Friday, August 12, 2022

Rural Colorado school administrator in hot water for trying to do the right thing?

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The Colorado Sun reported a few days ago from Brush, population 5,399 , under the headline, " Rural Colorado school administrators inve...
Thursday, August 11, 2022

Jennifer Rubin on how Democratic legislative wins play in an increasingly rural and exurban congressional district

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Rubin's column in the Washington Post is titled, " Democrats are on a legislative roll. That’s great news for this congresswoman ....
Tuesday, August 9, 2022

On John Fetterman's rural strategy in the Pennsylvania Senate race

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I published this opinion piece today in Politico Magazine, "John Fetterman is Running a Test that Democrats Need to Watch."   Her...
Monday, August 8, 2022

New book talks boundary-to-boundary poverty in rural Oregon

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Michelle Wilde Anderson's new book, The Fight to Save the Town ,  features the stories of three municipalities and one county, the latte...
Sunday, August 7, 2022

Bloomberg feature on closure of maternity wards, hospitals in rural America

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Claire Suddath reports for Bloomberg under the headline, " A Very Dangerous Place to Be Pregnant Is Getting Even Scarier. "  The s...
Friday, August 5, 2022

One more piece (for now) on the Kansas abortion vote, this one on how it defies rural and red-state stereotypes

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Author Sarah Smarsh published in the New York Times a few days ago an essay titled, " Why the Defense of Abortion in Kansas is so Powe...

Big NYT feature acknowledges how government and corporate forces left Kentucky vulnerable to flooding

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" How Coal Mining and Years of Neglect Left Kentucky Towns at the Mercy of Flooding " is the headline for a big story out of easte...
Thursday, August 4, 2022

More on the rural vote in relation to the failed Kansas abortion amendment

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New York Time s map Here's how the New York Times explained  the abortion rights referendum in Kansas:  The ballot referendum was rooted...
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Wednesday, August 3, 2022

Fun fact about the history of college campuses--and their relation to rurality

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From a New York Times essay about why universities are out of touch.  Nick Burns, editor of the American Quarterly, writes in "Elite ...
Tuesday, August 2, 2022

Big headline from today's primaries: Rural Kansas doesn't quite come through for "pro-lifers"

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A referendum on the (state-based) constitutional right to an abortion in Kansas came down on the pro-choice side tonight  (59-41%), and folk...

On the corporate causes of inequality across the rural-urban divide in northwest Arkansas

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Olivia Paschal writes for The American Prospect from my neck of the woods, " The Modern Day Company Towns of Arkansas ."  I'm ...