Monday, December 30, 2024

On the occasion of Jimmy Carter's death, looking back at his truly rural attachments

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On the occasion of his death, I'm re-upping here every mention of former President Jimmy Carter from Legal Ruralism .  I'll start ho...
Sunday, December 22, 2024

Rural-ish outreach by California Governor?

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Mark Barabak in the Los Angeles Times today  writes under the headline, "Newsom is acting more like a governor should. Will that boost...
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Friday, December 20, 2024

Hakeem Jeffries mentions farmers (!) in comments announcing deal to fund the government

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A bi-partisan deal to finance the federal government was finally agreed late today.  In his announcement of the deal, House Minority Leader ...
Saturday, December 14, 2024

On whether Trump's policies will hurt rural America and ultimately cost him rural support

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Ronald Brownstein wrote yesterday in The Atlantic under the headline, " Trump Is About to Betray His Rural Supporters ."  Of cour...
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Thursday, December 12, 2024

Arkansas bureaucrat (essentially) calls state's rural residents "white trash"

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In early November, the State of Arkansas announced the purchase of 815 acres in rural Franklin County where the Department of Corrections in...
Saturday, December 7, 2024

Location, Location, Location Revisited: More Needs to be Done

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For this post, I am going to revisit a post I made seven years ago in which I discussed the role that law schools can play in alleviating t...
Sunday, December 1, 2024

Frisch reflects on his losses in Colorado's 3d Congressional district

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Adam Frisch is the former Aspen City Council Member who nearly unseated Lauren Bobert in 2022.  In 2024, he lost to a more boring Republican...
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Saturday, November 30, 2024

Some rural voters resist school choice, prioritizing rural schools

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Boone County, Iowa, October 19, 2024 (c) Lisa R. Pruitt 2024 The  Wall Street Journal  reported this week under the headline  " Trump’s...
Tuesday, November 26, 2024

Rural colleges cutting corners--and cutting majors

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The Washington Post reports today from Cleveland, Mississippi, population 11,199 , under the headline, " Rural students’ options shrin...
Monday, November 25, 2024

On America's deadliest occupation: logging

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The New York Times reported a few days ago from southwestern Oregon , with a fair bit of attention to the fact that places where timber job...
Sunday, November 24, 2024

Understanding rural access to justice requires understanding historical economic injustice

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Understanding rural access to justice issues in the rural South can be a bit complicated. As I outlined back in February, many places in the...