Mary Meehan, Author at 100 Days in Appalachia

Homelessness And Health Costs: This Kentucky Mom Faced Cancer While Living In Her Car

This article was originally published by Ohio Valley ReSource. Cancer was what finally pushed Kristi Reyes into living in her car. The mother of four had...

Criminal Justice3 months ago

Kentucky Adding Prison Space to Relieve Inmate Overcrowding

This article was originally published by the Ohio Valley ReSource. Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin announced that an empty, privately-owned prison in Wheelwright, Kentucky, will soon hold...

Drug Epidemic5 months ago

HIV Infection “Clusters” Put Focus On Harm Reduction Programs

This article was originally published by Ohio Valley ReSource. Health officials in Huntington, West Virginia, say a cluster of HIV infections has grown to 71 confirmed cases. That’s...

Opioid Epidemic7 months ago

‘They Are Invisible’: Rural Homelessness, Made Worse By Opioid Crisis, Presents Special Challenges

This article was originally published by Ohio Valley ReSource. Charles “Country” Bowers takes long, quick strides down a worn dirt path and is soon in front...

Working Class10 months ago

Kentucky Called a ‘Warning Signal’ on SNAP Work Requirements

This story was originally published by the Ohio Valley ReSource. The federal government is considering a work requirement for some people who get food assistance through...

A public health crisis?1 year ago

The Vexing Vape: Officials Say Small Vaping Device Juul A Major Health Risk To Youth

A slender, black, rectangle, the Juul fits easily in the palm of your hand. You don’t light it, you trigger it with a click of a...

100 Days in Appalachia

Mary Meehan

Stories By Mary Meehan

Homelessness And Health Costs: This Kentucky Mom Faced Cancer While Living In Her Car

Kentucky Adding Prison Space to Relieve Inmate Overcrowding

HIV Infection “Clusters” Put Focus On Harm Reduction Programs

‘They Are Invisible’: Rural Homelessness, Made Worse By Opioid Crisis, Presents Special Challenges

Kentucky Called a ‘Warning Signal’ on SNAP Work Requirements

The Vexing Vape: Officials Say Small Vaping Device Juul A Major Health Risk To Youth

Commentary: What the White Debate Stage Says About Racial Equity

As Vaping Rates Escalate in Appalachia, Is Banning These Products the Answer?

Grocers In Rural Coal Country Struggle To Stay In Business

Could Appalachian Communities Survive On Their Own?

PA’s Dairy Industry Is Changing. These Family Farmers Are Innovating to Keep Up.

We Mapped out the Toxic Wastewater Discharges along the Ohio River. Here’s What We Learned.

W.Va. Hunters Return To Historical Roots

‘Stereotypes Get in the Way’ of Rural Nutrition Program

Appalachian Whiteness: A History that Never Existed

Coach Kellie: A Tiny West Virginia High School is Making Football History

Tell Us How You Feel: Sign Up for Survey on Digital Media

‘Tip Of the Spear’: As Customers Beg For Clean Water, Is a Crisis Looming In Appalachia?

Ken Burns’s ‘Country Music’ Does Little to Tell the Story of the Non-White, Non-Straight World of Country

The miner and the matriarch: Coal mining women of West Virginia

The Pendulum Effect: The science that took us from Obama to Trump

The Protesting Kentucky Coal Miners Who Stood Up and Stopped a Train