Friday, November 28, 2025

Rural public media struggling in the face of funding cuts

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We became aware this summer, when the Trump administration announced cuts to public broadcasting and the abolition of the Corporation for Pu...
Wednesday, November 26, 2025

On using localism to help save rural America

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This is from Jeffrey Tyler Syck on Persuasion's Substack on Tuesday, Nov. 25, "Localism, Not Nationalism, Will Cure What Ails Rura...
Tuesday, November 25, 2025

New angles on rural library closure, with a story out of central Washington

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Library in Kingtson, Arkansas 2013 Major media outlets have published several rural library stories --most of them about the closure of rura...
Monday, November 24, 2025

New book: Global Reflections on Positionality in Rural Access to Justice

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Global Reflections on Positionality in Rural Access to Justice  Research  is published today by Bloomsbury.  The co-editors of this antholog...
Sunday, November 23, 2025

Farm Bureau skirts Obamacare (ACA) requirements on health plans

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The Washington Post story is here , under the headline, "More states are offering cheap health plans to farmers, with a catch."  T...
Friday, November 21, 2025

Rural K-12 education deficits draw (at least) momentary attention from New York Times

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Jessica Grose of the New York Times wrote earlier this week about the plight of rural schools.  The headline is "Rural Kids Need More...
Thursday, November 20, 2025

Ro Khanna talks "Epstein class" in relation to rural and working-class unrest

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David Leonhardt interviewed U.S. Congressman Ro Khanna on the NYT opinion podcast yesterday under the headline, "The Democrat Who Spli...
Tuesday, November 18, 2025

New survey shows (some) rural Americans more optimistic than their urban counterparts

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The AP reported yesterday on a new survey from the American Communities Project that shows, among other findings, that certain rural Ameri...
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Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Calls to divide California into two states revived after passage of Prop 50

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California Assemblyman James Gallagher (R-Yuba City) is again pushing to split the state into two, re-energized by the recent passage of Pro...
Friday, November 7, 2025

Greatest protest against Prop 50 in California from state's northeast corner

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California voters passed Proposition 50--the law that dramatically gerrymandered the state's Congressional districts--by a wide margin (...
Thursday, November 6, 2025

NYT's Thomas Edsall on the current food stamp controversy, including rural and racial differences

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Thomas Edsall's column in the New York Times this week is under the provocative headline, "It Would be Trump's Honor to Pay fo...