Blog Roll

National

  • Al Cross covers the waterfront, the statehouses, more, from the Institute for Rural Journalism

  • Brian Depew and Steph Carsen cover politics, farm policy, and lots more from Nebraska (and sometimes D.C.).

  • Friday roundup of news on rural communities, development and agriculture drawn from four regional offices of the Council of State Governments

  • A reference room and news service of rural health, designed to help small communities develop top quality health care

  • For rural business owners, by Becky McCray and other Okie entrepreneurs

  • The latest on Yonder schools -- consolidation debates, taxes, teacher housing, and lots more

  • Not all farmers have silver hair --yet -- but they're earning every strand

  • News & views by Native American students

  • Ken Cook on farm policy and food safety, tracks farm subsidies to greater San Francisco (?)

  • Your guide to wigwam motels, the final resting place of Andy the Footless Goose, and more

Northeast

  • Lorianne DiSabato finds the genius in oatmeal, Venetian blinds and much more, from Keene, New Hampshire

  • Commune of Yankee centrists with a thing (two things?) for Bob Dylan and clams

  • A gaggle of Vermonters fly straight at state politics and energy issues

  • Lance Dutson on politics and development (or un-development) across the Pine Tree State

South

  • Pastor Waddey of Cottage Grove, Tennessee, sips sweet tea, visits the nursing home, and grills the candidates on preferred color of pickups (red or green?).

  • "Waddey," pastor of Cottage Grove Baptist Church (Tennessee), quizzes the presidential candidates and discusses family values, fish weight and tractor colors.

  • Wiseacres, culture critics, and engineers of of the Appalachian Renaissance.

  • Supporting Rudy Giuliani and Dwayne Allman (really)

  • Heavy on Arkansas

  • Of politics, education and pale ale controversies in Alabama, by 'lost soul" Dan Roberts

  • Watching out for Appalachia's land and water, and hearing the music

  • Native plants, habitat restoration, and other science snippets from Athens, Georgia

  • The Mississippi Writers Guild cooks up grits and will not flinch from head lice

Midwest

  • Erin Heidelberger focusing on sustainability, practicing permanence on the great plains of South Dakota.

  • A family buckles down to work (and play) on a farmstead in Marshall County, Iowa. Featuring "Thingamajig Thursday' contests to ID tools.

  • Indiana politics as seen by a former insider, Doug Masson of Lafayette

  • Progressive Cornhuskers look at politics and education against a long horizon

  • Environmental issues (and the legal machinery around them) in Northern Indiana

  • Eight Iowa bloggers and journalists breaking news and spelling out the issues

  • Kay Westhues's knockout photographs from in and around Walkerton, Indiana

West