Law and order news dominates the front page of the February 18, 2010, issue of the Newton County Times . First, the county has decided to s...

Read Dan Barry's story about Upham, New Mexico , and its planned space port here . According to Wikipedia, Upham is uninhabited, whic...

The February 4 and February 11 issues of the Newton County Times don't have a lot of law and order news to report, but there are some s...

Read the story in today's New York Times , which suggests that "monument," as in "national monument" is a fighting ...

That was a theme of two stories I heard or read yesterday, from different parts of the country. The first was about the Mekong River, and w...

I've just finished an essay called "How You Gonna' Keep Her Down on the Farm ..." for a collection of essays about the au...

Well, yes, rural and urban communities want to claim prison populations for some purposes--specifically because of the federal monies and po...

Who knew the news would give me cause the write another post with this headline so soon after the first , but this story in today's New...

I have been intrigued by the attention national media have given this week to a criminal trial in West Texas . Ann Mitchell, an administr...

Scholars and policy makers have identified idleness among rural youth as a serious problem (see here ), and as a somewhat related matter, Sa...

This story in yesterday's New York Times , headlined "Once Stigmatized, Food Stamps Find Acceptance," draws anecdotes on the ...