Saturday, August 14, 2021

College lecturer arrested for arson in northern California

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Bill Chappell reports for Capital Public Radio under the headline, "A Former College Professor Accused Of Serial Arson Is Denied Bail ...
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Friday, August 13, 2021

Big NYT/Marshall Project/Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting feature on police killings in rural America

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Alysia Santo and R.G. Dunlop report for the Marshall Project and the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting, under the headline, "...

The rural-urban divide in Oregon, and implications for ecotourism and rural development

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Leah Sottile's headline in the High Country News last month was "How a trail in rural Oregon became a target of far-right extremis...
Thursday, August 12, 2021

An optimistic account of rurality, from downeast Maine

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Here's an excerpt from Gigi Georges' recent essay, " What a Rural Corner of America Can Teach Us All About Community and Resili...
Wednesday, August 11, 2021

On the behavior of rural neighbors in the face of the Dixie Fire

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The Dixie Fire is now the second largest in California history, the largest being the August complex fire from last summer.  I've notice...
Tuesday, August 10, 2021

My hometown is (apparently) about to blow up--in a good way

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Newton County Courthouse, Jasper Spring 2016 (c) Lisa R. Pruitt 2016 Sunday's column by Rex Nelson of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette  mak...
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Monday, August 9, 2021

Coronavirus in rural America (Part CXLIV): Sarah Smarsh on vaccine anger and blame

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 In Sunday's  New York Times :  In the spring, I received my Covid-19 vaccination shots from county health workers in an old building on...
Sunday, August 8, 2021

Remembering Greenville, California--and awaiting its rise from the ashes

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Young musicians Downtown Greenville, California, March 2013 I spent several days of the 2012-2013 academic year in Plumas County, California...
Wednesday, August 4, 2021

Child tax credit will have an outsized benefit for rural America

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Greg Sargent of the Washington Post wrote a few days  ago about a new report by the Niskanen Center on the consequences of the new federal c...
Tuesday, August 3, 2021

Rural America in the infrastructure bill

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A  story from Progressive Farmer , by Chris Clayton, features this lede:   USDA's rural watershed and flood prevention program is just o...
Monday, August 2, 2021

FEMA limitations in sparsely populated regions?

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This line from a story in the New York Times today triggered a lot of questions about how FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) works...