Wind power, especially, is booming in rural districts in red states.
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Which rural districts in India should receive rice at subsidized prices?
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The insurgents have been busy in rural districts throughout the province.
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The law does have an exception for schools in rural districts.
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But it has Republicans and Democrats alike expressing fear for rural districts.
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Many of the most rural districts that flipped — seats now held by Reps.
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The measure is backed by three Republican state representatives who represent rural districts.
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But the high-powered interlopers can be unpopular, especially in crowded rural districts.
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This approach, says Ceglowski, doesn't work in rural districts where the money isn't there.
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The 2010 contest virtually erased the Democratic presence in small town and rural districts.
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Since taking office, he has been holding town halls in rural districts around the country.
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The challenges we face are similar, whether in small rural districts or large urban ones.
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Its members include lawmakers representing rural districts, as well as some progressive leaders like Rep.
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Roads to rural districts further north were swamped and impassable after torrential rains on Sunday.
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Many of the legislators supporting Michigan's work requirements come from rural districts with high unemployment.
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Poor and geographically isolated rural districts have historically struggled to recruit and retain qualified teachers.
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Like Republicans in the United States, Canada's opposition Conservative Party gets strong support from rural districts.
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According to the current count, Buttigieg picked up those delegates with careful overperformances across rural districts.
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"Our biggest gains were in suburbia, but we competed well in some rural districts," Heck said.
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The suburbs are encroaching on rural districts Democrats have never mounted a serious challenge to Rep.
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We have had a chance to talk to the men and women of the rural districts.
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Conservative politicians representing rural districts share his fondness for guns and his disdain for restrictive environmental rules.
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For years, those losses made Democrats reluctant to go up against the NRA, particularly in rural districts.
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The poorest are no longer confined to deprived rural districts, nor is everyone in such districts poor.
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Colorado is seeking to pass new education bills to bring teachers into some of its rural districts.
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Meanwhile, rural districts have to think about the challenges of serving students who may be geographically isolated.
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Many rural districts in Afghanistan are already fully controlled by or under the influence of the Taliban.
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By Monday, only two of the province's 113 rural districts were confirmed to be completely in government control.
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A number of big rural districts with plenty of pig farms fall within the territory of Beijing, the capital.
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And the party has identified some rural districts, and others in the industrial Midwest, as top targets for next year.
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But sometimes that data is incomplete for rural districts and makes it harder for some to qualify for the funding.
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Republicans retained their House seats in blue-collar and rural districts where President Donald Trump's aggressive talk on immigration played well.
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This combined with slipping support for the ANC in townships and rural districts to boost the DA's share of the vote.
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This is especially true in small, rural districts that offer few specialized, traditional courses for students working ahead of their grades.
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Democrats still see some plausible opportunities in blue-collar and rural districts, including Finkenauer, the Maine seat now held by Rep.
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That means Democrats from such rural districts constitute only about 15% of the Democratic caucus, less than half their level in 2009.
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But when it came down to it, McGrath beat Gray handily in the rural districts surrounding the district's main city of Lexington.
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In Congress, the state's three most rural districts are still represented by Democrats, including the 28th District, home to the Iron Range.
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Edwards's win suggests that Democrats still have the potential to win in states like Louisiana, where Republicans are increasingly dominating rural districts.
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Mr. Kaczynski's party remains in control, for now, and it has touted its tightened hold on many of the country's rural districts.
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What about rural districts, or states where the Republican plan offers far fewer tax credits than the Affordable Care Act, like Alaska?
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In rural districts with less philanthropic support than Sheridan, school leaders are still debating what to do about the computer science mandate.
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In rural districts with less philanthropic support than Sheridan, school leaders are still debating what to do about the computer science mandate.
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Oklahoma, for example, repeatedly cut taxes, leading to stagnant teacher pay, aging textbooks and a four-day school week in some rural districts.
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The numbers may be smaller in the second day event as teachers from smaller, rural districts may not be able to take part.
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Despite his losing streak, Trump may not be a millstone for all Republicans in November -- at least not in races in rural districts.
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"Certainly in suburban districts political messaging about background checks would be much more popular than some of the more rural districts," Weaver said.
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In the Midwest states, we're not likely to see any changes in the pro-Democrat urban areas and the pro-Republican rural districts.
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The graphic below shows the shift — and it shows that even the deep-red rural districts elected Republicans with smaller margins than in 2016.
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Adham Sahloul, a SAMS advocacy officer, said there have been seven attacks on hospitals in rural districts of Aleppo and Idlib provinces since Friday.
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It has claimed attacks on civilian targets in cities including Kabul and fought the Afghan Taliban for control of a number of rural districts.
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In the new Congress, Democrats will hold about 85033 percent of all suburban districts across the country, and just 19 percent of rural districts.
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The new court soon moved to block the election of four legislators from rural districts, denying the opposition a supermajority in the National Assembly.
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Democrats lost two tight House races in Minnesota in largely rural districts and the governor's race in Iowa, reaffirming Republicans' edge in those regions.
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And it would destroy farm jobs in rural districts, including those belonging to some lawmakers who claim to be considering octane standards, like Rep.
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Democrats won a majority of districts only in the most urban counties, while Republicans won two out of every three in very rural districts.
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Schriock: No. We're running women in a whole variety of districts right now across the country — some in suburban, exurban districts, some in rural districts.
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The 63-seat House Republican gain included 51 rural districts that Democrats had snatched amid the Wall Street crisis and unpopular Iraq War in 28.
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Instead, the battleground is broad, and it includes a long list of working-class and rural districts that voted for Donald J. Trump in 22016.
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It will lease each land parcel, which are located in three rural districts, to two non-profit organisations for HK$1 ($0.1284) for eight years.
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Not only is legalization unprecedentedly popular, a crackdown has grown even more unpopular — and Trump would be destroying jobs in rural districts that voted for him.
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In rural districts the authorities typically decide eligibility based on the advice of village councils, the condition of people's houses and a survey of household assets.
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Compared with larger districts, smaller and mostly rural districts were also less likely to fund emergency preparedness training for school faculty and staff or students' families.
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Perhaps the answer lies in the recent midterms, in which centrist female candidates won enough suburban and rural districts to return the House to the Democrats.
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In one incident last year, Afghan intelligence agents seized an NGO's convoy carrying medical supplies to rural districts in Kunduz province, according to the United Nations.
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Al-Shuhada marks the first advance of the army inside the built-up area of Falluja, after they entered rural districts on the outskirts last week.
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This is because the 1985 farm bill was passed by a "strange bedfellows" coalition in which urban and rural districts joined forces in pursuit of redistributive benefits.
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Because of the cuts, some rural districts have disbanded, some schools have closed and, last spring, six districts ended the school year days early to cut costs.
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That has bitten into public education: some rural districts in Oklahoma have a four-day week, and some schools are rationing paper and cutting foreign language classes.
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Kind told The Washington Post in an article published this month that there is still some doubt about the 1994 Federal Assault Weapons Ban in rural districts.
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Some Republicans from rural districts have expressed concern at congressional hearings this week about how scrapping interest deductibility would harm farmers who rely heavily on debt financing.
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When Democrats retook the House in 2018, they did so without recapturing almost any of the small-town and rural districts they had lost in those two landslides.
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But Democrats still hold some 35 rural districts of their own, and Pelosi lived through the Democratic election wipeout that followed passage of the 1994 assault weapons ban.
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"Instead, the battleground is broad, and it includes a long list of white working-class and rural districts that voted for Donald J. Trump in 2016," Cohn contends.
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Rather, Republicans will be eyeing two open seats in rural districts which might represent their best chance at turning blue seats red in the House this cycle. Rep.
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The cuts would affect the nation's largest cities and counties – Washington, D.C., Chicago, Los Angeles County and New York City – as well as already cash-strapped rural districts.
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Still, the road to Democrats' new House majority mostly ran through cities and suburbs, while Republicans held on to the vast majority of rural districts they were defending.
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In rural districts, voters who traditionally send conservative lawmakers to Parliament are talking openly about the effects of climate change — in some instances, even coming out to protest.
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Republicans flipped just a few U.S. House seats in 2018, and two of them were in Minnesota, both largely rural districts that Democrats had held firmly for years.
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All those rural districts in America's wind corridor might not be thrilled if their preferred candidate seeks to undermine one of their most important sources of economic growth.
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But, two years ago, state lawmakers agreed to give two rural districts special authorization to arm select staff — on the condition that local law enforcement does the training.
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The big picture: Republicans lost big in moderate suburban districts in the 2018 midterms and even ceded ground in deep-red rural districts that voted for Trump in 2016.
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The big picture: Republicans lost big in moderate suburban districts in the 2018 midterms, and even ceded ground in deep-red rural districts that voted for Trump in 2016.
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Not only was passage of the 1985 farm bill bipartisan (Democrats: 20143 yeas, 62 nays; Republicans: 98 yeas, 79 nays), it won support in both urban and rural districts.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had called the Green New Deal a "green dream" and some Democrats in fossil fuel-dependent or rural districts have stayed quiet on their position.
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While the battle for control of the House will be waged in large part in the suburbs, rural districts in Southern Illinois, Iowa, Arkansas and Missouri could prove important.
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Intent on undercutting Democrats' advantage in the electoral college, conservatives are pushing to give rural districts greater representation in urban states, as if the only "real" Americans are farmers.
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Telehealth should be particularly important to Members of Congress from rural districts, many of which are facing health crises related to substance abuse and lack of access to treatment.
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It began in earnest last week with troops sweeping into southern rural districts, and they entered the built-up areas of the city for the first time this week.
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In counties with big cities, where most North Carolina Democrats live, the new districts pack urban voters together while carving out separate suburban and rural districts favorable to Republicans.
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Not everyone considers school boards bad, and those who say they are bad for running large urban districts do not necessarily extend that view to suburban or rural districts.
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That program, passed as part of the 2017 tax overhaul, provides tax breaks for investment in certain urban and rural districts that are deemed in need of economic stimulus.
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But the move entailed shuttering nine facilities in rural districts across the country and potentially laying off some 2128,2300 workers — a deal-breaker even for normally supportive members of Congress.
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"Initial indications were that 1.5 million people were food-insecure with all the 60 rural districts being affected," Public Works Minister, Saviour Kasukuwere, said in a statement in early February.
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"One thing that adds to the complexity in cities is that often these megacities have a different administrative structure than rural districts...," said Nandy, an epidemiologist and public health physician.
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Among the biggest shifts is the new geography of Congress, as Democrats offset losses in less densely-populated rural districts with gains in more densely-populated urban and suburban area.
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Bustos predicts her party will take back control of the House next fall — but she said candidates need to compete in rural districts like hers if they hope to get there.
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In Nigeria's rural districts, where children start working young, a large family means a more productive farm—"like you have a tractor on it", says a driver from Mrs Okafur's neighbourhood.
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One of us represents the Mississippi Delta, one of the poorest, largely rural districts in the country, and the one that includes Marks, where the mule train is commemorated each year.
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As the representative of both one of the oldest and one of the most rural districts in the country, I know how badly this rule would affect my constituents in Maine.
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They told me that New York City has it better than many poorer, more rural districts because it operates as one big district with a wider socioeconomic range than most small districts.
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Just as 603 triggered an extended period of Republican advantage in small-town and rural districts, 2018 could do the same for Democrats in white-collar seats inside the largest metropolitan areas.
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Boucher was hardly alone: The 2010 election virtually annihilated the center-right so-called "blue dog" Democratic House members, who mostly represented preponderantly white, heavily blue-collar, small-town and rural districts.
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Several rural districts, although still much more conservative than coastal areas, have large Latino populations, which have become more politically engaged and moved toward Democrats as Republican immigration rhetoric has become harsher.
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Indeed, while progressives may be hopeful in New York, far left candidates have had plenty of defeats in rural districts where Democrats increasingly are seen as out of line with mainstream thinking.
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Some conservative lawmakers from rural districts have pushed the bureau to euthanize excess horses or sell them for slaughter, but those steps remain widely unpopular and have not gained traction in Congress.
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The Democrats' greater consensus on gun issues was evident in February, when the House passed a universal background check bill with only two Democratic legislators -- both from largely rural districts -- voting no.
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"It was wise of Secretary DeVos to change her mind and reinstate funding that poor, rural districts will need and are relying upon this year," said Sasha Pudelski, the organization's advocacy director.
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It is one of the most anticipated voting days in the lead-up to the fall midterm elections, with Republicans eager to prove they can still dominate in suburban and rural districts.
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It remains to be seen whether programs like the training offered by the National Democratic Training Committee will be able to break the grip Republicans have on rural districts in certain states.
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The first was in 2008, as the Taliban overran key rural districts, President George W. Bush "quietly surged" a couple more combat brigades — some 8,000 soldiers — into Afghanistan just before leaving office.
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Much of the state's shift in favor of Republicans has been due to rural districts moving toward conservatives, with a number of those legislative seats flipping from Democrat to Republican this cycle.
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That extended a pattern of virtual unanimity among House Democrats this year on social issues, including gun control and immigration, that earlier divided the party between its members from metropolitan and rural districts.
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Where if you drive maybe half an hour, 7003 minutes down the road, you're going to find much less fortunate, much more rural districts where they don't have the resources that we do.
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The Democrats also represent the state's largest urban areas like Houston, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, and El Paso, whereas the Republicans who voted for the bill largely represent the state's more rural districts.
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As the fighting continued, the Syrian army urged citizens in Deraa province, the Ghouta area east of Damascus, and in rural districts east of Aleppo to quickly seek out "reconciliation" with the government.
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On the other side of the debate, lawmakers from the most conservative rural districts and Republicans seeking statewide office in contested primaries opposed the new law, saying it trampled on Second Amendment rights.
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Running up big numbers in districts gerrymandered to include large numbers of voters of color, Mr. Halle said, would be less valuable than remaining viable in other rural districts filled with white voters.
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Over five school years, ending with the spring of 2016, 71 percent of rural districts in the state saw a drop in enrollment, said Sarah Kemp, a school demographer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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I'm the only one up here, time and time again—the reddest of red districts, Michele Bachmann's, I won that district three times, rural districts at the border of Iowa and North and South Dakota.
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Rural districts These contrasting responses also emerge from the flurry of district-by-district House polls published in the past few weeks by Monmouth College and The New York Times in partnership with Siena College.
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She is popular in poor and rural districts where her father is celebrated for building schools and cracking down on Shining Path guerrillas, although she faces stiff opposition from others who consider him a corrupt dictator.
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For sympathizers to the Taliban's conservative credo, especially in rural districts like Sayyidabad, in Wardak, it was a moment that allowed them to express support in a way that would ordinarily see them thrown in jail.
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The insurgents have seized more rural districts in the province, even as attention has focused on their battle for the city of Ghazni, a strategic urban center less than 100 miles from Kabul, the Afghan capital.
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But Republicans also have a rare opportunity to go on offense for House seats in Minnesota, with two open seats in rural districts that might represent their best chance at turning blue seats red this cycle. Sens.
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In neighboring rural districts, conservatives flipped two Democratic-held seats in mining country and a white, rural stripe of southern Minnesota, raising Republicans' hopes of winning Minnesota in 2020 for the first time in a half-century.
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I have found in my research that they are not college-ready because they have been failed by our tiered public education system, in which rich suburban districts fare much better than poorer urban and rural districts.
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What's known as "the homework gap" could be devastating for students who can't easily use the internet — especially in poor urban areas and rural districts where families don't have a home laptop or high-speed internet connections.
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While Democrats expect to hold a vote on the bill, the House leadership and chief proponents of the measure have had to iron out concerns from within the party's caucus, particularly from members representing more rural districts.
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Clinton did worst, and Sanders did best, in the rural districts that elect Republicans; he got close to 80 percent in the 4th District, which cuts down the middle of the state and includes the city of Yakima.
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Dense urban areas—traditionally bastions of Democratic support—are likely to be hardest hit by a pandemic, and a low-turnout, in-person, mid-pandemic election could tilt results even more in favor of more conservative rural districts.
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Given the unanimous opposition by Democrats on Friday's vote and the Democratic Party's current seat advantage in urban districts, it is unsurprising that most members from urban districts voted on the opposite side of most members from rural districts.
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The department's notifications rattled rural districts, which have come to rely on the program to supplement the costs of services that are far less accessible to rural students, like technology, mental health and guidance counselors, and full-day kindergarten.
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"Rural districts have budgeted for these resources, and the administration has given no consideration to how they will be impacted by this immediate cut to their funding," said Sasha Pudelski, the advocacy director at AASA, the School Superintendents Association.
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Instead of trying to reach an entire country, OLE Nepal has spread around 5,300 laptops across areas where OLPC's hardware still has an advantage: remote rural districts with no data networks or wired internet, accessible only through hours of hiking.
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But despite the strikes against the Afghan leaders, Nicholson also acknowledged that since February the Taliban had managed to capture five rural districts from the Afghan government while saying that Afghan troops managed to recapture all of them within 10 days.
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The meeting became contentious when two board members, Assemblyman Eduardo Garcia and the former State Senator Dean Florez, both hailing from rural districts, accused Electrify America of primarily focusing on profits, which it is entitled to earn under the Volkswagen settlement.
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Many suburban and rural districts were artfully gerrymandered by Republican state legislators after the 2010 census and have proved impenetrable since then; they aren't likely to change hands without a healthy number of recent Republican voters being persuaded to vote Democratic.
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As Ronald Brownstein pointed out in The Atlantic, changing demographics have left her with far fewer conservative Democrats from blue-collar or rural districts — Democrats who hobbled Ms. Pelosi and such previous Democratic speakers as Tom Foley and Tip O'Neill.
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In practice, the Democratic Party has been reluctant to embrace gun control as a core part of its agenda, believing that gun control costs more votes than it gains in more rural districts where Democratic candidates would be competitive otherwise.
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In a 20113 report, Diane Hirshberg, director of the Center for Alaska Education Policy Research at UAA, observed that while teacher turnover in Alaska's urban districts was consistently low, rural districts, like Yupiit, could see as high as a 52 percent turnover.
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"We've got to come up with a way to increase significantly state support for education and focus that money on the lower income districts and the more rural districts that don't have the resources they deserve to put into the schools," he said.
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While attention in the past four days has focused primarily on the fight for Ghazni city, where the Taliban appear to control most neighborhoods, the insurgents have also taken over at least four more rural districts in the province, mostly without much of a fight.
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Contenders for governorships are perfectly positioned to spell out the disastrous effects for their states of Trump-GOP eviscerations of health and social spending; they can also articulate bold, inclusive plans to promote economic innovation and growth in ways that reach into smaller cities, towns, and rural districts.
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In 2010, amid a sharp backlash against President Barack Obama, the GOP ousted dozens of House Democrats from small-town and rural districts; the casualties included many who had held their seats for decades, like Rick Boucher, the longtime Democratic representative from the 9th District who Griffith beat.
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The target of the GOP's fury is the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), a last-ditch option for communities whose aquifers have been tainted by manure that seeps into the ground and makes its way into the wells that many rural districts rely on for drinking water.
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While social issues such as gun control formerly created the most imposing divisions among Democrats, the party is achieving much greater unity on those issues as it has shed members from culturally conservative rural districts and built a different majority centered on socially liberal urban and suburban seats.
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Ben Ray Lujan, the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, told lawmakers Thursday that a serious overhaul was coming -- starting with firing some of their pollsters who whiffed on rural districts in 2016 and the potential removal of their long-time media buyer, in charge of placing their political ads.
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Chandreshwar Prasad Singh, the minister of urban development, housing and transportation in the state of Jharkhand, said in an interview that his state had blacklisted IVRCL in February because of delays in finishing projects that included laying pipelines for drinking water and putting up electrical wires in eight rural districts.
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He has completely lost the power to frighten New Yorkers with tales of crime, but in rural districts in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania the symbolic depiction of crime, crafted nationally as the great wave rose, is still a bloody shirt that can be effectively waved even if the bloodstains on it are decades old.
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He said the rural districts must balance economic growth with sustainability, and while he has pledged to control corruption and illegal permits, he also described himself as helpless against the currents of a central government that is close to the big corporations and constantly changes both the rules and the playing field.
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A team is also in place exploring more tailored help, including virtual college advisers with local knowledge, a rural-specific college application guide, outreach to counselors in rural districts and more online help (100,000 rural students have signed up for personalized SAT practice on the Khan Academy site through the College Board).
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If O'Connor can prevail in the area — which is wealthier and better-educated than the median congressional seat — it would set off another blaring alarm for Republicans as they try to defend the red-leaning, suburban and rural districts they need to hold to stop Democrats from taking control of the House.
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But the repeated unanimous, or nearly unanimous, House votes this year for key items on the party's agenda underscore how its increasing dominance of urban and suburban seats, and its diminishing reliance on culturally conservative rural districts, is allowing Democrats to minimize the divisions that plagued their earlier House majorities, particularly on social issues.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE won both of those more rural districts handily in 2016, but the Democratic incumbents had kept their seats blue.
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"There has been a lot of attention paid to the Democratic victories in suburban areas, but we find that Democratic gains were actually largest in rural areas," Ghitza wrote: These gains weren't enough to get over 50 percent and win seats in many rural districts, so they have escaped much of the mainstream election analysis to this point.
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According to a 2018 report published in the Journal of Child Nutrition & Management that focused on school meal programs in individual rural districts, some practices that were effective in successful lunch programs included reducing food prices by joining a food cooperative and employing inventive serving strategies, such as letting students choose their ingredients at a salad bar.
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Though unmentioned in the pleadings, a poorly veiled ideological concern lurked in the background (and in the intentions of Edward Blum, the conservative activist whose organisation, Project on Fair Representation, crafted the litigation): urban districts with higher concentrations of people who are not eligible to vote usually go for Democrats, while the rural districts vote rather reliably for the GOP.
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