Amber Bjornsson says she had a “true heart change” while serving a two-year prison sentence for the years of fines and felonies she previously collected. Once her sentence was complete, Bjornsson moved into a recovery home. As Bjornsson returned to life outside of incarceration, she started to see the full […]
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“’These people are all crooks and perverts,’ she told me. ‘All they want is money.’” – J.D.Vance quoting Mamaw I have always wanted a nemesis. When I saw him in my mind’s eye, I could make him out. He would be rich and white, a self-aggrandizing elitist with a “rising […]
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Name a significant event in West Virginia over the last three decades. There’s a good chance Steven Rotsch was there. He was on the scene at two major mine disasters. He was front and center at seven gubernatorial inaugurations. He was there for nearly every major natural disaster. He met […]
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The article was originally published by the Ohio Valley ReSource. President Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan contains tens of billions of dollars to address environmental and economic issues throughout the Ohio Valley region, according to details released Wednesday by the White House. Biden’s predecessor, Donald Trump, had promised a major infrastructure initiative, […]
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When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention introduced its Pregnancy Mortality Surveillance System in 1987, the number of pregnancy-related deaths per 100,000 live births in the U.S. was 7.2. In 2017, that number stood at 17.3. The CDC acknowledges that the reasons for the increase in documented pregnancy-related deaths […]
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This article was originally published by Ohio Valley ReSource. The COVID-19 pandemic is continuing to cripple the economy in the Ohio Valley and President Joe Biden and Congressional Democrats are pursuing his plan for economic recovery. Biden’s economic priorities include raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour, forgiving student loan […]
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