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Dag: 17 november 2020
Soldiers Demolish Residential A Structure In Northern Plains
On: 17 november 2020 By: KhamakarPress
Israeli soldiers invaded, Tuesday, the al-Farisiyya Palestinian Bedouin community in the Northern Plains of the occupied West Bank, and demolished a residential structure.
Human rights activist, Aref Daraghma, stated that the soldiers demolished a residential structure, owned by Raddad Hamed Daraghma.
He added that this is the second time in less than a month that the soldiers demolish the residential stricture under the allegation of being installed without a permit.
Al-Farisiyya is one of the dozens of Bedouin communities in the Northern Plains and other parts of the occupied West Bank that are frequently targeted by the army, especially amidst the ongoing Israeli attempts to annex the Jordan Valley, and to remove Palestinian communities for the benefit of the illegal construction and expansion of its colonies.
Earlier this month, the soldiers invaded Khirbat al-Hamsa village in the Jordan Valley, and demolished it, rendering eleven families of 73 persons, including 41 children, without a shelter.
In a statement after the demolition of the village, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the occupied Palestinian Territory (OCHA-OPT) said:
"So far in 2020, 689 structures have been demolished across the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, more than in any full year since 2016: rendering 869 Palestinians homeless. The lack of Israeli-issued building permits is typically cited as a reason, even though, due to the restrictive and discriminatory planning regime, Palestinians can almost never obtain such permits. Demolitions are a key means of creating an environment designed to coerce Palestinians to leave their homes."
Israel To Demolish A Home, Garden, Near Nablus
Israeli soldiers invaded, Tuesday, Sebastia Palestinian town, north of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, before handing orders for the demolition of a home and its garden, in the western part of the town.
Mohammad Azem, the mayor of Sebastia, said the soldiers stormed the home of Mahmoud as-Sarrawi, before handing him the demolition order.
He added that the soldiers also took videos of the nearby archeological site and its surrounding areas, in the town.
Sebastia is subject to constant Israeli invasions, including when the army accompanies dozens of Israeli colonists into the archaeological area.
These invasions increased after the local council established a new tourism site and raised the Palestinian flag.
On Robert Fisk and the memory of real journalism
By Qassam Muaddi
On the 30th of October, journalism lost Robert Fisk. The Middle East correspondent for "The Independent" British newspaper, who has covered the unfolding history of this region for almost four decades. A reporter who chose to live in Beirut for most of his career because he didn't want to report on the Middle East if couldn't "be there". A notion that is increasingly being forgotten in the journalism of today. In a time when the race to get a picture of an event out, before the event itself has finished taking place, and when the commenting of news from tv studios has become itself the news, Robert Fisk's loss matters for journalism.
For the peoples of the region whose stories he has covered, from Kabul to Baghdad, and from Beirut to Gaza, his loss matters. Not because he spoke their voices or showed their side of their own stories, neither because someone could imagine that he was pro-Iraqi or pro-Palestinian, because he simply was not. But rather because he was a real journalist. One who went after the reality in people's lives, engaged with it, felt it, and made others know it. One who grasped the ugly reality of war, waged from thousands of miles away, and put it right in front of his readers' noses, not to give answers, but rather to raise questions, which is what a journalist is supposed to do. Robert Fisk's death matters because he was that kind of international journalist that people in the Middle East rarely see around anymore.
"We must be partial"
People in the West probably remember his famous interviews with Osama Bin Laden, back in the nineties. In Palestine, however, Fisk is remembered for being one of the first reporters to enter the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila in Lebanon, in the last hours of the massacre, in September of 1982. He was one of the first to call the massacre by its name, and to call out its perpetrators: The fascist Lebanese phalange and their allies, the Israeli army commanded by Ariel Sharon, who sent the phalange men into the camps and stood on the surrounding roof-tops, for three straight days, watching the butchery happen.
He later wrote about the Palestinian refugee woman who he saw laying dead in the front yard of her house, surrounded by the washed clothes she was hanging when she was murdered, and a red stream of fresh blood coming out of the back of her head, crossing the yard. Robert Fisk wrote that night, in his own words; "with a freedom of anger and passion I never felt before". He even went on to say that the events of Sabra and Shatila changed his own way of writing. "We should be passionate," he said repeatedly in his lectures; "we should be partial and denounce criminals when we see them".
Bodies of Palestinian refugees in the streets of Sabra and Shatila refugee camp after the Israeli-backed massacre was carried out
Journalism and Power
This understanding of journalism led Robert Fisk to criticize mainstream media in the West, especially when reporting on the Middle East. Fisk referred to what he called "the osmotic parasitic relationship between American journalism and Power. The need to be close, to have contact, to be In on the story" as he regularly explained. This slipping of journalists, further away from the real stories of people impacted by war, and closer to the decision makers, made it easier for governments to sell war to their citizens as something easy. Some kind of "bloodless sand-pit" as Fisk described it. And it also made it easier for people to buy into it.
With such a way of reporting, those in power will rarely be held accountable for their decisions, when they cause death and destruction upon peoples living thousands of miles from their borders. But what is more dangerous is that their political rhetoric, their language, their terminology and their narrative about the places they engage in, will have a monopolized access to the language of reporting. This means that the narrative of those in power will be presented to the public, through the media, as the uncontested, objective facts. Especially when this media presents itself as objective. "Look at the sourcing in this story" Robert Fisk pointed out in one of his lectures in the Georgetown school in Qatar in 2010, referring to an LA Times article dealing with the war in Iraq, "US officials said, said one US justice department counter-terrorism official, officials say, US authorities said, several US officials said …" he went on quoting the sourcing of the article, before concluding; "If this is journalism, ladies and gentlemen, I'm out of work. Why don't just call the LA Times: 'US officials said'? "
The impact of this way of making news was often described by Robert Fisk as "lethal", and it is. The lethal impact of this toxic relationship between mainstream journalism and Power is no less than the falsification of reality, and, on the long-run, the falsification of history. How else, if not, did the American media come to call the Israeli illegal, colonial, apartheid settlements built on stolen Palestinian land "Jewish neighborhoods"? or to call the West Bank, Eastern Jerusalem and Gaza, which are, by all international law standards, occupied; "disputed territories"?
But on the ground, the impact is even more lethal. It is the continuation of such inhumane realities without significant citizen challenge. As long as Americans are told that the blowing of Afghan children up into pieces with 200 pound-bombs is "cirurgical strikes", they will never tell their government loud-enough to stop it. As long as they are told that the 26-feet-tall militarized wall that turns a Palestinian 6th grader's walk to school into a prison-break is a "security fence", they will continue to fund it with their tax-money without questioning. Robert Fisk did call things by their names, and he did strive to keep his work free from capture by the Power's narrative.
In his book "The Great War For Civilization", Robert Fisk wrote: "After the Allied victory of 1918, at the end of my father's war, the victors divided up the lands of their former enemies. In the space of just seventeen months, they created the borders of Northern Ireland, Yugoslavia and most of the Middle East. And I have spent my entire career—in Belfast and Sarajevo, in Beirut and Baghdad—watching the people within those borders burn."
Robert Fisk in 2001 after being beaten while reporting along Afghanistan's border with Pakistan
It was perhaps then, when those borders were created, that the peoples within them lost their voice, and that their story began to be written by somebody else. And at some point along the way, more and more journalists also gave up on reality, confined themselves to borders and sold their pens out to power. Robert Fisk was one of those international reporters who didn't. One who went beyond the borders created by colonial powers, and took upon himself the task of showing the story of these peoples as they live it. He also encouraged journalists belonging to these peoples to raise their voices and tell their people's stories from within, as he did with many of his Palestinian colleagues in Gaza.
Today, a new generation of journalists in the Arab world and elsewhere are using the internet to get our own narrative out to the world, and challenge the distortion of our realities by the powerful, and by the lazy journalism reporters orbiting them. And as we, journalists of the burning peoples, are more aware than ever of the fact that no body, not even Robert Fisk, could tell our story with our own words, as we live it, and that less and less international reporters are willing even to try, we still have a thought to give out to the life and legacy of Robert Fisk. Not because he was a pro-Palestinian or a pro-Iraqi, because he was not. But rather because he was a real journalist. That kind of international journalists that we, in the Middle East, rarely see around anymore.
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Austrian police interrogates Palestinians and Arabs over alleged ties to political Islam
"Do you know Yahya Ayyash and Yasser Arafat?", was one of the questions during interrogations
Vienna (QNN)- Austrian police started a campaign against Muslims, arresting 70 people last week as part of the government's "war on Islamism" in the country.
The Austrian police claimed it targeted headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas, which were raising funds for both political groups.
In the same context, refugee charity associations told QNN that nearly 70 workers were arrested by the police and interrogated regarding their work for refugees.
They added that those who were interrogated were asked about the Palestinian cause, especially Hamas movement, and their opinions about the occupation state.
"Some questions about beliefs have been randomly mixed with others about the Palestinian cause… do you have native Austrian friends? do you wake your children up for Fajr prayer? do you know Yahya Ayyash?", the source said.
"The police asked them if they knew Yahya Ayyash or Yasser Arafat although that has nothing to do with the financing of terrorism."
Most of those, whose houses were raided, were Egyptians, in addition to some Syrians and Palestinians, said the sources. Some raids were harsh, breaking the doors and using canines. The police also tried to interrogate some children to know the places where the father hides his money.
Police also seized smartphones, documents, computers and large sums of cash, but no weapons or explosives, reported the Times. Austrian media said €25 million have been confiscated from those, who were arrested. That has not been yet confirmed by the prosecutor.
The operation comes after reports of a visit by senior officials in the Egyptian intelligence three weeks ago. It also comes as part of Austria's "war on Islamism", called for by Chancellor Sebastian Kurz.
Kurz, at the time, told German newspaper Die Welt: "Islamist extremism wants to divide our society. This hatred should not be given space. The enemy are extremists and terrorists, not immigrants. There must be no tolerance of intolerance."
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Israeli raid into Qalandiya leaving injuries
Occupied Jerusalem (QNN)- Local sources said a Palestinian young man was shot with a rubber-coated metal bullet in his eye during an Israeli raid into Qalandiya refugee camp in North Jerusalem today.
Another young man was reportedly shot in his leg during confrontations in the camp.
The sources added that Israeli forces intensively used tear gas in the camp, causing suffocation cases among children and elderlies.
In the same vein, an Israeli soldier was hit with stones during the raid.
The Israeli army also stormed the headquarters of the popular committee as well as several shops in the camp during the raid.
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Israeli military infiltrates Gaza border, raze lands
Two million Palestinians live the Gaza Strip have been subjected to a punishing and crippling Israeli blockade for 14 years and repeated onslaughts that have heavily damaged much of the enclave's infrastructure
Israeli occupation forces infiltrated on Tuesday morning Gaza's border to the east of Khan Younis city, in the southern coastal enclave and razed farmlands.
He said that the military vehicles and bulldozers advanced several dozens of meters to the east of the city, leveled borderline farmlands and erected earth mounds while intermittently opening fire at the site.
Fourteen years following the Israeli "disengagement" from Gaza, Israel has not actually disengaged from Gaza; it still maintains control of its land borders, access to the sea and airspace.
Two million Palestinians live the Gaza Strip have been subjected to a punishing and crippling Israeli blockade for 14 years and repeated onslaughts that have heavily damaged much of the enclave's infrastructure.
Gaza's 2-million population remains under "remote control" occupation and a strict siege, which has destroyed the local economy, strangled Palestinian livelihoods, plunged them into unprecedented rates of unemployment and poverty, and cut off from the rest of the occupied Palestinian territories and the wider world.
Gaza remains occupied territory, having no control over its borders, territorial waters or airspace. Meanwhile, Israel upholds very few of its responsibilities as the occupying power, failing to provide for the basic needs of Palestinian civilians living in the territory.
Every two in three Palestinians in Gaza is a refugee from lands inside what is now Israel. That government forbids them from exercising their right to return as enshrined in international law because they are not Jews.
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Settlers return to illegal West Bank settlement evacuated in 2005
Israeli Jewish MK tweeted on the issue: 'The resumption of settlement in Sa-Nur is a necessary moral, Zionist and security step'
More than 20 Israeli Jewish families today returned to Sa-Nur settlement in the northern occupied West Bank, which was evacuated in 2005.
The settlers who lived in the illegal Sa-Nur and Homesh settlements entered the area in the early hours of the morning without coordination with the Israeli army, the Times of Israel said, in protest against the evacuation of the settlements.
According to the Israeli newspaper, the settlers are protesting the evacuation of the settlements –Sa-Nur, Homesh along with two other settlements in the occupied West Bank, which were evacuated along with Jewish settlements in Gaza in 2005.
The paper reported far-right Yamina MK Bezalel Smotrich writing on Twitter: "The resumption of settlement in Sa-Nur is a necessary moral, Zionist and security step."
Smotrich called on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to allow the Jewish families to stay. "There was no logical reason to destroy the settlement in the first place and there is no logical reason not to allow its reestablishment," he wrote.
Yossi Dagan, the head of the West Bank Settlement Council, praised the return to the settlement, reportedly saying: "It is the right thing to do after it is clear that there is no person left in the State of Israel who believes that this displacement was correct."
Despite the fact that staying in these settlements is illegal under Israel's disengagement law, the occupation army has been preventing Palestinians from entering them.
Syria asks returning Palestine refugees to prove property ownership in Yarmouk
Palestinian refugees have started to apply to return to Yarmouk refugee camp, but they are facing difficult conditions ahead of their return, Quds Press reported yesterday.
In addition to tackling unsafe infrastructure, returnees have been asked to provide proof of property ownership, as well as historic electricity, water, and telephone bills.
Speaking to Quds Press, Abu-Ziyad, a Palestinian refugee, said: "These are difficult conditions because we were displaced from the camp nine years ago."
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Damascus governorate started to receive applications from the returnees on Tuesday, stating that anyone who wants to return to the refugee camp should provide proof that their homes are safe for them to return to, and ownership paperwork, in addition to other certificates.
The Palestinian refugees said that it is difficult to meet these conditions because most of the houses were partially or completely destroyed and many of the official documents were damaged.
Read More: Palestine hopeful about US President-elect Biden
However, lawyer Noureddine Salman called for the refugees to "immediately" start applying to return to the camp in order to reinforce their rights.
Salman was reported by Quds Press as calling for the refugees not to deal with the offers posted on Facebook and other social media platforms to buy their homes, stressing that "they are being made by opportunists."
President of Palestinian Lawyers' Union in Syria, and the legal advisor to the General Commission for Palestinian Arab Refugees, Tariq Murra, told Quds Press that the commission is ready to issue copies of ownership proofs and other needed documents.
He said that the water and sewage networks are working, but the electricity grid is not working because of the damage caused by the war.
Qatar: Normalisation with Israel undermines Palestinian statehood
Sheikh Mohammed said division was not in the interest of concerted Arab efforts to get the Israelis to negotiate with the Palestinians
Qatar's Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani has said Arab states that establish ties with Israel undermine efforts for Palestinian statehood.
In recent months, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain and Sudan agreed to formal relations in deals brokered by United States President Donald Trump's administration.
The Palestinians have denounced these agreements as a "stab in the back" and a betrayal of their cause. They fear the moves by Bahrain and the UAE will weaken a long-standing pan-Arab position.
Read More: Normalisation prompts Israel to build new alliances
The UAE, Bahrain and Sudan broke with this position, which had demanded Israeli withdrawal from already illegally occupied territory and the acceptance of Palestinian statehood in return for normal relations with Arab countries.
"I think it's better to have a united [Arab] front to put the interests of the Palestinians [first] to end the [Israeli] occupation," Sheikh Mohammed told the online Global Security Forum on Monday.
Read More: Zionism threatens all Arab states, normalisation is part of the plot
He said that division was not in the interest of concerted Arab efforts to get the Israelis to negotiate with the Palestinians and resolve the decades-long conflict.
However, for the states who established ties, "it is up to them at the end of the day to decide what is best for their countries", he said.
UAE officials have said the Gulf state remains committed to Palestinian statehood, and that its deal with Israel had stopped further annexation of lands that Palestinians seek for a state.
Until this year, Israel had only current formal relations with just two Arab states – its neighbours Egypt and Jordan – established under peace deals reached decades ago. US and Israeli officials have said more Arab states could soon follow after the recent deals.
Sheikh Mohammed said Doha maintains some relations with Israel, though only on matters concerning the Palestinians, such as humanitarian needs or development projects.
Qatar supports a two-state solution with occupied East Jerusalem as the capital of a Palestinian state, a stance the foreign minister reiterated.
Gulf crisis
Referring to a dispute that erupted in 2017 when the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Egypt severed diplomatic and transport ties with Qatar and imposed a land, air and sea blockade against the country, Sheikh Mohammed said there are no winners in the crisis.
"We are hopeful that this will end at any moment and what we need right now is to have serious engagement in a good faither with other countries – and this is what Qatar is prepared to do," he told the Forum. "There is no winner out of this crisis and all of us are losing," he added.
The four countries accused Qatar of supporting "terrorism", an allegation Doha has vehemently and repeatedly denied.
In a related address at the Forum, Trump's national security adviser said the first step to solving the crisis was to allow planes to fly over Saudi and Bahraini airspace.
"We'd like to get that rift solved," said Robert O'Brien, adding that he would like to see permission for flights granted within the next 70 days, before a transition of office in the US and noting, "I think there's a possibility for it."
Israeli soldiers detain Palestinian woman at military checkpoint
Israeli occupation soldiers detained a Palestinian woman at a military checkpoint in the occupied West Bank, according to D.O.P correspondent.
The Palestinian lady was among 16 other Palestinians detained last night by the occupation forces, he said.
The occupation soldiers at Qalandia checkpoint, north of occupied Jerusalem, opened fire to capture the lady, who they claim was walking in a lane designated for cars only.
Read More: Israeli occupation forces kill Palestinian near major West Bank checkpoint
The soldiers immediately closed the checkpoint following the arrest interrupting traffic for a period before reopening it.
Qalandia is the largest Israeli checkpoint in the occupied territories, where Palestinian commuters are forced to go through humiliating inspection as they go about their daily lives.
Read More: Israeli forces shoot three Palestinians near Jenin-district checkpoint
Thousands of Palestinians from across the occupied West Bank have to go through the crowded checkpoint to enter Jerusalem or go to work in Israel, waiting for hours each time they leave or return.
Palestinian human rights groups have long accused Israeli occupation forces of using excessive force against Palestinians.
Meanwhile, PPS added that Israeli soldiers detained seven Palestinians from the Hebron district in the south of the West Bank, including a 16-year-old boy from Arroub refugee camp, an 18-year-old youth from Beit Ummar, and two brothers from Sair.
The soldiers also detained two other Palestinians from the village of Kubar in the Ramallah district and six more from various East Jerusalem neighbourhoods.
The Israeli army carries out frequent arrest campaigns across the West Bank, including occupied East Jerusalem, on the pretext of searching for "wanted" Palestinians. Children living in occupied East Jerusalem are the most targeted, the PPS said. Many apparently face arrest at least once a month.
The PPS recorded the arrest of more than 3,000 Palestinians by Israel from the beginning of this year to the end of August.
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Teams: Round 21, Sydney Swans vs Fremantle Dockers, Saturday August 12th
By Justin Mitchell | 10 August 2017 | 2 min read
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For the third time this season, the Swans have announced an unchanged line up, with Sam Naismith ruled out early in the day, and captain Josh Kennedy failing to prove his fitness during the main session.
Cursed as the Swans are with unchanged lineups, they're risking the ire of the football gods, with more than a years' worth of football since the Swans actually played the same team in consecutive weeks, with late changes twice plaguing the Swans this season.
While the build-up for Kennedy's return was significant, with players after the Geelong victory speaking about how Josh had trained Friday and felt OK, he ultimately failed to train with the main group, and ended his chances of a recall.
He misses his 3rd game of the season, and just his sixth since he became a Swan, proving a mainstay of the team ever since his red and white debut.
While he showed no signs of discomfort, [coach John Longmire said that he'd rather err on the side of caution] with his captain.
"Obviously, a player we would have liked to have come back into the side is Josh Kennedy, but he just didn't quite get up," Longmire said.
"We expect him to play next week. He ran almost at full pace but didn't quite get there. We didn't want to keep pushing him.
"He didn't feel it, it felt really good, but we sat down with the medical staff and Josh himself and thought whilst we're desperate to get him back into the team as quick as we can, the risk was too great."
Kennedy dominated the last clash between the two teams, picking up 3 Brownlow votes and 45 disposals in their 90-point victory at Domain Stadium.
His absence means a heavier reliance on Luke Parker and Dan Hannebery to shoulder the bulk of the clearance work, against the likes of Nat Fyfe and Lachie Neale.
"It was really important to share the load, across all of our players, we've bought on some young midfielders this year, and over the last few years, and they're getting more exposure (to senior football)," Longmire added.
"They'll get a big challenge this week as Fremantle's midfield is experienced, full of quality and really hard, a good mix of inside and outside players, so we'll have a real challenge ahead of us but we're looking forward to it."
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Enjoy a special presentation by one of the world's foremost calligraphers, Donald Jackson, artistic director of The Saint John's Bible and senior scribe to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth's Crown Office at the House of Lords.
"Donald Jackson: Illuminating the Word," will be held on Monday, Nov. 7, at 6 pm, at the Lensic Performing Arts Center in downtown Santa Fe. Tickets are $15. A private reception following is $50. Tickets are available at www.ticketssantafe.org or (505) 988-1234.
Illuminating the Word: The Saint John's Bible, on exhibit at the New Mexico History Museum through April 7, represents Jackson's crowning achievement—the fulfillment of a goal he began nurturing as a young boy. Jackson oversaw a team of scribes who handwrote and illuminated every page of the Bible on behalf of the Benedictine monks at Saint John's University in Collegeville, Minn. The project was completed this fall; after the History Museum's exhibition of pages from the Wisdom Books and Prophets volumes of the work, the pages will be bound and placed in the care of the monastery.
Download high-resolution images of Donald Jackson and of pieces from the exhibition by clicking on "Go to related media" at the top left of this page.
Jackson began developing sketches that led to the project while at a Ghost Ranch workshop in northern New Mexico. In 1996, he took to Saint John's Abbey an idea about collaborating on a millennium-worthy project, which was officially commissioned in 1998. By March 8, 2000, Jackson was able to pen the project's first words on a page of vellum: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, the Word was God ..." On May 9, 2011, he wrote the final word, "Amen." The pages were publicly unveiled in September.
"Now that I have inscribed the final Amen," Jackson said in a prepared statement for the event, "I realise that over the long years of this task, a boyhood dream, I have gradually absorbed an enduring conviction of the pin-sharp relevance of these ancient Biblical Texts to the past, present and the future of our personal and public life and experience. These texts have a life of their own and their life is a mirror of the human spirit and experience."
Jackson created a script specifically for the project that was then learned by each of the scribes who worked on it. Mixing techniques used in creating ancient illuminated manuscripts with the modern technology of computers to plan the layout, the work reveals a modern interpretation of biblical traditions. Viewers will spy chain-link fencing, DNA models, people of many races, and imagery from a variety of faiths.
At the age of 20, Jackson was appointed a visiting lecturer at the Camberwell College of Art in London. Within six years, he was appointed a scribe to the Crown Office at the House of Lords. As a scribe to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, he was responsible for the creation of official state documents and, in 1985, was decorated by the Queen with the Medal of The Royal Victorian Order, which is awarded for personal service to the sovereign. Jackson is an elected fellow and past chairman of the Society of Scribes and Illuminators and, in 1997, was named master of the 600-year-old Guild of Scriveners of the city of London. He is the author of The Story of Writing and has trained and encouraged many of America's top calligraphers.
In Monmouth, Wales, Donald and Mabel Jackson live in a converted village hall—a rambling building, beautiful against the hills that surround it. Across a small road, the "schoolroom," a converted mechanic's shed, was renovated into a scriptorium, full of natural light. From there, Jackson oversaw The Saint John's Bible with a team of skilled scribes, some who worked there and others who took pages of vellum back to their own studios.
Their finished project is the first handcrafted Bible commissioned by a Benedictine abbey in more than 500 years. Handwritten and illuminated on calfskin vellum using quills, hand-ground pigments, natural inks, and gold-leaf gild, the Bible contains more than 160 illuminations and countless text treatments and marginalia in seven distinct books: Pentateuch, Historical Books, Psalms, Wisdom Books, Prophets, Gospels and Acts, and Letters and Revelation. For more information on the project, go to http://www.saintjohnsbible.org/.
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Health-care providers in rural counties are more likely to prescribe opioids; CDC sees a link to higher opioid deaths
Primary health-care providers in rural counties are much more likely to prescribe opioids than their suburban and urban counterparts, and that correlates to a higher incidence of opioid-related deaths, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's latest Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
Researchers analyzed data from January 2014 to March 2017, dividing data into six categories of population density. All six population level areas saw a substantial decline in opioid prescriptions over the studied time period, but the more rural a county was, the higher its opioid prescription rate across the board. Fourteen of the 15 counties with the highest opioid prescription rates were rural, the report says. Read the report here.
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Most 2019 Report for America grant winners announced; many will focus on rural areas and issues
The nonprofit journalism funder Report for America has announced 40 winners of its 2019 newsroom grants. The grants will cover half the salaries for 50 emerging journalists to report on under-covered topics in communities across the country. The winning newsrooms span 26 states and Puerto Rico, and include nonprofits, daily and weekly newspapers, and public radio stations. The grant application deadline has been extended to February 8, so another five to 10 newsroom winners will be announced in the coming weeks, supporting another 10 reporter positions.
Here are a few winners that pitched projects with a rural angle:
Buffalo Bulletin in Wyoming: the energy production industry in Johnson County
Charleston Gazette-Mail: poverty in southern West Virginia
Chico Enterprise-Record and Ukiah Daily Journal in California: wildfire recovery in Northern California
Desert Sun, Palm Springs, Calif.: Native American issues in the Coachella Valley
KUER-FM in Utah: two reporters, one focusing on Native American populations in southern Utah and the other on Washington County, location of Zion National Park
Lexington Herald-Leader in Kentucky: health care in Appalachian Kentucky
Malheur Enterprise, Vale, Oregon: Latinx issues in rural Oregon
News & Observer in Raleigh: watchdog reporting on Hurricane Florence recovery
Spokesman-Review in Spokane: public health in Eastern Washington
The Sun-Gazette, Exeter, Calif.: agriculture in the San Joaquin Valley
West Virginia Public Broadcasting: state government's effect on southern West Virginia
Report for America will also renew some reporters' 2018 contracts in at least eight newsrooms. Here are those with rural resonance:
Victoria Advocate in Texas: rural public health (Ciara McCarthy)
Mississippi Today: criminal justice and photography (Michelle Liu and Eric Shelton)
Mississippi Public Broadcasting: Mississippi Delta (Alexandra Watts)
Lexington Herald-Leader: Eastern Kentucky (Will Wright)
Charleston Gazette-Mail: southern coalfield of West Virginia (Caity Coyne)
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America needs more midwives, especially in rural areas, say the editors of Scientific American magazine
America needs more midwives, especially in rural areas where it's hard for pregnant women to access hospital care, write the editors of Scientific American magazine.
American maternity care is in bad shape: "Despite the astronomical sums that the U.S. spends on maternity care, mortality rates for women and infants are significantly higher in America than in other wealthy countries," they write. "Moreover, the rate of cesarean sections is exceedingly high at 32 percent — the World Health Organization considers the ideal rate to be around 10 percent — and 13 percent of women report feeling pressured by their providers to have the procedure."
Midwife care is at least as common as obstetrician care in many other developed countries, but in the U.S. only 8 percent of births are attended by midwives. That makes little sense, the editors argue, since certified American midwives must have an accredited graduate degree and at least two years of training, making them plenty qualified to care for low-risk births.
So why aren't midwives more popular in the U.S.? "The roots of America's aversion to midwifery go back to the late 1800s, when the advent of germ theory and anesthesia reduced much of the danger and discomfort associated with childbirth," the editors write. "The benefits of these technologies brought doctors to the forefront of maternity care and pushed midwives aside. Obstetricians helped to bar midwives from practicing in hospitals, which were now considered the safest birth settings. By the early 1960s midwifery was virtually obsolete."
Midwifery has gained a little ground since then, but some states still don't recognize them as qualified practitioners or limit what they're allowed to do. Midwives must be fully embraced by state governments, insurance companies and the medical community to ensure pregnant women can routinely and affordably access such care, the editors write.
Labels: childbirth, health insurance, medicine, pregnancy, rural health, rural-urban disparities, women
West Virginia native 'pleasantly surprised' by Fallout 76 depiction of her home state
Politicians, writers, journalists, and pop culture often reduce the complex realities of Appalachia to a few tired stereotypes and tropes, so West Virginia native Sarah Einstein said she wasn't expecting much better from the recently-released video game Fallout 76, which takes place in a post-apocalyptic West Virginia.
Instead, Einstein was "pleasantly surprised" that Bethesda Game Studios mostly got it right, she writes for Rewire News. Bethesda's design director said in a recent interview that he hated "redneck post-apocalyptic" cliches and felt it was important not to fall into that trap when depicting West Virginia.
"The careful work that went into realizing this mandate can be seen throughout the game. As a player, you enter the game through Vault 76—a fallout shelter meant to house people through the toxic years—and find yourself in a wooded area just outside of Flatwoods," Einstein writes. "And the thing is, these are the right woods, with the right trees, the right bird songs, with rhododendron and fern. It feels like home. The game's recorded voices have a variety of accents, from the deep drawl of the middle counties to the clipped consonants of a non-native speaker, but all of them feel authentic and, except for a few robot characters clearly programmed to be 'down homey,' none seem overdone."
Even the nuclear mutants encountered by characters are a neat bit of symbolism, and "are the direct result of outside corporate interests exploiting the people and environment of the state—and while this is a constant throughout the Fallout franchise, it feels especially apt in a game set in West Virginia," Einstein writes.
Labels: gaming, rural image, stereotypes
Apply for $8,000 education-reporting fellowships by Feb. 15
The Education Writers Association is inviting journalists to apply for its 2019 reporting fellowships to cover issues "focused on both the challenges and potential solutions to enhancing educational equity at the K-12 and higher education levels." Each fellow receives $8,000 for their project as well as other assistance. The application deadline is Feb. 15. Click here for more information.
The association is particularly interested in stories that address these topics:
The challenges facing low-income students in accessing higher education, and efforts to expand their opportunities.
Improving postsecondary education, with a focus on better serving disadvantaged students, as well as on under-resourced higher education institutions.
Increasing access to, and the quality of, STEM learning in higher education.
Improving the quality of teachers and school leaders (preparation, recruitment, development, etc.).
New models of schooling to rethink education, and innovative practices to boost achievement.
Developing new instructional materials and tools.
Enhancing parent/family engagement.
Labels: education, higher education, journalism
Op-ed: Rural America doesn't need to be saved
Jean Hardy
A wave of commentators and researchers have asked whether rural America can be "saved" from problems with everything from employment levels to broadband reach, but such publications often seem to fixate on outsiders' role in fixing rural areas and ignore what rural areas are doing to save themselves. So says a thoughtful CityLab op-ed from Jean Hardy, a doctoral candidate at the University of Michigan School of Information.
Hardy, who has spent the past four years researching how rural communities in Michigan and Wisconsin use modern technology to help earn a living, writes that rural businesses and economic developers have access to many tools to help their communities grow. "The insistence that no one out there knows how to solve problems of the rural economy is a false and misleading one. There are decades of research that have identified paths forward that rural communities are already following and flourishing on," Hardy writes.
Rural areas might not have much money, but local pride and tight-knit communities go a long way toward helping rural youth succeed, Hardy writes. "We treat rural communities as if they are just behind the times and waiting to catch up. When we turn to emerging American supercities as bastions of the future, we lose what we can learn from rural communities."
Labels: broadband, Rural Development, rural image, rural migration, rural urban differences, rural-urban differences, rural-urban disparities
Escaped rodeo cow evades capture in and around Anchorage
A jogger spotted Betsy on the Tour of Anchorage Trail on Dec. 26. (Photo by Meg Kurtagh)
Anchorage, Alaska, is no stranger to wandering ruminants; after all, moose wander throughout town frequently. But an escaped rodeo cow is another matter altogether.
A wily 3-year-old cow has been roaming free in Anchorage and in the wilderness beyond for more than six months, and nobody has been able to catch her since, despite concerted efforts, Madeline McGee reports for the Anchorage Daily News.
Anchorage police have been searching for the elusive cow using drones with infrared cameras; Sgt. Mark Huelskoetter, who leads the Technical Support Unit for the department's SWAT team, figured it was good practice.
"It's a good training opportunity for our guys, since we're going to be training anyway, to maybe get something good out of this — find this dude's cow," Huelskoetter told McGee.
Labels: Alaska, cattle
Colleges work to address rural students' unique challenges
About a third of U.S. college students are from rural areas, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, and many must overcome a host of challenges in order to succeed in college. Some colleges are trying to help rural students do just that.
For example, some might come from a high school that doesn't have enough staff to adequately advise all graduating students on college preparedness. Some may come from families where no one else has a diploma and can serve as a role model or source of information about applying to college or getting financial aid, Leigh Guidry reports for the Lafayette Daily Advertiser in Louisiana.
About 59 percent of rural high school grads go straight to college, compared to 67 percent of suburban teens and 62 percent of urban teens. And not all rural students who go to college stick it out: fewer than a fifth of rural adults age 25 and up have a degree. In many rural areas, college enrollment rates have remained lower because high school grads were able to get high-paying jobs in oil, gas, coal, farming, or other industries. But that isn't the case any more, and more rural teens are becoming interested in college, Guidry reports.
Some rural high school grads who do go to college may fail to thrive there because of culture shock. Stewart Lockett of New Iberia, La., told Guidry that attending Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge was very different from his home town: "The climate and voice was different ... and there was the exposure to a lot of things not in high school, like nontraditional students. That includes transgender students, veterans, older students."
Northwestern State University in Louisiana is one of many colleges trying to smooth such transitions for rural students. The enrollment management office has a team of 10 recruiters who seek out students from rural schools. They also offer a summer camp to teach rural teens about university recruiting and admissions, financial aid, potential majors, and student support staff, Guidry reports.
Labels: colleges, higher education, rural migration, students, universities
New report shows rural-urban divide in speed-related traffic fatalities
GHSA chart; click to enlarge it
A new report from the Governors Highway Safety Association quantifies rural-urban differences in speed-related car crash deaths. Here are some of the highlights from Speeding Away from Zero: Rethinking a Forgotten Traffic Safety Challenge:
Speeding-related traffic fatalities account for about a third of all U.S. road deaths. In 2017 there were 9,717 speeding-related fatalities in the U.S.
Speeding fatalities are associated with behaviors such as driving under the influence, not using a seatbelt, driving conditions, and the way the road is built/maintained.
Curvy roads--which are more common in rural areas--are a frequent factor in speeding-related crashes. A higher percentage of fatal curve-related crashes happen on rural roads.
Fatal speeding-related crashes happen most often on non-interstate roads in both rural and urban areas, but total fatality rates on rural roads are more than twice that of urban roads.
Non-interstate rural roads have the highest incidence of speeding-related fatalities, which could be because of several factors: higher incidence of curved roads, higher speed limits, longer distances to drive with less traffic, less traffic enforcement, fewer traffic calming features (such as rumble strips), and fewer pedestrians and bicyclists.
In 2016 there were 5,013 speeding related fatalities on all rural roadways compared to 4,660 on urban roadways (interstate and non-interstate).
Labels: accidents, death, roads, traffic, transportation
Some Farm Service Agency offices reopened for three days
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has temporarily reopened almost half of the nation's Farm Service Agency offices to perform limited services for three days: today, tomorrow, and Tuesday, Jan. 22. The offices will be closed on Jan. 21 for Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
About 2,500 workers have been recalled to process payments on existing loans, provide tax documents, and a few other services deemed necessary. Offices won't be able to process new loans or trade aid applications, or dispense hurricane or wildlife relief. Click here for a list of services available, and click here for a list of reopened offices.
The move could provide some relief to farmers hurt by the shutdown, but farmers still face difficulties without access to the full scope of services offered by FSA offices. "With growing season just months away, the closure of FSA offices and other USDA programs is threatening some farmers' ability to buy seeds, land and fertilizer in time to plant many of their crops this year," Ryan McCrimmon reports for Politico. "Without access to the more than 2,100 FSA offices dotting the country, farmers and ranchers can't discuss financing options for buying land or read monthly market reports that influence planting decisions, for example."
Between Dec. 21 and Jan. 3 the USDA dispensed $2.78 billion in aid to farmers hurt by the trade war with China. About $4.4 billion in aid is still available to farmers, but farmers have no way to access it until the shutdown ends, McCrimmon reports.
Labels: agriculture, disasters, farmers, farming, federal spending, hurricane, international trade, loans, trade, wildfires
A social media campaign rallied kidnapped teen's hometown
After teen Jayme Closs was kidnapped and her parents murdered three months ago, her small town home of Barron, Wisconsin, was devastated. But three women, total strangers, came together to run a non-stop social media campaign to keep the town updated on Jayme's case, raise money for her family, and keep Jayme's picture in the minds of locals so they could search for her. Watch the CBS News story here.
Labels: small towns, youth
Op-eds say partial shutdown of federal government hurts rural areas and small towns that can least afford it
The federal shutdown is hurting rural people who can least afford it, writes Jim King in an op-ed for the Lexington Herald-Leader in Kentucky. King is the president of Fahe, a collaboration of nonprofit organizations working to eliminate poverty in Appalachia.
The shutdown is having a big impact on wage earning, food and housing for people all over America. But "in places such as Appalachia that are dominated by small and rural towns, a shutdown is potentially devastating. Federal and related agencies are an important source of liquidity so the shutdown means a lack of finance flowing in our region. This coupled with years of disinvestment adds instability to families and communities that are already struggling," King writes.
The shutdown isn't helping the growing town of Estes Park, Colorado, either, writes mountain climber Kelly Cordes in an op-ed for The New York Times. Though it was once only a summer town that catered to tourists heading for Rocky Mountain National Park, in recent years the town has been able to build a sustainable year-round economy. "But now, with so many locals having banked on a small but steady stream of income tied in various ways to the park — the fourth most visited national park in 2017, with 4.4 million visitors — the government shutdown has upended the economy of this town and created apprehension and uncertainty," Cordes writes.
Labels: economy, federal spending, food stamps, housing, jobs, national parks, small towns
Rural areas running short of ambulance drivers
Many rural areas rely on volunteers to man ambulances and run emergency medical services, but sometimes that's not enough. "Today, that system faces collapse. As these communities become grayer and less populated, there are fewer people left to drive ambulances, and fewer people left to pay the taxes that keep the ambulances in service," Nathan Kohrman reports for The New Yorker.
Sometimes EMTs from nearby towns have to come help counties with no ambulance service, meaning sometimes dangerously long waits and rides for patients and medics who are stretched too thin. "We're facing a crisis in rural America. Someone needs to do some planning or one day we're going to call 9-1-1 and nobody's going to come," said Andy Gienapp, director of the Wyoming Office of Emergency Medical Services.
The modern era of emergency transport services began in 1973 when Congress passed the EMS Systems Act, giving states more than $150 million to create or improve their emergency medical service systems. When President Reagan stripped EMS money from the federal budget in 1981, emergency services in many rural areas were only able to limp along with volunteers or by pooling resources with local volunteer fire departments, and some rural areas had to shutter their emergency services, Kohrman reports.
Dia Gainor, the executive director of the National Association of State EMS Officials, said better federal funding would be a big help for rural emergency services. "Fire departments get the love because of community insurance ratings," Gainor told Kohrman, since it's cheaper for people to insure their homes in rural towns with fire stations.
Gienapp agreed that better federal funding would help augment state and local funding. "Do we have a right to an ambulance within five minutes of our home? Within forty minutes? The answer isn't going to make everybody happy. Cities are going to have to help write the checks, and they can't just say, 'Tough nuts, hillbillies,'" Gienapp told Kohrman.
Structural changes could also help: "Congress could let rural ambulances make more money by billing for the care they provide. It could legislate higher reimbursement rates for Medicaid and Medicare, the way it did with the Critical Access Hospital program, which has helped rural hospitals increase their revenue," Kohrman reports. "Federal lawmakers could also establish grants to help fund EMS volunteers and full-time medics, and commission national-scale research on EMS. In states that have not expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, lawmakers could vote to do so."
Labels: emergency services, federal spending, Medicaid, Medicare, rural health
Report: Clean energy jobs fuel rural Midwestern economy
Natural Resources Defense Council chart; click the image to enlarge it.
A newly published report says that clean energy is a major source of jobs in the rural Midwest, far more so than fossil fuels jobs in most states, according to a report produced by environmental nonprofit the Natural Resources Defense Council using numbers from a research firm that collected the data for the Department of Energy's U.S. Energy and Employment Report."
"Clean energy jobs outnumber the combined jobs in oil, gas and coal jobs in rural communities within the twelve-state region the study included, according to the study, Clean Energy Sweeps Across Rural America," Bryce Oates reports for The Daily Yonder. "Only two states, North Dakota and Kansas, have more fossil fuel workers than clean energy workers."
The growth rate of rural clean energy jobs in the region is generally also far higher than economy-wide job growth in rural areas, and slightly higher than the growth rate of clean energy jobs in urban areas, the report found. Jobs related to solar power (including installation, sales and servicing) are more than 45 percent of renewable energy jobs in the Midwest, according to the report. But wind energy is the big winner in rural clean energy jobs, with 99 percent of existing wind capacity in rural communities, Oates reports.
Not only does wind power provide jobs and power millions of homes, but it also gives rural counties a significant bump in tax revenue. Oates writes, "Farmers and landowners earn significant income from leasing land for wind farms, approximately $245 million nationally, the report says. Within the study's 12-state region, Iowa, Illinois, and Kansas receive more than $10 million annually from wind leases. Landowners in North Dakota, Minnesota, and Indiana receive between $5 million and $10 million."
Federal programs have been instrumental in the growth of the clean energy industry, including tax credits to offset tax liabilities, grants and loans for installing clean energy projects and funding for developing and improving power lines and smart grids, Oates reports.
Labels: petroleum, rural-urban differences, solar power, wind power
FDA bringing back furloughed workers without pay to resume some inspections for high-risk foods
The Food and Drug Administration has ordered about 150 unpaid workers to resume inspections of high-risk foods such as infant formula, cheese, and some fresh produce. Most food has gone without inspection since the partial federal government shutdown began Dec. 22, Maggie Fox reports for NBC News.
The agency employs about 5,000 inspectors who make about 160 inspections per month. FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb said the agency will resume inspections by early next week of some medical products whose inspections were halted by the shutdown. Some inspections are paid for through industry user fees, and those were never halted, Fox reports.
U.S. lettuce growers are desperate to have FDA inspectors back on the job, since American-grown romaine lettuce contaminated with E. coli bacteria caused three separate foodborne-illness outbreaks in 2018. The biggest one, in March, sickened 2010 people and led to five deaths, Joel Achenbach reports for The Washington Post.
"During the shutdown, the FDA isn't allowed to participate in conference calls or webinars with state officials, industry leaders and research scientists, said Jennifer McEntire, vice president for food safety at United Fresh Produce Association. She said the lack of FDA help has had a 'ripple effect' as outside experts are forced to try to do their work without FDA data," Achenbach reports.
The FDA told the Post that the resumed high-risk inspections could include leafy greens, Achenbach reports, but the agency has provided few details about what it's doing during the shutdown.
Labels: agriculture, farming, food safety
Federal judge nixes Census citizenship question; could help some rural areas get a higher count and more federal funds
On Tuesday a federal judge in New York ordered the Census Bureau to remove a question added last year to the 2020 census form that would ask whether the respondent is a American citizen. The issue could have big implications for states and communities with a large Latino population, such as agricultural communities.
Federal and state money is often apportioned by census data, and Census Bureau research suggests that a citizenship question could scare even legal noncitizens away from participating, leading those areas to be undercounted and underfunded, Hansi Lo Wang reports for NPR. Rural areas are already at risk of being undercounted because of the the Census Bureau's move to a largely online survey.
Though District Judge Jesse Furman ruled on two combined cases, "the administration is fighting five more lawsuits across the country filed by dozens of states, cities and other groups that want the question removed. A second trial over the question began earlier this month in California, and another is scheduled to begin in Maryland on Jan. 22," Wang reports.
The Supreme Court has already agreed to settle a dispute about what kind of evidence can be used in the lawsuits and whether Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, who oversees the Census Bureau, can be asked under oath why he allowed the question to be added, Wang reports.
Labels: census, federal spending, Hispanics
Survey puts numbers on rural seniors' transportation issue
A recent survey confirmed that rural seniors who can no longer drive face significant obstacles in finding transportation, which can limit their ability to stay in their homes as they age.
"A survey by the National Aging and Disability Transportation Center found that 68 percent of adults 60 and older who they polled this fall said it would be hard to find alternative transportation options if they needed to stop driving," Laura Maggi reports for Route Fifty. "The poll also included younger disabled people, who said they would struggle even more, with 80 percent responding that it would be difficult to find other alternatives."
Most rural areas have two major problems when it comes to transportation: too many people don't know about public transit or other available options, and sometimes there just aren't enough transportation options to augment public transit, broadly defined, Maggi reports.
"Only 15 percent of the 509 older adults who were polled between Oct. 19 and Nov. 5—which included both phone and online respondents—reported using public transportation and even fewer used special services like paratransit or a volunteer ride agency," Maggi reports. "Transit use was higher among younger people with disabilities, with about a third of the 513 respondents saying they used public transportation."
Even a small state like Massachusetts is having a hard time providing public transit for rural areas where seniors are a key demographic. The state has 15 regional transit agencies, but some rural areas still don't have access to public transportation, or can only access it on weekdays, Adam Vaccaro reports for The Boston Globe. The state legislature provided more funding for bus services last year, but the regional agencies still have to apply for the money and show why they need it. Some proposed solutions include better broadband access so seniors can use ride-hailing services like Uber, a "micro-transit" service that blends ride-hailing services and smaller transit vehicles like shuttle buses to create flexible routes that change with passenger demand, Vaccaro reports.
Labels: rural-urban disparities, seniors, transportation
Trump order to prevent wildfires may not help much, and would increase logging on public land
President Trump's recent executive order, meant to prevent wildfires, would dramatically increase logging on public land, Sara Sorcher reports for The Washington Post.
The order, issued the Friday before Christmas, "instructs the secretaries of agriculture and interior to consider harvesting a total of 4.4 billion board feet of timber from forest land managed by their agencies on millions of acres, and put it up for sale. The order would translate into a 31percent increase in forest service logging since 2017," Darryl Fears and Juliet Eilperin report in another story for the Post. "In addition to removing trees, Trump asked his secretaries to remove forest brush and debris that help fuel fires from more than 4 million acres and treat another 1.5 million acres to control tree-destroying pests."
Some experts say such actions won't help very much. Jennifer Balch, a fire ecologist and professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, told Sorcher in an email that, while treating federal forests near homes is sensible, it won't help with the huge wildfires out West. Hot and dry weather is the biggest problem, she said, and that problem will continue to get worse in the future.
The Trump administration wants the logging to continue even though the U.S. Forest Service is closed for the duration of the federal shutdown and can't do the more effective work of clearing the dry brush that helps wildfires spread, Sorcher notes.
Labels: federal spending, forests, logging
Thousands face eviction after HUD contracts not renewed
National Low Income Housing Coalition map; click the image to enlarge it.
Affordable-housing advocates say thousands of low-income Americans could be evicted because of the partial shutdown of the federal government.
"Since the shutdown began last month, approximately 1,150 federal rental assistance contracts have not been renewed due to funding lapses at the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
These lapses impact Project-Based Rental Assistance agreements between private property owners and the federal government," Brakkton Booker reports for NPR. "These landlords are contracted to house low and very low-income residents. The property owner charges tenants modest rents and HUD kicks in subsidies to make up the difference." HUD housing contracts cover about 1.2 million low-income families in both rural and urban areas.
Five hundred more HUD contracts will expire by the end of January, and another 550 will expire by the end of February. HUD asked property owners to take some of the financial burden in a letter earlier this month, urging landlords to use their savings to cover federal funding shortfalls so tenants wouldn't have to be evicted, Booker reports.
Diane Yentel, president and CEO of the National Low Income Housing Coalition, told Booker that "Eventually these owners will have to resort to either significant rent hikes or evictions of these lowest-income renters."
Rural areas of the U.S. were already facing an affordable housing crisis before the shutdown. Hundreds of thousands of homes could age out of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Section 515 Rural Rental Housing program unless the USDA pays to repair and update those properties.
Labels: federal spending, housing, poverty
More women lead cattle ranches as men leave family farms
Caitlyn Taussig mends fences in Kremmling, Colorado (New York Times photo by Amanda Lucier)
Though the archetypal Western rancher is a John Wayne-type male, these days "as mechanization and technology transform the ranching industry, making the job of cowboy less about physical strength — though female ranchers have that in spades — and more about business, animal husbandry and the environment, women have reclaimed their connection to the land," Amy Chozick reports for The New York Times.
Increasingly, men who would have inherited family farms and ranches have been lured away by more profitable and less physical work, leaving women to either run the family business or sell. About 11 percent of the nation's nearly 730,000 cattle ranches are run by women, according to the National Cattlemen's Beef Association (which may need to change its name before too long). That number could continue increasing, since the age of the average beef cattle rancher is 58 years, 91 percent of cattle farms are family-owned, and more than half of those ranches are expected to change hands in the next 20 years, Chozick reports.
Because these ranching women often don't feel like they fit the mold of what a rancher should look like, some say they feel more empowered to do things differently. "Women are leading the trend of sustainable ranching and raising grass-fed breeds of cattle in humane, ecological ways," Chozick reports.
Labels: agriculture, cattle, ranchers, ranching, women
Farm Bureau president voices support for Trump trade war, but warns that farmers are hurting; Iowa journalist agrees
On Sunday the leader of America's largest farm lobby expressed support for President Trump's trade war with China, but said farmers are having a rough time and warned that such support might not last forever, Chuck Abbott reports for Successful Farming.
"We're with you, Mr. President," said Zippy Duvall, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, as the group opened its convention in New Orleans. But he added a caveat: "The runaway of our patience is going to be determined by the financial situation of our farms. We went into the battle very weak."
That attitude was reflected much more sharply today in a New York Times column by Robert Leonard, news director of KNIA in Knoxville, Iowa. Noting that Trump will speak to the convention, he writes, "any promises of help will be too late for many farmers. Had he set out to ruin America's small farmers, he could hardly have come up with a more effective, potentially ruinous one-two combination punch than tariffs and the shutdown."
Senate Agriculture Committee chair Pat Roberts, who spoke after Duvall, suggested that the U.S. should trade with China while negotiating to decrease or end China's unfair trading practices and intellectual piracy. Abbott reports. Trump is scheduled to speak Tuesday.
Abbott notes, "Farm and rural voters were key to Trump's election in 2016 and he remains highly popular in rural America. He scored a sky-high 76 percent approval rating in late December, just before the partial government shutdown, in a straw poll of producers by Farm Journal. By contrast, Trump has an approval rating of 41 percent in a tracking poll maintained by the analytical site FiveThirtyEight."
Duvall said 2018 was a "terrible year" for farmers, citing hurricanes, wildfires, lost income from the trade war, a farm-labor shortage and low commodity prices. And though farm income is about half the record high set in 2013, "the year was a success as far as federal policy, he said, with tax cuts for farmers and ranchers, regulatory relief, passage of a five-year farm law that modestly strengthens the safety net and administration promises to begin year round sales this summer of E15, a 15-percent blend of corn ethanol into gasoline," Abbott reports.
Leonard writes, "Most rural American farms are not big corporate operations. The most recent available farm census data, from 2012, shows that Iowa has nearly 89,000 farms, and 57 percent are small farms under 180 acres. Generally, to make a living on farm income, operations of at least 225 to 750 acres or more are needed. Of the farmers that Mr. Trump's tariffs and shutdown are hurting, about 80 percent are family businesses. So 'big ag' — the only farmers with the capital to survive over the long term — profits from the blundering crisis. If and when small farmers fail, larger operations can swoop in and buy up the land at fire sale prices. The large seed and other input companies would rather deliver product to one farm in a township than 27."
Labels: agriculture, disasters, ethanol, farmers, farming, federal spending, hurricane, international trade, lobbying, trade, wildfires
WVU gets grant for program to find and train potential new owners for rural newspapers that have no good successor
A foundation that focuses on West Virginia and adjoining regions has given West Virginia University a $125,000 grant to help rural and community journalism in the state by creating a pipeline to develop new owners of for community newspapers, some of whose aging owners have delayed retirement because they can't find a suitable buyer and don't want the paper to fold.
The grant from the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation, augmented by the WVU Foundation, will support a partnership between the Reed College of Media and the West Virginia Press Association "to recruit, develop and train the next generation of independent community newspaper owners," and help current publishers get their papers ready to sell, WVU says.
The idea developed after WVPA Executive Director Don Smith told College Dean Maryanne Reed that he had received many phone calls from long-time owners looking for someone to take over, Mark Jurkowitz wrote last year for Nieman Lab. The college hopes to launch the program this fall.
The three-year program aims to facilitate smooth transfers of ownership so newspapers can remain a strong presence in their communities, and will enroll potential new owners in a year-long fellowship at the college to help them learn more modern ways to run a newspaper. That includes learning about digital media, new funding models for media, and an internship at a West Virginia newspaper to learn about the everyday business of running a small, local paper.
Labels: colleges, grants, journalism, journalism training, newspapers, rural journalism
Sunday comic encapsulates why local news media matter
Yesterday's Pearls Before Swine by Stephen Pastis shows, in nine panels and fewer than 100 words why supporting independent, investigative journalism at the local level matters:
Written by Heather Chapman Posted at 1/14/2019 11:53:00 AM 1 comment:
Labels: community journalism, investigative reporting, journalism, local government, newspapers, rural journalism
Rural colleges making big changes to stay afloat; students ask, 'What's a university without a major in history?'
UW-Stevens Point was founded as a teachers' college in 1894.
Many public universities in smaller towns are in crisis mode as enrollment and state funding continue to drop, and it doesn't look like those trends will improve any time soon. Administrators at such colleges are making drastic changes to combat the downturn, including slashing staff, changing up majors, appealing more to adults looking to switch careers, and merging satellite programs and even campuses, Mitch Smith reports for The New York Times.
The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, near the geographic center of the state, is his object example. For 125 years the university has been a reputable, relatively inexpensive way for rural residents to get a degree and improve their lives, but declining enrollment and state funding have prompted university administrators to revamp the college's offerings, eliminating classical liberal arts degrees like history and French and investing more in career-focused programs. "But critics say that in trying to carve out a sustainable path for Stevens Point — and build a model for other struggling, regionally focused universities — administrators are risking the very essence of a four-year college experience," Smith reports.
Advances in transportation technology are part of the reason rural colleges struggle. "Most universities were founded generations ago, when rural communities were thriving and when traveling across a state to a larger urban campus was more complicated," Smith reports. "As people moved toward cities and the Sun Belt, and as cars and planes connected the country, many rural universities have fallen on hard times."
Rural private colleges, as well as public and private historically black institutions, are also hurting. Without the cushion provided by state funding, the trends that pressure public universities are more likely to cause private schools to close, like St. Catharine College in Kentucky and Dana College in Nebraska.
Labels: colleges, education, higher education, rural migration, rural-urban disparities, universities
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Uncaged Demons Are Tormenting The Middle East By David Gardner
it will require a pan-communal effort to provide equal citizenship and secure diversity, through strong confederal institutions that nevertheless command assent by devolving power and defending minority rights
Uncaged demons are tormenting the Middle East
By David Gardner
At the start of this year, shortly after the US and other world powers reached an interim deal with Iran to negotiate further on its nuclear programme, The New Yorker magazine published a fascinating, discursive interview with Barack Obama. The US president floated the idea of a sort of competitive equilibrium in the Middle Eastto replace the sectarian struggle within Islam between Sunni and Shia, and the proxy wars across the region pursued by Saudi Arabia and Iran from each side of this schism.
If satisfactory safeguards could be agreed on Tehran's nuclear ambitions, and a wider rapprochement and international reintegration of Iran were to follow, "you could see an equilibrium developing between Sunni, or predominantly Sunni, Gulf states and Iran, in which there's competition, perhaps suspicion, but not an active or proxy warfare", the president said. "If you can start unwinding some of that [hostility], that creates a new equilibrium", which would "allow us to work with functioning states to prevent extremists from emerging there", he went on.
Alas, almost as he was speaking, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, the jihadi movement that hijacked the mainly Sunni uprising in Syria as the west declined to give mainstream rebels the means to fight Bashar al-Assad's regime, started its surge into Iraq. In January, Isis took Fallujah and Ramadi in western Iraq. From June this seemingly elemental force seized Mosul, Tikrit and a string of towns in the north and centre of the country, pressing south to Baghdad and east into Kurdistan.
Six months on, Syria and Iraq are not functioning states. Isis, riding a wave of Sunni rebellion against Iran-backed regimes in Damascus and Baghdad, holds a third of both countries. The extremists – and they do not come much more extreme – have declared a jihadi caliphate in the heart of a disintegrating Middle East, and are trying to punch a corridor to the Mediterranean.
Mr Obama's idea of a self-regulating balance of power has dissolved in an acid cocktail of state failure, sectarian savagery and a jihadist rampage so confident that almost every armed force in the Levant is melting before its onslaught
Is the idea of resocialising Iran into the geopolitics of the Middle East and the world – which would be as historic for Mr Obama as American rapprochement with China was under Richard Nixon – still a runner? Saudi Arabia, the leading Sunni Arab power, and Iran, its Persian Shia rival, have both used sectarianism as a galvanising weapon in their struggle for regional power. Wahhabi fundamentalism is the ideological backbone of the Saudi absolute monarchy and has always abominated Shiism as a polytheist heresy, like the jihadis of Isis who pledge to annihilate it. The Wahhabis first sacked Kerbala and Najaf, the great Shia shrine cities of Iraq, in 1801-02 – and Isis promises to do so again. Iran became a theocracy after the 1979 Islamic Revolution but, unlike the Wahhabis, has no theological animus against other mainstream religions. Yet both countries have uncaged sectarian demons they cannot control.
Saudi Arabia and Iran have both used religious differences as a galvanising weapon in their struggle for regional power
One strand of Iran's thinking, visible in the nuclear talks, is that it wants to secure recognition as a legitimate regional power and is alarmed by the tide of sectarianism roaring across the Middle East and lapping closer to its borders. But another has been complacent, aggressive and overreaching, lulled by the ease with which Tehran built an Arab Shia axis from Baghdad to Beirut after the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 – to which the Sunni states led by the Saudis will never resign themselves.
This Iranian triumphalism is epitomised by General Qassem Soleimani, commander of the al-Quds Force, external spearhead of the Revolutionary Guards. In February, as al-Quds auxiliaries such as Hizbollah, the Lebanese paramilitaries, were clearing the road from Damascus to the Syrian coast of anti-Assad rebels, he was exulting that "the countries that claim to be leading the Muslim world cannot take over from Iran as the leader of the Islamic world until tens of years later".
Yet as the ostensible master of the seamless battlefield of the Levant, Gen Soleimani and his masters in Tehran have done little to restrain their local clients. Mr Assad, a ward of the Iranian state, has lost half his country and reduced much of the rest to rubble, killing 170,000 people. Using Hizbollah as shock troops in Syria has blown back into and destabilised Lebanon. Iran's erstwhile ally in Baghdad, the Shia Islamist prime minister Nouri al-Maliki, hollowed out Iraq's army with corrupt placemen and emulated the Assads by dropping barrel bombs on Fallujah. Mr Maliki is at last on the way out, with Iran's complicity, but his sectarian policies have already swelled the ranks of Isis. For a man with a reputation as a consummate poker player, Gen Soleimani has overplayed his hand.
Mr Obama rightly judged that an Iran with a stake in solving the problems of the Middle East, rather than incentives to destabilise it, could be transformative. But the region is very far gone, descending daily to new depths of violence.
If these crumbling states can be reassembled, it will require a pan-communal effort to provide equal citizenship and secure diversity, through strong confederal institutions that nevertheless command assent by devolving power and defending minority rights. But this is theoretical unless this demonic sectarian spiral can be broken. And that will not happen until Saudi Arabia and Iran decide it has to be.
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