Rural advocates and political leaders respond to USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue’s announcement that he will eliminate the undersecretary position that oversees programs for rural housing, broadband, electricity, water treatment and other services. The other shoe dropped last week when Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said he plans to eliminate the leadership […]
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A West Virginia reporter was arrested at the state Capitol Tuesday before a meeting held by U.S. Health and Human Services Sec. Tom Price. Dan Heyman of the Public News Service was charged with a misdemeanor offense of willfully disrupting a governmental process. According to a complaint filed in Kanawha […]
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At a moment when food aid agencies are working to provide healthier food to the poor and the elderly, President Donald Trump has proposed a 21 percent cut in funding for the agriculture programs that support them. It’s a move that advocates say is bad for people who need food […]
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America’s coal industry is sinking sadly. Tonnage, usually above 1 billion, dropped to 749 million tons in 2016. Employment, which exceeded 800,000 in the 1920s, has fallen below 66,000. Four large mining corporations went bankrupt in the past couple of years. The decline is glaringly visible in my West Virginia. […]
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I treat him like I treat my own brother — Spencer Jenkins What do you want people to know when they see your picture? Spencer Jenkins: We work hard, and people appreciate us for bringing their beer to ’em. I mean it ain’t an easy job. People think it is, but […]
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