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By Julie Ardery
Environment | Growth and Development | Health | Politics and Government
03/17/2008
Revised EPA standards show 45 rural counties with health-hazardous levels of ozone. And environmental experts say crops and forests are at even greater risk than people.Growth and Development | Main Street Economics
03/06/2008
The number of self-employed people in rural Ohio is way up but their incomes, relative to wage and salaried workersd, are way down. A new study from Ohio State advocates a close, hard look at what kinds of entrepreneurship really benefit rural communities. 
There are too few doctors nationwide, but lower wages and heavier workloads-- also, more burdensome regulations for foreign-born physicians -- have made the shortages in rural communities dire.
To the small towns of Northeast Texas, Cambodian families bring a sticky niche business. Set your alarm and work up an appetite.
Turnout was high in Tuesday's Florida primary. In some rural counties, the ballots cast more than doubled the number from four years ago. 
John Edwards and Mitt Romney picked up the early endorsements from U.S. congressional representatives in the most rural districts, but since the first primaries, rural leaders are leaning in new directions.
With a new spotlight on Nevada, in its first early caucus, Clinton brings out the Las Vegas vote to win; Romney sweeps up the GOP delegates.
Are feral pigs private property, an invasive species or wildlife? The latter, says Pennsylvania's Supreme Court. Enthusiastic hog hunters must wait for boar season, whenever that may be.
Western Kentucky horse trader and bachelor Henry Wooldridge was thinking ahead. He arranged to spend eternity in good, familial company.
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