Al Cross covers the waterfront, the statehouses, more, from the Institute for Rural Journalism
Friday, November 20, 2009
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National
Based in rural Minnesota but looking globally, (natch), the Blandin Foundation blogs on the latest trends in rural broadband access, use, funding, and training.
A compendium of food-growers' blogs from East Africa, Australia, Europe, and all over the U.S. Plow on!
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
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
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
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.
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
West
Landscape, water, local culture, & development issues in California's Sierra Nevada.
"The flavor" -- textures and sights, too-- of Prescott, Arizona, "and the surrounding outback," by Granny J
Ranching, wildlife reckoning, and "combatting the urban tumbleweed" -- from High Country News

