February 3, 2017 Millard County Utah: A case study in urban ‘values’ infringing on rural property rights Although Millard County is the literal definition of rural, “urban” values increasingly seem to dominate local thought processes and resulting public policy. Despite lip…
January 18, 2017 Letter: Trump Ag Secretary critical to future of America’s small farmers Meanwhile, we know that 80% of the Farm Bill goes to SNAP and only 15% is actually paid to farmers in the form of…
January 13, 2017 Animal rights groups fight policies necessary to remedy wild horse disaster An estimated 55,000 wild horses roamed public U.S. rangelands as of March of last year, more than double the federally advised number. As natural…
January 12, 2017 The Rural vs Urban Divide: Why Trump took 2016 Who are these rural, red-county people who brought Mr. Trump into power? I’m a native Iowan and reporter in rural Marion County, Iowa. I…
January 7, 2017 Progressive elites seek to ‘socially engineer’ rural Americans out of existence Consider the case of the late John Rapanos, a hard-working, patriotic Michigan developer who, as the son of Greek immigrants, was living the American…
January 6, 2017 Feds use environmental law to ramp up war on rural America That’s what happens, for instance, when the EPA threatens landowners with $37,500 per day in fines ($1 mil per month) for actions as innocuous…
November 30, 2016 Mainstream media fiddle as the South burns Because it’s not happening in New York or D.C. or Los Angeles, it doesn’t really count as news. When a few snowflakes begin to…
November 29, 2016 Election 2016: A Referendum on Rural Rights in America Rural Americans came to the polls in unheralded, unpredicted numbers and they voted for a non-politician, whether they liked him or not. They voted…
November 11, 2016 Will conservative counties in OR, WA join Idaho to create a new state? Residents in eastern Oregon and Washington have discussed breaking away from their more liberal neighbors to form a new state for years, but a…
November 1, 2016 Proposed Cascade-Siskiyou Monument will devastate local communities If this recent attempt moves ahead, it will have devastating effects on the local communities. Also keep in mind that over 50,000 of these…
