Rural Republicans for Nurses

Rep. Christian savages rules for advanced practice nurses as blocking rural care

"...caricature and name-calling, and address the core issue of rural health care provision...."

May 20, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Internet Brings the World to Rural TexasThe Road to the Wild

"...behind this tourism push is Leland Beatty of Texas Rural Communities (TRC), a non-profit company that grew out of..."

Feb. 21, 1997 Screens Feature by Janet Heimlich

Abbott Says School Vouchers Are Coming, Rural Republicans Don’t Seem Convinced

A Guv can dream, can’t he?

"...to peel off most of the 24 Republicans from rural districts who voted twice with Democrats this spring to..."

Oct. 20, 2023 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

A Rural Riddle

Hays County Water Planning Partnership forms to try and stop unmitigated growth

"...massive new developments will rob them of their peaceful, rural lifestyle...."

Oct. 15, 1999 News Feature by Rob D'Amico

What About Retired Rural Teachers?

"...education, teachers, etc., no one mentions the elderly retired rural teachers. Why? All teachers will be retired one day,..."

Jan. 9, 2012 Postmarks

Rural Kraut

"...Austinites relish the chance to get out on the rural roads and explore the remote hill towns outside our..."

Jan. 15, 1999 Food Feature by Pableaux Johnson

All Hail the Queen of Rural Media!

Jay Byrd brings Pat Hazell's Kodachrome Christmas to cheery life.

"...a cable-access TV hostess – the self-proclaimed "Queen of Rural Media" – who is taping her Christmas special in..."

Nov. 26, 2014 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

'Rural Lifestylers' Still Listen to the Radio

"...to the radio as – wait for it – “rural lifestylers.” The distress of a floundering industry did surface..."

Sept. 29, 2008 Postmarks

Endangered Species?

The remaining rural Democrats in the Legislature consider their options -- and fight back.

"...dozen or so remaining white Democrats who represent mostly rural districts (see map, below). This session the group has..."

July 18, 2003 News Feature by Michael King

Splinter

Apart from its shape-shifting fungal porcupines from outer space, this horror film has little else to recommend.

"...more film about honeymooners and white-trashers trapped in a rural gas station by things unknown. It's a smallish subgenre,..."

Oct. 31, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Outsourced

When a Seattle man is transferred to India due to outsourcing, he overcomes his aversion and becomes the eventual poster boy for immersing, life-altering travel.

"...entire team to outsourcing and that it’s off to rural India with him to train a new group of..."

Sept. 28, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

A Piece of Eden

"...that Hancock has a feel for this sort of rural melodrama (the production notes mention that he grew up..."

July 21, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

About AIDS

AIDS isn't just an urban disease.

"...disease. However, HIV and AIDS are more common in rural America than many people realize - and continuing to..."

Sept. 3, 1999 Column by Sandy Bartlett

Women From the Lake of Scented Souls

"...1993 Berlin Film Festival. Xiang (Gaowa) is a middle-aged rural businesswomen who oversees her family's traditional sesame-oil company. With..."

Jan. 20, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Double Bind

"...well as adaptable. The first film, Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy by Tracey Moffatt, is the most perplexing. Visually..."

Feb. 28, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Hold the Dark

Humanity's animal instincts exposed in the Alaskan wilderness

"...Imagine Hold the Dark as a period picture: A rural fort sends for a tracker that has retired to..."

Sept. 28, 2018 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Look & See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry

A look into the world of the farmer and activist

"...viewer will come away with an appreciation of Berry’s rural philosophy and a greater knowledge of the realities faced..."

Sept. 1, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ain't Them Bodies Saints

A hardscrabble, heartbreaking, love-and-death affair is gorgeously captured in David Lowery's Texas feature.

"...appears to be kith and kin with outlaw Seventies rural romances like Terrence Malick’s Badlands and the benevolent, inspirational..."

Aug. 23, 2013 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Promised Land

Matt Damon and John Krasinski star in this modern morality tale about fracking in America; Gus Van Sant directs.

"...story idea Krasinski developed with Dave Eggers). Set in rural Pennsylvania, Promised Land tells the story of a moral..."

Jan. 4, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Painted Veil

Set in China and starring Naomi Watts, Edward Norton, and Liev Schreiber, this melodic adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's novel is the story of many things – but it is most of all the story of a marriage.

"...many things – such as an epidemic in the rural corners of a modernizing and nationally unified China, circa..."

Dec. 29, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Paper Clips

It’s an only-in-America tale about kids in the Tennessee hamlet of Whitwell and their "paper clip project” – a teaching tool meant to help them comprehend the dimensions of the Holocaust – but it grew into something much, much more.

"...incomprehensible horrors of the Holocaust. For these poor, white, rural children and their teachers, the figure of 6 million..."

Feb. 18, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Secondhand Lions

In this unique family film that's also an ode to heroic movies gone by, a boy is sent for the summer to live with his two eccentric uncles in Texas.

"...director’s films have the laconic, summer-evening feel of American rural life down pat. Ultimately, though, McCanlies is a whiz..."

Sept. 19, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Dems Vie to Oust Sid Miller, Take Back Texas Agriculture

Priorities include economic incentives for small farms, rural health care, and internet access

"...One of Hays' top priorities is rural health care – something Ireson worries is less palatable..."

Feb. 25, 2022 News Feature by Lina Fisher

Pavarotti

Ron Howard's documentary shows the great tenor in all his humanity

"...giving a recital (white handkerchief in hand) in small-town rural America, or chatting in a guest chair on the..."

June 21, 2019 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Cold Pursuit

Liam Neeson is Mr. Plow ... with a vengeance

"...at mangling the bad guys as they are clearing rural Rocky Mountain roads...."

Feb. 15, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

2019 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Documentary

Tales of love and hate dominate these Oscar hopefuls

"...respect, secure a modest financial footing, and break down rural India’s cultural and religious opprobrium against menstruation by manufacturing..."

Feb. 8, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Back Roads

Dark family drama works, but was better as a book

"...desperation to these characterizations through his unsentimental depiction of rural Pennsylvania. The cast – especially its youngest actors –..."

Dec. 7, 2018 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

The China Hustle

The next global economic meltdown, in terrifying detail.

"...the making, threading the narrative all the way from rural China to Flint, Michigan...."

April 20, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun?

A true-crime family mystery indicts decades of racial violence.

"...some answers regarding a family murder mystery: In 1946 rural Alabama, his great-grandfather S.E. Branch, a white grocery story..."

April 20, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

Thelma

A college student's burgeoning sexuality brings on psychic powers

"...The titular Thelma (Harboe) has been raised in a rural community in Norway her whole life, brought up by..."

Dec. 1, 2017 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

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