Thursday, September 1, 2022

And the winner, by a head, is Alaska Native Democrat Mary Peltola

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Peltola beat former Vice Presidential candidate (2008) and former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin 51.5% to 48.5% in Alaska's ranked-choice v...

On the panhandle's key role in the Texas gubernatorial race

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The Houston Chronicle reports today on the importance of the ruby red Texas panhandle in the state's race for governor.   Jeremy Wallac...
Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Mary Peltola digging in for (rural) Alaska

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NPR reported yesterday afternoon on her campaign and, implicitly or explicitly, its Alaska Native and rural orientation.  Here's an exc...
Tuesday, August 30, 2022

Reporting from Demstock ("all things Democrat") in rural Pennsylvania

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Here's an excerpt from the story by Jon Moss of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette , dateline Frenchcreek Township, population 1,412  in Venang...
Monday, August 29, 2022

A week at a rural food delivery site

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A few weeks ago, I spent several days in Crescent City, California (population 6,673) as part of a service project with an organization cal...
Sunday, August 28, 2022

Is a power line from rural Wyoming to Los Angeles a prototype for transforming energy production and delivery in the West?

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Sammy Roth writes for the Los Angeles Times as part of the "Repowering the West" series, " This power line could save Califo...
Thursday, August 25, 2022

NPR reports on how rural stores are surviving these days

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Stephan Bisaha reports for NPR from Kewanee, Mississippi , on the Alabama state line in Lauderdale County, population 80,000 .  Here's ...
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Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Washington Post on Beto O'Rourke's forays into hostile, rural territory

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The latest coverage of O'Rourke's effort to cultivate the rural vote in his run for Governor of Texas is by Jada Yuan in the Washing...
Tuesday, August 23, 2022

California warns farmers and ranchers to stop diverting water as thousands of fish in Klamath River die

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The Associated Press reports, dateline Happy Camp, California, population 905 .   California has warned a group of farmers and ranchers near...
Monday, August 22, 2022

An update on the proposed closure of prison in rural California

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Hailey Branson-Potts brought us an update this weekend in the Los Angeles Times   on the fate of a prison in Susanville, California, populat...
Saturday, August 20, 2022

Another rural vote story, this one by The Economist, out of Maine

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Here's the lede for the Lexington column, titled " Democrats are wrong to give up on rural America. "  Maine’s 1.3m citizens a...