The Rural Blog

A digest of events, trends, issues, ideas and journalism from and about rural America, by the Institute for Rural Journalism, based at the University of Kentucky. Links may expire, require subscription or go behind pay walls. Please send news and knowledge you think would be useful to benjy.hamm@uky.edu.

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Federal prisons, overcrowded and increasingly unsafe, could become more so with budget cuts

AP issues style advisory on papacy, church

Education secretary sticks by sequestration view; key senators ask him for information about it

CBO: Farm Bill savings over next 10 years would be about $10 billion less than first projected

Postal Service says newspapers would be only mailing group hurt if it cuts Saturday mail delivery

In the largest state, the postal crisis looms larger

Utah town's law encourages citizens to own guns

Inmate labor, subject to abuse, helps rural places

Rural Republicans see no need to stop sequester

Iowan says he's high on the hog with new breed

First local health agencies, many rural, win national accreditation; is yours seeking it?

'When it comes to guns, subtle distinctions go out the window,' editor says after de-posting gun list

My view: There's more to tell in Cherokee County

How the Newtown Bee covered the mass killing: one story that doesn't need to be behind a paywall

Gun-control debate is an urban vs. rural one

Take care with cold-weather killer: space heater

Is there 'a farmer in all of us'? Recent episodes suggest agriculture is off the radar in D.C.

Drought makes USDA aggressive on climate issue

Stimulus programs for rural broadband leave some places with no access, others with too much

Loss of Saturday mail would hurt most in rural places, and at some of their newspapers