Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Recognizing the barrier of distance, transportation in high school vocational training programs

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Kavitha Cardoza reported for the  Washington Post  a few days ago on an innovative apprenticeship program in Elkhart, Indiana.  An excerpt ...
Sunday, July 6, 2025

Risks to rural hospitals grab big headlines in Arkansas

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The lead story in today's Arkansas Democrat-Gazette is about the perils that Trump's "One Big, Beautiful Bill Act" poses ...

Deficits in warning systems exacerbate losses as historic floods strike Texas rural hill country

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Dozens, including a number of children, were killed on July 4 by a flash flood in central Texas' hill country, primarily due to flooding...
Thursday, July 3, 2025

Wisconsin Supreme Court details rural lawyer shortage in matter where criminal trial delayed 46 months

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court decided State v. Ramirez last week, a matter about a criminal defendant who experienced a 46-month delay in bei...
Tuesday, July 1, 2025

"Rural" all over the news as Senate passes "Big Beautiful Bill" that will undermine rural services, especially health care

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Analysis of what Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" would do to rural health care has been in the news for several weeks, and it sta...

iPhone factory rises in rural India. Does it provide rural development lessons for the United States?

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Alex Travelli and Hari Kumar report from Devanahalli, India in yesterday's New York Times on the pending opening of an iPhone factory ...
Saturday, June 28, 2025

Op-ed by Alaska legislators decries likely effect of "Big Beautiful Bill, "especially in rural areas

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Bryce Edgmon and Cathy Giessel of the Alaska legislature have published an op-ed in today's New York Times, " Our State Cannot Sur...
Thursday, June 26, 2025

Supreme Court decision on Planned Parenthood and Medicaid will undermine rural health

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The U.S. Supreme Court today ruled (quoting the Associated Press ) that  States can block the country’s biggest abortion provider, Planned P...
Wednesday, June 25, 2025

A distinctive angle on shifting rural livelihooods

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Marketplace (American Public Media) reported this week on the impact of the rising price of silver on the livelihoods of indigenous silvers...
Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Buffalo National River watershed finally gets permanent protection from industrial agriculture

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I've written a great, great deal about the Buffalo National River over the years, including when a hog CAFO was sited on the banks of on...
Monday, June 23, 2025

Black lung spreads to younger miners due to complications from silica

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Kate Morgan reports from the New York Times from a trip across Appalachia to learn about black lung disease's newest manifestation, wh...