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Friday, February 04, 2011

Utah legislature reaches out to rural counties

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The Utah Legislature is observing its first "Rural Legislative Day." Amy Joi O'Donoghue, of the Deseret News in Salt Lake Cit...

A rural Mass. town deals with development: "Any time you make changes folks get skittish"

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Change has come slowly to Marion, Mass., but more is coming, and the town is planning for it, reports Paul Kandarian for The Boston Globe ....

Finally, it's cool to be rural (but we knew that)

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Rural America, or at least urbanites' view of it, is becoming the hot trend in pop culture. "It's as clear as a dust cloud on t...

Va. ruralite says closing her town's post office would be step toward eliminating small-town life

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UPDATE, Feb. 5: Mary Garrigan of the Rapid City Journal goes to Howes, S.D., to write about possible post-office closures and their impact;...
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Thursday, February 03, 2011

Missing city chicken object of surprising fondness

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Elizabeth Giddens writes for The New York Times about one of her chickens, Gertrude, stolen from her Bedford-Stuyvesant coop-home. "Th...
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Proposal to end rural airports' subsidies poses philosophical challenge for newly elected GOPer

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Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., has introduced an amendment to an aviation bill in the Senate to eliminate the Essential Air Service program that...

USDA considers approving biotech corn; millers worry it could ruin their products

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture will decide soon whether to approve a form of biotech corn designed specifically for ethanol production....

Obama administration speaks out in favor of offshore wind power

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An Obama administration official announced Tuesday the administration is working to streamline leasing for offshore wind development, a move...

Project brings solar energy to West Virginia

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Solar energy is coming to the West Virginia coal fields on a small-scale basis. Proponents hope the project shows that renewable energy can ...

Another town struggles with Wal-Mart's arrival

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Tehachapi, Calif., population just over 12,000, is "the latest in a long line of rural communities grappling with how to maintain their...
Wednesday, February 02, 2011

County coroners often lack adequate skills and funding for death investigations

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Television shows like "CSI" may portray medical examiner offices as state-of-the-art facilities with highly qualified staffs, but ...

Wait for farm machinery increases as commodity prices go up and farms get larger

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As the size of farms and farm yields have increased, so has the demand and waiting time for farm machinery. "Five years ago, a new trac...

Scholarship program may not reach rural students

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Alaska ranks last among all states in sending students to college, especially when getting poor students to college. A 2010 law which provid...

Cooperative Extension Service is dealing with budget cuts in many states; more expected

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The recent cuts that the University of Tennessee recently announced in its Cooperative Extension Service are the latest in a series of cut...
Tuesday, February 01, 2011

House Democrats allege diesel use in fracking operations violates Safe Water Drinking Act

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Congressional investigators allege oil and gas companies appear to have violated the Safe Water Drinking Act by injecting millions of gallon...

Schools have specific duties when dealing with homeless students

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Communities across the country have begun the mandated biennial count of their homeless populations, but the rural homeless are likely to be...

Rural landowners can take steps to limit poaching

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Poaching is usually considered an act of trespassing with the intent to take an animal and can be more than just a nuisance for rural landow...

Rural Ore. schools convert to charter schools

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Some rural Oregon schools are turning to an unlikely solution for added funding: becoming charter schools. When superintendent Mike Hughes a...
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Roger and Beth Ailes and their small-town newspaper, and a competitor, improve coverage

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UPDATE: New York magazine reported Dec. 13 that the Aileses had sold the paper and the Putnam County Courier to their editor, Doug Cunning...
Monday, January 31, 2011

Teaching climate change in coal country presents special challenges

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Teaching climate change for any high school science teacher can be a difficult task. But in a place like Gillette, Wyoming, where livelihood...
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