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National Media Are Platforming Domestic Extremists, Leaving Local Journalists to Deal with the Fall Out. Here’s How We Can Do Better.

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Local Economists Weigh In On Biden’s Recovery Plan for Region

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Appalachian Whiteness: A History that Never Existed

Writing about Southern Appalachia slightly more than a century ago, travel writer Horace Kephart called “[o]ur highlanders…the most…

byTimothy Pratt

November 19, 2018