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Saturday, February 23, 2013

Universal preschool would help many rural areas, but Obama overstates the potential benefits

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Providing preschool education to every American child would be a great boon to rural areas, which often lack it, but President Obama "...
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Contest invites rural teachers, students to submit videos comparing their community with another

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March 15 is the deadline for teachers and students in rural America to submit videos comparing and contrasting their community with a rur...

Are your rural schools closer to this essayist's dream, or to his nightmare?

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"Low regard for education is an unfortunate part of local history for many rural communities across the U.S.," Timothy Collins w...
Friday, February 22, 2013

45 years after RFK tour, poverty and grim coal industry forecast challenge Eastern Kentucky

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The weekly  Hazard Herald in southeastern Kentucky used the 45th anniversary of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy's “poverty tour” through...

Male cheerleader at small rural school makes news

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Male cheerleaders are common at colleges, but rare at rural schools, so it's news when one breaks the gender barrier, as Collin Hadle...

Weekly gets two reactions to front-page story on gay wedding: negative locally, positive globally

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The thrice-weekly  Laurel Leader-Call in southeast Mississippi lost some local support but gained a lot around the country after it publ...

Lobbying by hospitals, many of them rural, persuade GOP governors to expand Medicaid

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Florida Gov. Rick Scott's surprising announcement that he would use federal health-care reform money to expand the Medicaid program to ...
Thursday, February 21, 2013

Teen pregnancy declines more slowly in rural areas

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The national teen pregnancy rate is lower than ever, but "The teen birth rate in rural counties is nearly one-third higher than the re...

World agency set to give U.S. virtual clean bill of health for mad-cow disease, boosting beef industry

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The  Scientific Commission for the World Organization for Animal Health  has recommended that the U.S. beef supply be labeled at "negl...

Corn Belt expands northwest into marginal grassland, pinching perennial-crop biofuel hopes

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High corn and soybean prices are driving conversion of grassland, some of it marginal, to cropland in the western Corn Belt, posing the t...
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Report faults states' funding, help for local schools

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"A recent report commissioned by Congress found that states don’t fund education fairly across jurisdictions, need to do a better...

Entrepreneurship, a key to rural development, can be greatly aided by small-business incubators

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Experts agree that one way to encourage economic development in rural areas is to encourage entrepreneurship, and one increasingly popular ...
Wednesday, February 20, 2013

More women joining ranks of rural fire units, many of which have been running short of volunteers

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Women are coming to the rescue of rural fire departments that are running short of volunteers, joining a "traditionally male-domin...

Companies offer information-technology assistance from rural locations

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Last call for economic-data reporting workshop

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There’s still time to sign up for a free workshop in Louisville from 2-5 p.m. on Feb. 27: Breaking Local Stories with Economic Data . Pre...

Some in Appalachia have prison buyer's remorse

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"Rural communities, especially in Central Appalachia, recruit prisons hoping to land jobs. But some Eastern Kentucky leaders who got ...
Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Nascar (or, if you prefer, NASCAR) tries to add younger, urban and multicultural fans to rural base

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Stock-car racing, which developed from moonshine runners in the hills of Southern Appalachia and still has a base of "older, rural w...
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Coal power plant shelved; Obama, natural gas cited

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Plans to build one of "the cleanest coal-fired generators in the world" as the company put it, have been shelved. White Stallion ...

Interactive maps and graphic show drought impact

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How badly were your state's crops hit by last year's drought, and how does that compare to neighboring states? New data from the De...
Monday, February 18, 2013

Postal Service poll on Sat. delivery is questioned

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The U.S. Postal Service says an online poll taken for it by Ipsos shows that about 80 percent of Americans, even in rural areas, favor ...