Tag: Politics

Fact-Checking Trump’s Claim In Pa. That He’s ‘Putting Our Great Coal Miners Back To Work’

President Donald Trump returned to Pennsylvania on Tuesday for the first time since his COVID-19 hospitalization and told supporters at a rally in Johnstown that he’d revived the nation’s struggling coal mining industry.  “We’re putting our great coal miners back to work,” Trump said.  We wondered whether the president fulfilled a campaign promise he […]

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Did 780 Million Opioid Pills, Or 421 Pills For Every Resident, Flow Into West Virginia? Basically, Yes.

The opioid epidemic has raged across the United States in recent years, but it has affected West Virginia more severely than most states. In 2018, the most recent year for which data is available, West Virginia ranked second only to Vermont in per capita overdose deaths from heroin and first in deaths from synthetic opioids. […]

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Why Do Nonwhite Georgia Voters Have to Wait in Line for Hours? Their Numbers Have Soared, and Their Polling Places Have Dwindled.

The state’s voter rolls have grown by nearly 2 million since the U.S. Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act in 2013, but polling locations have been cut by almost 10 percent, with Metro Atlanta hit particularly hard. Kathy spotted the long line of voters as she pulled into the […]

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