Axios' Northwest Arkansas newsletter led yesterday with the travails of rural hospitals. Here's the scoop: 71% of rural hospitals in Arkansas are running in the financial red, according to a recent report from health care consultancy Chartis. The same is true for half of America's rural hospitals.Why it matters: Millions of Americans, especially those in rural states like Arkansas, rely on local hospitals for emergency and other forms of care.The report also points out: "Within many rural...
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I've always thought the term "reporter" undersells the job of writing the "first rough draft of history," as Washington Post publisher Phil Graham phrased it in 1963. That the word is so simple — and, frankly, humbling — is a reminder to every journalist who steps into the swirl of current events: Our job is to document what we see, hear and experience as accurately as possible, but, in the end, the story is not about us. We are recording the news, not making it. That said, to be a good...
In this week’s Confessions roundup, 23 parents vent about play dates, overstimulation, Mother’s Day, and more.
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This is from Cullen's Substack today, "Iowa's unique sort of rural poverty." Cullen recently traveled to New Orleans and back from northern Iowa (and he did so in an electric Ford pick up truck, no less). Here's a rumination that begins as he passed from northeast Arkansas into southeast Missouri. Coming from relatively prosperous Iowa, I continue to be stunned by the scenes of grinding rural poverty when you get off the freeways and revisit Hwy. 61 or its cousins.Drive the edge of gorgeous...
For Rural Providers – There’s No Place Like Home Much like the yellow brick road Dorothy and friends navigated to find the Wizard of Oz, the path to BEAD has been long and winding. While there’s no wicked witch attempting to derail prospective BEAD applicants, confusing processes and uncertainty Telecompetitor
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The Minnesota State Patrol began its Rural Speed Reduction Project on April 29, and troopers will be participating in the enforcement initiative through Sept. 2.
Here's the link to Statz's latest article, and the abstract follows. The title is "The Scandal of Particularlity: A New Approach to Rural Attorney Shortages and Access to Justice," and it is forthcoming in the South Dakota Law Review: This article adds necessary dimension to prevailing understandings of the rural attorney shortage and proposed solutions to it. These solutions include efforts to recruit and retain rural attorneys; to advance “non-lawyer” practitioners; and to create...
As we walked back to our cars after the party, my ex-boyfriend said, “I have something for you,” and dropped an object into the center of my palm. I unfurled my fingers and was delighted to find a large diamanté cocktail ring. “What’s this?” He grinned. “Isn’t this what you always wanted? For me to give you a big ring?” I laughed. His sense of humor was like kryptonite. We hadn’t been together in five years, but once you’ve had it, funny is hard to forget. “What’s the catch?” I knew there had to...
Erica Etelson, Anthony Flaccavento Putting together a Democratic majority in 2024 requires winning back some portion of the rural working class. The good news is that it can be done. Here’s how.