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10/09/2008
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10/07/2008

Long-hairs, boilermakers and "Christians For Obama" turn out to hear the candidate in Portsmouth, Ohio.
Rick Oswald has tried before to win an election. And lost. But the point of democracy is to run, and so that's what he's doing again.
Both presidential candidates have pledged to improve Internet access and technology training in rural America. Obama advocates legislation to make it happen; McCain trusts the free market to bring it about.
When a West Virginia coal company declared bankruptcy four years ago, throwing hundreds of miners out of work, the whole community changed. Now the mine's reopened with non-union labor. Candidates, come on down! 
Rural commuters, mobile-home dwellers, manufacturers, and fresh food producers are all paying a higher penalty for rising energy costs.
Citing academic rigor and the teaching of moral standards, many rural parents are choosing private schools, even in states without voucher programs.
