Monday, December 8, 2008

Law and Order in the Ozarks (Part XIII): Another crime-free week in Newton County

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All the news on the front page of the November 27, 2008, issue of the Newton County Times is basically good news. Reading it caused me to r...
Saturday, December 6, 2008

North Dakota flourishing in spite of national recession

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Read Monica Davey's report in the New York Times here . An excerpt follows: As the rest of the nation sinks into a 12th grim month of...
Friday, December 5, 2008

There's a rural angle in this story about rising higher education costs. . .

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But as with so many reports in the national media, that angle is not expressed. The headline is attention grabbing: "College May Beco...
Thursday, December 4, 2008

More bad news for non-metropolitan economies as car dealerships fail

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The tough times facing automobile dealerships -- particularly those dealing in American made vehicles-- have been highlighted in news covera...
Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Middlebury College students take a realistic look at challenges facing a small Vermont town

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Read Abby Goodnough's story about Starksboro, Vermont's consultation with Middlebury College students here . Here is an excerpt: L...
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Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Will China be destabilized as "floating population" returns to rural areas?

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Shai Oster reports in the Wall Street Journal today about a new wave of migration in China. In many cases, this migration is taking work...

Montana Supreme Court decrees public access to stream

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Jim Robbins reports in the New York Times on 1 December. Here is the lede: The Montana Supreme Court ruled here recently that the 16-mi...

The latest on broadband for all--including rural places--under an Obama administration

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NPR's Day-to-Day program today featured a story speculating about what the Obama administration's Federal Communications Commission ...
Monday, December 1, 2008

Law and Order in the Ozarks (Part XII): No crime to report this week

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The stories on the front page of the Nov. 20, 2008, issue of the paper do not implicate any criminal justice issues. Indeed, the only margi...
Saturday, November 29, 2008

Rural resorts out West take it on the chin as economy slumps, but locals suffer more

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Kirk Johnson reports in Sunday's New York Times that the Yellowstone Club, a very exclusive resort outside Big Sky, Montana, populatio...
Friday, November 28, 2008

Rurality Then and Now, Here and There (Part V): Women's contributions to food production

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Women's agricultural contributions are a common theme of two items that caught my attention this week. The first is the banner image be...