Job-spurring grants in Appalachia are targeted in Trump’s budget. Here’s what is on the line

By Emma Copley Eisenberg / March 22, 2017

In 2015, Cassidy Wright-Hubbard was a seventeen-year-old sophomore at Southeast […]

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Progressives need more than Bernie Sanders in McDowell Co., West Virginia to win

By Justin Snead / March 21, 2017

It is becoming an article of faith among the progressive […]

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Still fighting 100-year-old pollution, some worry it could get worse.

By Nancy Andrews / March 20, 2017

  Environmentalism is a bad word, but we’re just trying […]

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Muslim convert bridges divide between Christians and Muslims in Appalachia

By Dana Coester / March 20, 2017

  Bob Jones is a sixth generation West Virginian and a Muslim […]

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Roger May: Despite turbulent times, ‘I couldn’t not come back’ home to West Virginia

By Roger May / March 20, 2017

I moved back home to West Virginia at the end […]

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82-year-old truck driver: ‘got to be doing something’

By Nancy Andrews / March 17, 2017

“I’ve tried to retire a couple of times, but I’ve […]

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The biggest loser under ‘Trumpcare’? Rural women

By Emma Copley Eisenberg / March 16, 2017

The Republican healthcare proposal has rural women in the crosshairs […]

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Even coal industry leaders are skeptical of rolling back mine safety standards in West Virginia and Kentucky

By Glynis Board / March 16, 2017

Lawmakers in both Kentucky and West Virginia are working to […]

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‘The Blues came out the hills and went to the Delta’

By Nancy Andrews / March 15, 2017

“I let my fingers do the walking and the strings […]

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