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Saturday, September 14, 2013

Obamacare recruiters hit resistance in rural Ky.; outreach in key part of rural N.C. is lacking

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Promoters of the new health-insurance system being created under the federal health-reform law are running into resistance in rural Kentuck...

Coal's hopes that exports will make up for domestic decline are dashed

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"The ailing American coal industry, which has pinned its hopes on exports to counter a declining market at home, is scaling back its ...
Friday, September 13, 2013

Pa. attorney general brings charges against Marcellus Shale production company for spill

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Kathleen Kane The office of Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane has entered unprecedented waters. Kane's office is the first...

Missouri governor's veto of bill criminalizing enforcement of federal gun laws stands

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The Republican-dominated legislature in Missouri failed to override Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon's veto of a bill aimed at criminalizing...

Alabama paper plant, town's leading employer with 1,100 workers, closing due to lower demand

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" International Paper, the largest employer in Lawrence County, will close its Courtland (Ala.) plant by early next year, leaving 1,...

Farm Safety and Health Week kicks off Monday; farming is the most dangerous profession

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It's time to celebrate safety. National Farm Safety and Health Week, observed since 1944, runs from Sept. 15-21, with the theme this ...

Fracking boom in Pennsylvania goes bust

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"It's been a little more than two years since a then-new Gov. [Tom] Corbett famously pledged to make Pennsylvania 'the Texas o...

Committee Chairman Lucas: Congress must 'think outside the box' to save the Farm Bill

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Rep. Frank Lucas "House Agriculture Committee Chairman Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) says more 'outside the box' thinking will be...
Thursday, September 12, 2013

Maine drive-in is first to win projector to convert to digital; others to be announced soon

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UPDATE, Sept. 23: Four more theaters were awarded digital projectors on Monday. Winners were: Stateline Drive-In, Elizabethton, Tenn.; St...

Wind farms responsible for at least 85 eagle deaths in last 15 years, maybe many more

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Golden eagle Wind farms have killed 85 eagles in 10 states over the past 15 years, with Wyoming and California reporting the most casua...

Tennessee artist captures portraits of hundreds in his small, coalfield community

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The small town of Petros in East Tennessee is best known for coal mining, and a now-closed state penitentiary that housed 500 to 600 pr...

Study measures mountaintop removal's effect on the Central Appalachian landscape

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"To meet current U.S. coal demand through surface mining, an area of the Central Appalachians the size of Washington, D.C., would ne...

State takes over grantmaking from greatly shrunken N.C. Rural Economic Development Center

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The North Carolina Rural Economic Development Center has been in the news for all the wrong reasons, with auditors finding  in July that ...
Wednesday, September 11, 2013

County boss calls lawmakers into daily session; weekly paper challenges legality of the call

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Have those of you who have covered and watched county governments for a long time ever seen anything like Shannon Brock reports for The Spe...

Coal's fall in Colorado illustrates national decline

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In recent years coal mining has taken a serious hit in Central Appalachia and Eastern Kentucky , where coal mining jobs are diminishing, s...

Ex-official gets 3½ years for long conspiracy to hide coal-mine safety violations: 'common practice'

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"A former longtime Massey Energy official will spend three and a half years in prison for his admitted role in a decade-long co...

Two state senators in Colorado who supported gun-control bills are ousted in recall elections

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A pair of Democratic state senators in Colorado who supported stricter gun-control legislation were defeated in recall elections Tuesday. S...

Study: Expanding Medicaid would help many young white men, thus may cost less than expected

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Many people "who would become newly eligible for Medicaid are going to be younger white males who aren’t sick yet – but who are more ...
Tuesday, September 10, 2013

USDA program leads to contaminated meat; packers urge workers to ignore safety procedures

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A U.S. Department of Agriculture pilot program designed to speed up the rate of meat processing is leading to a higher rate of contaminated...

Reality show features prospecting in Colorado; participants are cited for failing to get permits

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Just when it seems reality television has run out of topics, The Weather Channel has started a reality series called "Prospectors,...