Tuesday, February 27, 2024

Krugman strikes again, this time calling out the "whiteness" of an alleged "rural rage"

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Paul Krugman wrote yesterday in the New York Times under the headline, " The Mystery of White Rage. "  His column seems to have b...
Sunday, February 25, 2024

More from The Rural Voter (Jacobs and Shea), this time from Politico Nightly

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Politico Nightly recently featured a short interview with Nicholas Jacobs and Daniel Shea, authors of The Rural Voter (2023). I've earl...
Thursday, February 22, 2024

Literary Ruralism (Part XLV): Heather Cox Richardson's Democracy Awakening

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Here's an excerpt from Heather Cox Richardson's 2023 book Democracy Awakening:  Notes on the State of America , about rural and urba...
Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Humboldt County, California judge under fire for ethics violations as election looms

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The headline from   The Press Democrat (of Sonoma County, California but covering the north coast up through Humboldt), is "Humboldt C...
Monday, February 19, 2024

Billing indigent defendants for provision of constitutionally provided legal counsel

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Lauren Gill and Weihua Li reported last week for the Marshall Project  under the headline, "If You Can’t Afford an Attorney, One Will B...
Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Biden's investments in rural America

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Farah Stockman wrote in the New York Times blog yesterday about the Biden administration's investment in rural America.   Frustration i...
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Monday, February 12, 2024

Supplementing rural justice systems to level the playing field

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The Minneapolis Star-Tribune published this editorial a year ago, but I just came across it and found it worthy of note.  The headline is ...
Thursday, February 8, 2024

Literary Ruralism (XLIV): Merge Left: Fusing Race and Class, Winning Elections and Saving America

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In his 2019 book, Merge Left: Fusing Race and Class, Winning Elections, and Saving America , Professor Ian Haney Lopez explores the best mes...
Wednesday, February 7, 2024

Extraordinary story of French farmer behind recent blockade in Southern France

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Catherine Porter reported for the New York Times  last week under the headline, " The Farmers' Protests Have Become a Wildfire.  He...
Tuesday, February 6, 2024

Rural(ish) straight white guy becomes California senate's speaker pro tem

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Mackenzie Mays brings us this feature of Mike McGuire (D-Healdsburg) in yesterday's  Los Angeles Times .  Here's the lede:  On a fo...
Monday, February 5, 2024

Racism in rural Vermont: 1890s

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Vermont Public published a great story a couple of weeks ago regarding the 1890 disappearance of a Black preacher, John Harrison, in Norwich...