Monday, December 29, 2025

Rural health "slush fund" distributions announced

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Fall River Mills, California (c) Lisa R. Pruitt 2018 The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced this week the establishment of...
Saturday, December 27, 2025

NYT feature on the consequences of California redistricting on rural northstate

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Kellen Browning reports for the New York Times under the headline, " They Wanted a Conservative State. They Might Get a Democratic Repr...
Friday, December 26, 2025

New Hampshire (once again) tries to restrict student voting (Part IV): documents, documents, and more documents

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This is Part IV in my look at New Hampshire's history of attempting to disenfranchise college student voters. For Part I, which provides...
Wednesday, December 17, 2025

CalMatters does deep dive into flat-fee contracts for indigent defense

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Anat Rubin reports today for CalMatters, the non-profit news service, under the headline, " The Walmart of Public Defense:  How Justice...
Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Congress (finally) renews Secure Rural Schools Act, through 2027

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Congress voted overwhelmingly yesterday to renew the Secure Rural Schools Act.  Here's an excerpt from the Los Angeles Times coverage, b...
Monday, December 8, 2025

Chronicle of Higher Education features LSU-Alexandria as an institution successfully serving rural students

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Dan Berrett reports on Louisiana State University-Alexandria's success in surviving the rural area amidst which it sits.  The headline ...
Saturday, December 6, 2025

Daniel Woodrell, author of "Winter's Bone," dies, taking with him a particular manifestation of "country noir"

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Here's the lede from the New York Times obituary by Alex Traub:  Daniel Woodrell, a novelist known for prose as rugged and elemental as...
Tuesday, December 2, 2025

Another NYT take on rural culture, in relation to Trump and MAGA

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Today's New York Times Opinions podcast features a conversation about " The Aesthetic that Explains American Identity Now ." ...
Monday, December 1, 2025

Democrats say they'll do more to attract rural voters

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Ashley Lopez reported for NPR a few days ago  on Democrats' plan to vie from aggressively for rural voters.  Here's an excerpt about...
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...