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Friday, February 17, 2017

Farmers shun local stores to buy chemicals online; tool allows them to compare prices and save big

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FBN tool shows what others are paying for the same products A growing number of farmers are shopping online to save money, Jesse Newman...

Invasive bugs found in fallen trees three years after a tornado; be careful collecting firewood

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Damage caused by ash bark beetles (Forest Service photo) That firewood you collected from a fallen tree after a storm could be brimming...

Unlike other federal agencies, EPA has not posted on social media since Trump took office

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Screen shot today of EPA Twitter account The Environmental Protection Agency has not posted on social media since President Trump took...

One month after opening Missouri state park closes because of 'potential public safety concerns'

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Jay Nixon State Park (photo by Missouri Department of Natural Resources) One month after opening, Missouri's newest state park has ...

Six states ask Supreme Court to hear lawsuit against California’s egg production law

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Alabama, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, Nebraska and Oklahoma are asking the U.S. Supreme Court "to hear the case against California’s eg...

Colo. study links oil and gas industry to childhood cancer; state official says it's not persuasive

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Oil and natural-gas operations can be linked to childhood cancers, says a study by researchers at the University of Colorado published in...
Thursday, February 16, 2017

Repealing Medicaid expansion could put more rural hospitals at risk; Tenn. senator says not to worry

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Repealing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act could lead to an increase in the number of vulnerable rural hospitals, Shawn Radcl...

Paper reveals its county, home to a big university, is high in poverty and low in upward mobility

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Greg Townshend, recently released from prison, found work in Boone County through a statewide program for at-risk youth. (Daily Tribune p...

What residents in one rural Arizona border town think about increased security, plans for a wall

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Residents in a rural border town are not happy being told what should happen in their neck of the woods by Americans and politicians from...

Science website launched for whistleblowers, in response to Trump administration's gag order

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Citing concern that the Trump administration will not be transparent, especially when it comes to climate change, the  Union of Concerned S...

Rural Mainstreet Index highest since September 2015, but remains negative for 18th straight month

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The Rural Mainstreet Index in February reached its highest level since September 2015, but still remains negative, below 50 on a 0-100 sca...
Wednesday, February 15, 2017

Near-disaster at California dam is a reminder that U.S. has thousands of high-hazard dams

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Damaged spillway with eroded hillside near Oroville, Calif. ( California Department of Water Resources photo) The near-disaster at Oro...

Privatized fishing rights mean the industry has less economic benefit for coastal towns

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A national push to make seafood more sustainable is forcing small and independent fishing operations to compete with wealthy investors an...
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As rural areas become more conservative and cities more liberal, conflict between them increases

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"The United States is coming to resemble two countries, one rural and one urban," says The Atlantic , over a story by David A. G...

Nation's biggest fresh garlic producer quickly solves its labor shortage by raising wages $2 an hour

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The nation's biggest producer of fresh garlic found a simple way to combat a labor shortage: offer employees better wages, Natalie Ki...

Education secretary's lack of rural experience makes rural school advocates uneasy

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Rural school advocates say Education Secretary Betsy DeVos's lack of rural experience is a cause for concern, Tim Marema reports for...

Environmentalists sue over freeze on protections for rusty-patched bumblebee

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The Natural Resources Defense Council  has filed a lawsuit against the Interior Department and the Fish and Wildlife Service  it oversees ...
Tuesday, February 14, 2017

How to discern facts from 'alternative facts'

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By Danielle Ray Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues University of Kentucky College of Communication and Information In ...

Rural areas lead older Americans' increasing use of drugs that alter the user's mental state

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Researchers have found that "the number of retirement-age Americans taking at least three psychiatric drugs more than doubled between...

Voter turnout in Republican rural areas was much higher than in nearby Democratic industrial centers

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Democrats still trying to figure out what went wrong during the presidential election need only to look at voter turnout from rural areas s...