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Coal and the Space-Time Continuum
Human beings can step up when they have to save their own rear ends. We will most likely get it together to fill the coal gap before my child is a grandmother, but not if we continue to act like coal...
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Our Way of Life
We need to talk about one thing above all others, and that is how seemingly impossible and yet absolutely necessary it is for our state to stop defining ourselves by a fading economy. I saw a quote...
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Mr. Blankenship? The call’s for you.
All told, Jeff Goodell's portrait of Blankenship is something that will linger in the reader's mind for a long time. It resonates with the old saying, "Man is not punished for sin, but by sin." … Read...
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The UBB Anniversary: The Truth is Always Respectable
If we say, either explicitly or implicitly through our responses to new information, “This is pointless and painful and you should never have told us,” what else are we saying?… Read More The UBB...
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The Long Road to the Last Goodbye (part 3)
As inelegant as it is, here I must say that not all things are wrong. There are many hard and beautiful truths in a West Virginia life that other places may never know. I am reminded of the betrayals...
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