We continue to tell the stories of our region, with an eye toward deeply-reported modern-day stories of Appalachia’s challenges and triumphs. And if you’re a writer or journalist in the region, we want to hear from you.
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Tag: Community
Big Tech Comes to Tucker County, WV
Local officials say a new power plant proposal is clearly meant to support data centers. And these promises of economic development are all too familiar in a region where extractive industries have come at a significant cost to people, communities and a healthy environment.
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In West Virginia’s Southern Coalfields, a Grassroots ‘Jubilee’
Davis and Ware want to use the church that once divided McDowell County into miners and management to reclaim what has been taken from them.
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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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100 Days Hiring RFA Reporter to Cover Religion in Appalachia
Upon 100 Days’ founding nearly five years ago, we created for ourselves a set of verticals that, despite the vastness and diversity of our region, speak to who we are as a people. Among those was religion. The commonality of deep faith spans organized religions here and often defines our […]
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Our Top Staff-Picked Stories of 2021
As 2021 comes to a close, our staff has been reflecting on which stories impacted them this past year. From Chris Jones’ firsthand experience at the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol to the longterm impacts of COVID-19 told from the perspective of a 6th grader in Alabama, this […]
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