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Saturday, February 03, 2018

Iowa editor says state Freedom of Information Council was key to reporting and editorials that won him a Pulitzer Prize

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Storm Lake Times  Editor Art Cullen said his weekly newspaper in Iowa wouldn't have won the Pulitzer Prize without help from the Iowa F...

Rural journalists win awards from Iowa Newspaper Assn.

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Several rural journalists won top awards from the Iowa Newspaper Association Friday at its Des Moines convention, perhaps the largest of ...

Gish Award for 2017 is presented to Cullen family of Iowa; nominations for 2018 award are being sought

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Art Cullen, left, and brother John hold the award after receiving it from Institute for Rural Journalism Director Al Cross. The Cullen ...
Friday, February 02, 2018

A liberal entrepreneur set out to help West Virginia and got a lesson in humility

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Rural areas are fighting uphill battles on multiple fronts: job creation, opioids, infrastructure, health care, and more, and there are no ...

Defining 'small town' in Wyoming, the least populous state

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The Casper Star Tribune recently kicked off  its year-long "Out Here" series on Wyoming's rural areas with a thorny questi...

Recent accidents prompt more debate about whether children should operate heavy farm equipment

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Kholer Schachtschneider, 8, operates a skid steer on his family farm. (New York Times photo by Alyssa Schukar) Kids helping their paren...

3 states and a province back plan to keep carp out of Great Lakes; key site is in Illinois, which isn't on board yet

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Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin and the Canadian province of Ontario are teaming up to help keep invasive Asian carp from getting into the Great ...

Environmental group says it will sue coal plant owner for toxic waste from coal ash leaching into Illinois river

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Toxic coal ash waste leaks into the Vermilion River (Prairie Rivers Network photo) In a case that could be repeated all over the countr...
Thursday, February 01, 2018

A green light for work requirements may trigger expansion of Medicaid in conservative Republican states

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"Republican lawmakers in a half-dozen states are launching fresh efforts to expand Medicaid, the nation’s health insurance program for...

Rural projects to make up a quarter of Trump's infrastructure plan; other details scant

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In his State of the Union address , President Trump asked Congress to write a bill that would fund at least $1.5 trillion in infrastructure...

'Waters of the U.S.' rule dead; EPA says it will consult with states, farmers, environmentalists about replacement

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Today Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt concluded the formal process of suspending the most controversial Obama-e...

Critics say new insurance policy denying 'non-essential' ER visits expects patients to diagnose themselves

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Cloyd with her daughter (Vox photo by Luke Sharrett) Anthem , one of the country's largest health-insurance companies, is increasin...
Wednesday, January 31, 2018

National Rural Teacher of the Year is a hunting and fishing teacher in upstate New York

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Scott Jordan The National Rural Education Association has named Scott Jordan the National Rural Teacher of the Year. Jordan teaches fi...

Senators want to let health-care providers use telemedicine to prescribe drugs to treat addiction, to help rural areas

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"Sens. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) and Alaska's two Republican senators -- Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan -- are requesting the Drug...

Fact-checking rural issues in the State of the Union address

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In his first State of the Union address last night, President Trump struck an optimistic tone heavy on American exceptionalism, with conser...
Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Libraries step in where local news presence declines

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In some places where local news presence is declining, public libraries are stepping in to fill the vacuum. "It makes sense that libra...

U.S. poet laureate launches reading tour of rural places

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Smith U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith has launched a pilot project to visit rural areas, where she says book festivals don't ofte...

Average age of American farmers is increasing partly because they can't afford to retire, farmer-columnist writes

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Art Thicke, 66, and his wife Jean, of LaCrescent, Minn., were featured in a recent story in the Winona Daily News about aging farmers...

Thursday is deadline for weeklies' editorial writing contest

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Feb. 1 is the deadline to enter editorials or staff-written opinion pieces in the 58th annual Golden Quill Award Contest of the Internatio...

'Day of action' Wed. focuses on student journalists' rights

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The Student Press Law Center is observing the first-ever Hazelwood Day of Action  on Wednesday, Jan. 31 -- 30 years after the U.S. Supreme ...