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Saturday, January 15, 2011

Appeals court voids big verdict against Klansman

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A $1.3 million verdict against the former leader of a Ku Klux Klan affiliate was overturned yesterday by the Kentucky Court of Appeals, whi...
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Friday, January 14, 2011

Tractor Supply known for knowledgeable staff

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Gary M. Stern, for Investor's Business Daily , reports on Brentwood, Tenn., based Tractor Supply -- the biggest rural retailer in the U...

Three rural Wisconsin newspapers combine to make new weekly

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Three weekly rural Wisconsin newspapers -- the Arcadia News-Leader, Whitehall Times , and the former Galesville Republican -- have combined...

Audit finds that Recovery Act loans for rural homes were made to some ineligible borrowers

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Part of the 2009 economic stimulus package included federally-backed loans for rural homes. Last year, the guarantees reached nearly $16.8 b...

Iowa doctor permitted to provide abortion pills to rural women via video

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The Iowa Board of Medicine has decided to allow Planned Parenthood of the Heartland to continue using a video system to provide abortion p...

USDA proposes overhaul to school lunches; awards grant to fight rural child obesity

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A U.S. Department of Agriculture proposal released Thursday would require school cafeterias to serve children more whole grains, fruits and ...

Recent rise in farm debt resembles the run-up to the 1980s farm debt crisis

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Farm debt has risen almost five percent annually since 2004, the largest increase since the years leading up to the 1980s farm debt crisis. ...
Thursday, January 13, 2011

PolitiFact sets its meters on Congress, governors; The Washington Post revives its FactChecker

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PolitiFact , the fact-checking website that won a Pulitzer Prize for the St. Petersburg Times in 2009, has launched new watchdog measurinm...

Boss of biggest rural paper leaves to run schools

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The chief excutive of the largest rural newspaper in the U.S., which has editorially supported use of private-sector managers in public educ...

Small-town Louisiana reporter digs into brutal, racially tinged murder; N.Y. Times follows up

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A 46-year-old murder case has gotten new scrutiny by the 4,000-circulation weekly newspaper in Ferriday, La., drawing the attention of The N...

Sale of private forests further endangers species

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The key for protecting woodland plants and creatures may be stemming the sale of private forests, says a U.S. Forest Service report. ...

EPA gives biomass industry three-year exemption from new greenhouse-gas regulations

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In September we reported concerns from the biomass industry about possible greenhouse-gas regulations from the Environmental Protection Age...

Rural school funding case reaches S.D. Supreme Court; justice says 'No one wants to live there'

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The South Dakota Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in a case where parents say rural schools do not receive adequate state funding. ...

EPA vetoes biggest mountaintop-removal permit

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The Environmental Protection Agency has vetoed the largest mountaintop-removal mining permit ever sought, for Arch Coal 's proposed Spr...
Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Meatpacker to clean effluent at big Colo. plant

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Meatpacking giant Cargill on Tuesday announced plans to improve the quality of water discharged from its beef processing facility in Colora...

Ky. town bids fond farewell to general store

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The closing of a historic general store in one Kentucky community meant more to locals than having to find a new place to shop. "Piece ...

Switchgrass shows promise for Ky. farmers

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The growing market for new energy sources could be providing a new crop for farmers, especially Kentucky tobacco farmers. " A pilot pro...

Cellulosic ethanol industry fell short of 2010 goal; none was blended commercially in 2nd half

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No cellulosic ethanol was commercially blended with gasoline in the second half of 2010 though the federal renewable fuel standard called fo...
Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Duke Energy plans to acquire Progress Energy; not a good sign for the coal industry

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Duke Energy, based in Charlotte, N.C.,  has proposed a $13.7 billion stock-swap acquisition of Progress Energy , based in Raleigh, N.C., re...
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Foreclosures spread beyond Mass. urban areas

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A recent study by the Massachusetts Housing Partnership has found that more home foreclosures are outside the state's urban areas than ...