Seeking a rural utopia? Look to Kentucky
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GLASGOW, Ky, Feb 1 (Reuters Life!) - If life in a farming community with friendly neighbors and a police force kept busy tracking down fake $100 bills is your idea of utopia, then Kentucky could be the place for you.
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A bankrupt Japanese coal town may provide a glimpse  of a grim future to a country riddled with debt and an aging, shrinking population
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Fred Thompsonâs style is playing well in rural South Carolina, where his poll numbers show a tease of life.
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In her books, Amy Blackmarr writes about finding peace, often secluded in faraway cabins. But wherever she goes, from the heartland to the South to New England, a casino is never far away.
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A dusty gravel driveway leads to an old house once occupied by an Appalachian family. Next door is a little shack that sells hot dogs and ice cream, and a few miles away is a series of coal processing plants.
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The road to energy independence starts in a cornfield in Nebraska. Venture capitalist Vinod Khosla explains why he believes in biofuels. From Wired magazine.
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By Seth Freedland, Daily Press, Newport News, Va.  Jun.
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By Hubble Smith  By HUBBLE SMITH  REVIEW-JOURNAL  People may eventually find themselves driving to work in Las Vegas from Riverside and Glendale - not the California cities, but the rural nooks that lie somewhat undiscovered to the northeast of us.
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By Joe Walker, The Paducah Sun, Ky.  Sep. 19--Local economic development leaders head to the nation's capital Wednesday with a wish list topped by an ambitious sewer project designed to support -- and enhance -- long-term residential and industrial growth in western McCracken County.
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By SAMIRA JAFARI HARLAN, Ky. - A dusty gravel driveway leads to an old house once occupied by an Appalachian family. Next door is a little shack that sells hot dogs and ice cream, and a few miles away is a series of coal processing plants.
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AMBOSELI, Kenya  - With the world poised to enter an urban age when more people will live in cities than in the countryside, Josiah Tobiko sees no need to move from his cow dung-covered hut in rural Kenya.
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Gardening in our area is difficult sometimes. Clay soil, too much heat, too much cold, poison ivy ... whew. That said, last week I took a break from my little plot of land in the Kanawha Valley and landed in dreamland.   Hubby asked me to join him as he ventured west for a conference.
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FRANKFORT, Ky. -- Days after suffering political losses across the state, Kentucky Democrats were searching for answers: anything from holding a summit and redefining the party to simply &quot;finding better Democrats.
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By The Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky.  Jun. 24--A lot has changed in the eight years since farmland lovers battled a plan to build a water pipeline from Louisville to Lexington and the Urban County Council endorsed a Kentucky River solution.
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By Page, Brian  Agrarian Dreams: The Paradox of Organic Farming in California. By Julie Guthman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004.
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By The Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky.  Jun. 12--There were thunderstorms across the Bluegrass and Eastern Kentucky last week, but not enough to significantly move the readings of the Palmer Drought Severity Index.
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HARLAN, Ky. - Out-of-state license plates tell the story of eastern Kentucky's rising popularity among off-roaders...