Sunday, August 9, 2020

Agritourism gets a boost in the digital, pandemic age

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 Ellen Barry reported for the New York Times a few days ago out of Peacham, Vermont, population 732 .  The headline is, " In a Wistful...
Saturday, August 8, 2020

Coronavirus in rural America (Part LXXXII): Contact tracing

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I was struck by this NPR story today about which states are most effectively contact tracing--and the fact that five of six were pretty rur...
Friday, August 7, 2020

Black Lives Matter in rural America (Part V): A role for the BLM movement when police kill white folks?

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To draw attention to bad things happening to white people is decidedly out of fashion these days.  To do so risks communicating an " Al...
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Lots of attention to the rural lawyer shortage in the wake of ABA Progarm

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The American Bar Association hosted a program on the rural lawyer shortage --what they call "legal deserts"--a week ago Tuesday, ...
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Thursday, August 6, 2020

Coronavirus in rural America (Part LXXXI): Update from across California

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Here are just a few coronavirus stories out of California in recent weeks.  In fact, one story is nearly two months old and reporting on eve...
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Wednesday, August 5, 2020

Coronavirus in rural America (Part LXXX): "Why we're not surprised by what's happening in Yakima County, Washington"

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This is the second in a two-part series on rural jail responses to the coronavirus pandemic. Both this post and the prior o ne (out of Geor...
Monday, August 3, 2020

Coronavirus in rural America (Part LXXIX): Impoverished Arizona school district struggles with decision to re-open or not

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Eli Saslow reports for  Washington Post from Hayden, Arizona, population 662 , under the headline, "I'm sorry, but it's a fant...
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Sunday, August 2, 2020

Coronavirus in rural America (Part LXXVIII): "Assume the virus is everywhere," Dr. Birx warns rural folks

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Here's what Dr. Deborah Birx said today on the CNN program “State of the Union” about the country being in a “new phase” of the coronavi...
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Saturday, August 1, 2020

Coronavirus in rural America (Part LXXVII): Georgia's rural jails respond to the pandemic

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This is the first in a two-part series on rural jail responses to the coronavirus pandemic.  Both this post and the next one are from schol...
Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Coronavirus in rural America (Part LXXVI): From a town and school in exurban Atlanta

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This story appeared on the front page of today's New York Times , dateline Jefferson, Georgia, population 9,432 .  Richard Fausset repo...
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Monday, July 27, 2020

Coronavirus in rural America (Part LXXV): El Dorado County, California

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Posted at the Apple Bistro, Placerville, California  That's the focus of a story in today's Sacrmaento Bee , headlined " To...