Thursday, August 31, 2017
"Small Towns Now Bear the Brunt" of Harvey
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That's part of a headline from today's New York Times , which includes this line (see bold, which reflects my emphasis), which sums ...
Monday, August 28, 2017
California's most rural Assembly member becomes minority leader
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Brian Dahle , the assemblyman represented California's most rural district, Assembly District No. 1, became the chamber's minority l...
Monday, August 21, 2017
On the total eclipse and rural gentrification
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Jackson Hole, Wyoming, August 21, 2017 I've spent the last week or so in the rural West, between Bozeman, Montana and Jackson, Wyomi...
Wednesday, August 16, 2017
Wildfire in the rural West, from Montana to California
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A few weeks ago I heard a short news story on NPR on a Sunday evening about the residents of Missoula, Montana lining up along the roads by...
Monday, August 14, 2017
Poignant tale of a return to Mexico, from rural Iowa
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This is from Jack Healy's NY Times piece, dateline Hampton, Iowa, titled " Stay, Hide or Leave? Hard Choices for Immigrants in t...
Sunday, August 13, 2017
On "barefoot lawyers" (a/k/a paralegals) serving rural India
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The New York Times ran this fascinating little piece last week about Namati, an organization that trains paralegals in rural communities ...
On Sears Roebuck and its demise
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The New York Times has a big feature today on Sears, " The Incredible Shrinking Sears ." Of course, the entity used to be Sears ...
Saturday, August 12, 2017
Eclipse visitors expected to overwhelm pockets of rural America
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Eclipse craze has hit the nation, and in the West, where I live, I'm starting to hear a lot about the impact that eclipse tourism is go...
Space, time and maternal mortality in rural America
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That is the subject of the Wall Street Journal 's latest installment in its series, "One Nation, Divisible." The story by Bet...
Thursday, August 10, 2017
John Ikerd on "Economic Colonialism" in rural America
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John Ikerd , Professor Emeritus of Agricultural Economics at the University of Missouri, delivered a stirring key note address at the 80th A...
Wednesday, August 9, 2017
Trump's trade policies hard on farmers (or at least on agribusiness)
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While some political commentary suggested that many rural Americans were drawn to Donald Trump's candidacy because of his tough stance o...
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