Articles by Chuck Fluharty

On Monday, October 28, Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear and Congressman Hal Rogers, Chairman of the U.S. House Appropriations Committee, traveled to Hazard Community and Technical College, deep in the eastern Kentucky mountains, to announce a major new initiative they are co-sponsoring—the Shaping O

Their poll found nearly 80% of Americans believe we are headed in the wrong direction—a watershed number for this poll, not seen since the Watergate crisis in the Nixon Administration.

Congress returns from August Recess this week, and, as we all knew would probably occur, suddenly other much more pressing business makes Farm Bill consideration by September 30 highly unlikely

Each day, the ag media dutifully reports constituent meetings in which House and Senate Ag Committee Members try to explain what happened, and discuss recess efforts to find the interim fix

This column is about The End of Big , The Fate of the States , and the Washington Post coverage of the Senate Farm Bill’s “rural” definitions.

the Ag Committees have continued to chip away at Rural Development funding in recent years. Mandatory RD funding in Farm Bills has declined from $300 million in 1996 to $150 million in last year’s Senate bill and only $50 million in the House bill. Additionally, the Ag Committees have cut overall U

We live in a nation where deep cultural, social, political, and regional divisions are exacerbated by those receiving benefit from their continuation