Thursday, November 10, 2022

On the success of Fetterman's rural strategy

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Rural Organizing The Philadelphia Inquirer 's Julia Terruso and Jonathan Tamari report under the headline " How John Fetterman Won ...
Tuesday, November 8, 2022

A measly fine for ranchers who diverted water from a Klamath River tributary

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Cal Matters reports this morning on a $4000 fine that's been proposed for ranchers in far northern California who diverted the water.  ...
Monday, November 7, 2022

In California's central valley, congressional race pits a farmworker's son against a dairy farmer

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Here's an excerpt from the Los Angeles Times story by Alejandra Reyes-Valarde , out of California's 22d congressional district, cove...
Saturday, November 5, 2022

On the importance of Texas's two million rural voters

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Drew Landry, an assistant professor of government at South Plains College in Levelland, Texas, wrote today  for for the Dallas Morning News ...
Friday, November 4, 2022

On Wisconsin's rural vote: Multiple reports suggest bad news for Democrats, who've gone unsupported by national party

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This Politico story out of Wisconsin's 3d district is a sobering one for Democrats , suggesting that the open seat, previously held by D...
Thursday, November 3, 2022

Electric school buses on their way to rural America

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I've been contemplating this post for several months and was finally prompted to start writing it when I saw a tweet linking to  this pr...
Wednesday, November 2, 2022

On the pick-up truck as rural relic

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The Washington Post published a  piece yesterday by Paul Waldman, headlined, " The evolving political symbolism of the pick-up truck...
Tuesday, November 1, 2022

On mending the rural-urban rift, from Minnesota

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Starting about two weeks ago, MinnPost , a non-profit news website in Minnesota, published a series of essays/op-eds on the rural-urban divi...
Monday, October 31, 2022

Where white majority is fading, election deniers thrive

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The New York Times reported last week from several places that are not necessarily rural, but which may be exurban, and where politicians ...
Sunday, October 30, 2022

Valuing rural schools and their communities

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Bob Douchette writes of the value of rural schools--and rural communities--in the Tulsa World .  His essay also addresses how these institut...
Saturday, October 29, 2022

How election denial may lead to a reversion to paper ballots, beginning in rural America

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The Washington Post reported yesterday on an election denial scheme flourishing in rural Nevada, in Nye County, population 51,591 , but cov...