Sentences with phrase «rural state with»

Wisconsin's a rural state with a competitive insurance market, so rates are low.

It's long been a rural state with agriculture and tourism as important industries.

It's long been a rural state with agriculture and tourism as important industries.

In Oklahoma, a mostly rural state with large pockets of poverty around Tulsa, the biggest chunk of school improvement money is concentrated in six persistently low - performing schools in Tulsa.

The vision was ambitious, especially for a rural state with a high poverty rate.

«The other thing that I guess the Sanders supporters would say is, «you know, he comes from a rural state with widespread gun ownership»... So is it not fair to let Bernie Sanders off the hook in that way?»

Sanders has defended his position on guns, considering that he comes from a rural state with few gun deaths and loose firearms laws.

Vermont is a small, entirely rural state with just 600,000 people.

Not exact matches

Strickland won in the state in 2006 with strong support in the rural Appalachian eastern portion of Ohio.

The governor's offices of several states with rural areas who have struggled with budget shortfalls since 2017, like Missouri, Ohio, and West Virginia, did not respond to request for comment.

The state's widespread wet autumn has helped lift rural confidence, with most farmers expecting this year to either be a better year for the agricultural economy or as just as good as last year.

Despite the «Sin City» association with Las Vegas, much of the state of Nevada is rural and conservative.

It was on the strength of the Sinaloa cartel's seemingly more calculated strategies (a cartel whose famous face is El Chapo, but also includes the co-leadership of Ismael «El Mayo» Zambada) that Sinaloa had become dominant among Mexico's criminal syndicates, extending far beyond the rural northwestern state, with significant inroads to all principal border areas between the United States and Mexico — Juarez, Mexicali, Tijuana, and reaching as far as Los Cabos.

In his book released Monday, «Our 50 - State Border Crisis: How the Mexican Border Fuels the Drug Epidemic Across America,» Buffett took a nuanced approach to Trump's border wall and examined his personal interaction with drug addicts in the rural Arizona and Illinois counties where he serves as a volunteer sheriff's deputy.

The states with the most wireless - only households tend to be largely rural and in the West or South; households in the Northeast are most likely to hang onto their landlines.

The geographic areas that CFs serve vary in size from entire states or regions of a state (e.g. Southeastern Texas) to major metropolitan cities like New York City to rural counties with populations less than 2,500.

If New Orleans is rampant with violence, does that hold true for the more rural areas of the state?

Born and raised in El Quetzalito, a rural community in the state of Petén, Guatemala, the 48 - year - old Román started working in 1990 with the National Council of Protected Areas of Guatemala (CONAP)-- the organization tasked with making the 2.1m - hectare (6m - acre) Maya Biosphere Reserve a reality — and has worked in conservation ever since, including as director of CONAP.

What we need to learn is how can farms, how can rural communities, how can underserved communities benefit from supplying top - line ingredients, grown in the United States, and work with some of the greatest brands in the world, natural products industry brands, to do great things and increase the health and wellness outcomes for America.

This compared with just a 1 per cent rise in rural values from 2012 to 2014 to $ 98 billion, due mainly to distressed dairy farm sales in the state's south - west.

Lauran and Henriette Damen had a dream to live and work in rural Tasmania having fallen in love with the beautiful landscape and lifestyle of the state.

Guided by five bottom lines — Sustaining our Business, our Brands, our People, our Community and the Planet — Matthew works with state and federal officials, academia, ingredient suppliers, farmers within Clif agriculture supply chain and the organic industry to improve the success of the rural communities from which we source our food.

Nebraska's geography is primarily rural; a sparsely populated state with 34 out of 93 counties considered to be frontier (six or fewer persons per square mile).

Earlier this year, pelinks4u.org, an Internet newsletter specializing in physical education topics, told a story about maturity and selflessness in youth sports in rural Washington state: Michael Denny, the wrestling coach at Housel Middle School in Prosser, Wash., asked his counterpart at Morgan Middle School in Ellensburg, John Graf, if he knew of a Morgan wrestler who would agree to an exhibition match against a Housel wrestler with cognitive and physical disabilities.

More than half of public school districts in the United States are in rural communities where millions of students struggle with poverty and hunger.

Additionally, BabyCenter is currently participating in a number of maternal health projects around the globe including text4baby in the United States, collaboration with the Grameen Foundation in rural Ghana, and a new mobile program in India in an effort to reach underserved women and empower them to take control over their own health by implementing positive behavior changes.

These include the use of child labour, sourcing chocolate from cacao farms which use slave labour, stealing rural water resources in the United States, marketing formula with questionable and sometimes outright illegal claims, etc etc..

The meetings will be held on Oct. 25 in Cortland and Nov. 14 in Newburgh as state lawmakers and other policy makers grapple with how to combat addiction, which has afflicted rural, suburban and urban parts of the state.

The Democratic Rural Conference drew nearly all of New York State's major Democratic elected officials to its 2018 annual meeting, with Governor Andrew Cuomo, Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul, NYS Comptroller Tom DiNapoli, NYS Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, NYS Senate Democratic Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins and U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand leading the elected attendees.

A week that U.S. Senate Republicans had hoped would mobilize conservatives and shore up support for their measure to repeal the Affordable Care Act instead ended with eroding enthusiasm, as usually reliable Republican senators from red states blanched at its impact on rural communities.

This CAF money will be used in conjunction with existing state resources to fund certain areas of Round 3 of the New NY Broadband Program, which will bring high - speed internet services to New York's most unserved rural areas.

These federal funds combined with additional state funds will give our rural communities in Upstate New York greater access to the resources they need to get online and stay competitive in our digital economy, and I was proud to fight for this investment.»

Senate President Malcolm Smith sat down with Liz Benjamin at the Democratic Rural Conference to talk about the party's chances of holding onto the state senate, and the future of one of the conference's most controversial members — Pedro Espada Jr..

Hmm... I looked at some of the demographic breakdowns... I'm starting to think that some of the polling may be oversampling Democrats in rural upstate — considering how well it correlates with the rest of the state and that it generally would lean significantly further to the right than the state as a whole.

It's worth noting that, compared with other rural states, Vermont derives a lot of its economy from tourism, niche agriculture, and handicrafts.

A rural community grapples with the supply - side of the United States» problem with pills.

With fewer state lawmakers representing rural districts, issues important to rural areas may go unheard.

He also said that NESP helps to improve energy access in rural Nigeria using clean technologies, in collaboration with 5 pilot states (Sokoto, Niger, Ogun, Cross River and Plateau).

Meanwhile Michael Gove has been named Secretary of State for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, with pressure to reduce poor air quality in many towns and cities among his immediate priorities.

Department For Environment, Food And Rural Affairs Minister of state - Jane Kennedy Minister of state - Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (jointly with Department of Energy and Climate Change); and deputy leader of the House of Lords Parliamentary under secretary of state - Huw Irranca - Davies

Department of Energy and Climate Change Minister of state - Mike O'Brien Minister of state - Lord Hunt of Kings Heath (jointly with Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs); and Deputy leader of the House of Lords Parliamentary under secretary of state - Joan Ruddock

«Many folks in rural parts of New York state and in suburban parts of New York state feel that this law — along with many other laws we pass here --(is) New York City, it's Albany telling the rest of the state how they have to live their lives,» said Senate sponsor Rob Ortt, R - Niagara County.

They say they've already cut back and laid off and that a cap would erode arts, sports and special programs, and hurt poorer and rural districts, which are more dependent on state aid than rich ones with greater property wealth.

Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul visited a summer meal site in Elmira Thursday to talk up state support for such efforts, but programs in rural areas, lilke Chemung County, still struggle with a big challenge.

Poloncarz added, «As I've said many times, our county is actually like a small state with urban, suburban and rural areas and a population that is equal to that of five states.

He has defended his views on gun rights, saying firearm ownership in rural states like his is largely associated with hunting, and he understands gun violence is a separate issue altogether in urban America.

Dramatically behind in public polls, Lhota needs to tend to Republican Party faithful while trying to find an opening with City voters whose views differ markedly from the suburban / rural dominated state Republican Party.

Rural schools in Upstate New York are struggling with rapid declines in enrollment and increasing poverty, according to a report released by the state Association of School Business Officials.

With heroin abuse raging among young adults and in rural communities, New York's senior senator is calling for a new state - wide database to be created so local law enforcement agencies can better track the drug's use.

A broadband symposium organized by an upstate New York Congressman brought concerned residents and community leaders together with experts from state and federal government to discuss expanding high - speed internet in rural towns.