next target in race to cut federal spending

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After scoring a victory by getting their party to commit to cutting earmarks, some anti-spending Republicans are pointing to federal ethanol...

Comment period open until Friday on application for coal mine on historic Blair Mountain

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Friday is the deadline for public comment with the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection on Massey Energy 's application ...
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Rural weekly newspaper keeps up the pressure on officials to deliver fast Internet service

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Sometimes we wonder if rural weekly newspapers are all that interested in bringing broadband to their communities, because newspapers are in...

Some rural publishers moonlight to keep papers going; some papers have a staff of one

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We don't know of anyone who compiles data on the demise of rural weekly newspapers, but the anecdotal evidence suggests that many of the...
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Health-reform rules to cap insurance-firm profits; could indirectly help many rural policyholders

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New federal rules will require U.S. health insurance companies to spend more on health care and its promotion and less on advertising, overh...
Monday, November 22, 2010

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette publishes three-part series on coal mining, safety and politics

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Daniel Malloy and Dennis B. Roddy , of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette , have written a three-part series on coal mining and its issues, beginn...

Pennsylvania hopes tourists flock to view elk herd

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Marcellus Shale drilling isn't the only strategy rural north-central Pennsylvania is turning to for new revenue. The area hopes to becom...

W.Va. meeting highlights health effects of mining

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The negative health effects of coal were the topic of a day-long seminar held Saturday at Marshall University . The seminar, sponsored by th...

Artisan cheese maker at center of food safety battle

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A Pacific Northwest cheese maker has become the center of the controversy surrounding the effect of proposed food safety rules on small farm...

Environmental justice moving up EPA agenda

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We've reported on the Environmental Protection Agency 's move to regulate disposal of coal ash. That initiative isn't the only o...
Saturday, November 20, 2010

Massey Energy boss mixes it up with national and local reporters for two and a half hours

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Don Blankenship, whose tenure as CEO of Massey Energy has been marked by contentious relations with the news media, spent two and a half ho...