The “Bundy Sniper” photos were stark and disorienting, like wartime images from a Third World hot zone, not a blocked-off interstate highway one hour from Las Vegas. In one of the photos, a lariat-thin white man in a heavy beard and tactical jacket lies belly flat on the concrete, his […]

In her new book “Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors And The Drug Company That Addicted America,” journalist-turned-author Beth Macy claims central Appalachia as the birthplace of the modern opioid epidemic. If anyone can make that claim, Macy can. Thirty years ago, she worked as a beat reporter for The Roanoke Times, southwest […]