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Category Archives: Media

SOARing into a regional future in Appalachian Kentucky

This column touches on leadership, seeking collaborative benefit, aligning towns, and creating an envisioned rural future. It will also discuss two major new rural initiatives. Written by Charles W. Fluharty for the AGRIPULSE Magazine in November 2013. View Column

Posted byMeldrum, VictoriaNovember 2, 2013November 24, 2020Posted inMediaTags: Local and State Policy, Public Policy, Regional Innovation, SOAR

Rural Defeat, Rural Denial, and the Farm Bill Conference

This has been an historic, discouraging, and informative week in American politics, and the American people have had it. Really, can all this possibly become any more surreal? Written by Charles W. Fluharty, Guest Columnist, AGRIPULSE Magazine in October of 2013. View Column

Posted byMeldrum, VictoriaOctober 2, 2013November 24, 2020Posted inMediaTags: Farm Bill, National Policy, Public Policy

The Farm Bill, As Metaphor!

RUPRI President and CEO Chuck Fluharty offers commentary on how the failure to pass a farm exposes changing realities in the rural landscape that are not being addressed by current policy embedded in the Farm Bill. Written by Charles W. Fluharty for AGRIPULSE Magazine in August 2013. View Column

Posted byMeldrum, VictoriaAugust 2, 2013November 24, 2020Posted inMediaTags: Farm Bill, National Policy, Public Policy

On Keeping It Well: The Farm Bill and The Fourth

RUPRI President and CEO Chuck Fluharty comments on factors at play in the defeat of the Farm Bill. Written by Charles W. Fluharty for AGRIPULSE Magazine in July 2013. View Column

Posted byMeldrum, VictoriaJuly 2, 2013November 24, 2020Posted inMediaTags: Farm Bill, National Policy, Public Policy

Getting Our Story Straight: Rural Facts in Search of the ‘Grand Narrative.’

This column offers commentary calling for policy makers to add new focus and funding for rural innovations in support of meaningful rural development. Written by Charles W. Fluharty, Guest Columnist, AGRIPULSE Magazine in May 2013. View Columnist

Posted byMeldrum, VictoriaMay 2, 2013November 24, 2020Posted inMediaTags: Farm Bill, National Policy, Public Policy

Rural America, Urban America, or E Pluribus Unum?

As we all know, rural America is an amazingly diverse and dynamic place, and far from homoge-nous, in almost all ways. As the old saw goes, “Once you have seen one rural community, you have, indeed, seen just one rural community!” While this stereotyping is unfortunate, rural America has a far deeper challenge, which became […]

Posted byMeldrum, VictoriaApril 2, 2013November 24, 2020Posted inMediaTags: National Policy, Public Policy
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