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Friday, February 21, 2020

Attacks rise on paid public notices, an increasing part of newspapers' income; Ky. legislation creates rural-urban split

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UPDATE: The House budget committee chair put, in a bill accompanying the state budget, language that would allow cities, counties and sch...

Quick hits: rural residents wait longer for ambulances; new book explores how Democrats can win back rural voters

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Here's a roundup of stories with rural resonance; if you do or see similar work that should be shared on The Rural Blog, email us at he...

Researcher offers tips for local journalists to cope with hostile online audiences in the election season and beyond

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"Being on the receiving end of cruel and harassing comments online is part of the job for journalists today, "Andrea Martin write...

USDA chief economist said China will probably buy more U.S. goods than last year, but much less than they promised

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When the U.S. and China signed a partial trade deal in January, President Trump promised that China would purchase about $40 billion in Ame...

Study notes top 3 reasons rural people are dying off faster than city dwellers; class, insurance and lack of doctors

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Rural residents have been dying at a younger age, on average, than their urban counterparts since the 1980s, and that gap is widening. Rese...
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Thursday, February 20, 2020

Fact-checking and recapping the Democratic primary debate

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Last night, the top Democratic presidential candidates took to a stage in Las Vegas for a fiery debate moderated by journalists from NBC Ne...

China to allow U.S. to apply for agriculture tariff waivers

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China announced Tuesday that, starting March 2, it will allow importers to apply for tariff exemptions on 696 American goods, the third roun...

March 23 Agri-Pulse Ag & Food Policy Summit in D.C. to explore issues like climate change, swine flu and more

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Head to Washington, D.C., March 23 for the 2020 Agri-Pulse Ag & Food Policy Summit , a day-long exploration of agriculture and food pol...

EPA proposes further rollbacks to coal ash regulations

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The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday announced a new proposed rollback to an Obama-era regulation dealing with waste from coa...

Poverty journalist says rural Black Belt deserves more federal funding and attention, like Appalachia has received

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A map showing deeply disadvantaged counties in the South (left) compared to an 1860 Census map showing slavery distribution across the D...
Wednesday, February 19, 2020

Join Feb. 27 Twitter chat to discuss rural health-care stakeholder strategies to maximize rural census count

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The Rural Health Information Hub will host a Twitter chat at 2 p.m. ET on Feb. 27 to discuss how rural health stakeholders can help increa...

EPA allows massive use of antibiotics on citrus trees despite federal warnings antibiotic-resistant diseases will spread

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The Asian citrus psyllid, which spreads the disease  ( USDA photo) Florida citrus production has dropped 70 percent in the past 15 ...

USDA's five-year blueprint doesn't adequately address climate change or sustainability, farm economists write

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Over the past decade, climate change has increasingly hurt American farmers, but many farmers and farm groups have tried to ignore or downp...

Some small-town police try a new tactic in fighting the opioid epidemic: helping drug abusers instead of arresting them

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Officer John Cacela of Ware, Mass., and Emily Ligawiec take a weekly pottery class. Rather than arrest Ligawiec last winter when she took...

Sixteen states open offices to help rural areas cash in on outdoor recreation; most are in West; East targeted

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State Offices of Outdoor Recreation map; click the image to enlarge it. Some states are trying to help spur rural economic growth by o...
Tuesday, February 18, 2020

EPA poised to roll back mercury pollution regulation, but power sector isn't interested

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The Environmental Protection Agency is about to finalize a rollback on a rule that has cut emissions of mercury and other toxins, but the ...

Rural areas find road and bridge upkeep more difficult as traffic grows and trucks get heavier but taxes remain taboo

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"Throughout much of the Midwest and South, the  rural transportation system  is crumbling. Two-thirds of the nation’s freight emanat...

New liver-transplant rule will mean longer waits for many rural patients, say health-care officials fighting the change

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A new federal policy governing how donated livers are allocated is being criticized by health-care officials who say rural patients, especi...

Wolves have been back in Yellowstone Park for 25 years

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Yellowstone wolves keeping the elk population in check. ( Getty Images photo by Jeff Vanuga) Twenty-five years ago in January, U.S. a...

Poll underlines rural/urban partisan divides, but suggests possible bridges in worldviews and values

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A new Axios / Survey Monkey poll explores the notion that some of the rural-urban divide is driven by suspicion that people in other types...