Story Tools  E-mail Story  Print Friendly Featured Jobs Featured Jobs Feature Your Jobs: call 823-4444 New Mexico Around New Mexico Fleeing Suspect Crashes; 1 Dead At Their Fingertips Servitude Charges Refuted Herpes Threatens New Mexico Horses Memorial Day Closures Film Program: Take Two New Director Named for Los Alamos Lab Wife Takes Controls of Husband's Plane Data on Crashes To Determine Patrols Roswell Teen's Murder Trial Slated July 26 Two People Shot To Death April 16 Around New Mexico Candidate Proposal Upsets Sandoval GOP State Overhauls Film Industry Loan Program Trestle Not Ready for Opening Martinez, Wilson Rub Elbows at Economic Forum Columbus Trustee Still Getting Paid Applicants Sought for Court of Appeals 'Mindset' Faulted in Copter Crash More New Mexico

    

          Front Page  news  state

Wednesday, July 01, 2009

Obama Team Members on Summer Rural Tour


Associated Press
      WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is dispatching top administration officials and Cabinet members on a "rural tour" this summer to explore ways to strengthen rural America.
    The tour starts today in Wattsburg, Pa., where Vice President Joe Biden, Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will discuss rural broadband service.
    The White House says other events will be held in Alaska, Louisiana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Virginia and Wisconsin. In addition, Vilsack will hold "listening sessions" in other states with local and state elected officials.
    Obama says "a healthy American economy depends on a prosperous rural America."

Copyright ©2009 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

You also can send comments via our comment form