‘The Blues came out the hills and went to the Delta’
“I let my fingers do the walking and the strings do the talking.” Leo ‘Bud’ Welch: When I’d be playing, I be playing from my heart — not from my skin, or from my body, but from my heart. I don’t […]
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This 16-year-old and her family are fighting to save a scientific icon in West Virginia
Nestled in the hills in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, is the Green Bank Telescope. At 485 feet tall and about 300 feet across, it’s the largest fully-steerable telescope in the world, and it belongs to Green Bank Observatory. Since the observatory […]
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Elizabeth Catte: Resisting Myths of Whiteness in Appalachia
Hours after President Trump announced his sweeping immigration ban, conservative social media began to circulate press photos of Kentuckians taken during Johnson’s War on Poverty campaign as a form of support. If the connection wasn’t immediately clear, the photographs’ superimposed […]
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After Obamacare: Ending Affordable Care Act could cut addiction treatment
On a recent gray winter morning Tomas Green drove the rain slick streets of Ranson in West Virginia’s Eastern Panhandle. No matter the weather, Green helps transport clients working through addiction at the Jefferson Day Report Center get to their […]
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McDowell as a microcosm: Bernie Sanders goes ‘All In’ with Chris Hayes on rural issues
Despite hailing from Vermont, former Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie Sanders attempted to shine a light on poverty in middle America this weekend with a stop in West Virginia. Sanders held a town hall in McDowell County for an MSNBC […]
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From the Editor: “We’ve Seen The Future, It Looks Like Young Appalachia.”
I’ve been thinking about our efforts since 2016 to collectively rewrite a different future, one where Appalachia, especially young Appalachia, is fully cognizant of the dystopia and hopeful nonetheless.
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Inside Election Night As A Student Journalist
Student journalists with The Post, an independent, award-winning, student-run news publication on Ohio University, take readers inside covering election night.
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Ahead of Elections, Gen Z West Virginians Focus On the Issues
Five West Virginians spoke to 100 Days about issues on their minds this election.
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A Church Channels Rush of Volunteers and Donations in Roan Mountain Flooding Aftermath
The First Baptist Church in Roan Mountain, TN was devastated by a flood nearly thirty years ago. This time around, they knew they could help.
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Kentucky’s Amendment 2 is a radical redistribution of wealth from the poorest schools to the richest schools.
Of the many culture shocks I experienced moving from Ohio to the remote eastern Kentucky county of around 10,000 people […]
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A Political Power Play Overruled West Virginians in the Path of the Mountain Valley Pipeline. They Still Feel Betrayed.
In the wake of U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin promising his vote for a major climate change bill in exchange for the pipeline’s remaining permits, people in the project’s path are torn on their next steps.
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