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    8 DAYS AFTER 9-11: At a Buddhist Retreat in the West Virginia Hills

    September 11, 2024 /

    Eight days after the frightening, world-shaking events of 9-11 in the year 2001, I was at a long-scheduled retreat at a Buddhist monastery deep in the West Virginia hills. Osama bin Laden was there, also.

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  • NewsoftheDay,  Q-and-A,  Stories

    Q&A: How “The Coal Trap” led to West Virginia’s “lost decade” in clean energy

    October 29, 2022 /

    How West Virginia got stuck in "The Coal Trap" — and missed out for ten years on the clean energy revolution — is a story worth a book. How the state might get out of the trap” A Q-and-A with the author of that book.

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  • NewsoftheDay,  Stories

    ‘KEEP THE DOOR CLOSED’: Inside the chaotic week when West Virginia Republicans’ efforts to ban abortion stalled

    August 9, 2022 /

    “I can’t hear,” Senate President Craig Blair repeated from his dais. The body had just passed a bill that would ban nearly all abortions in West Virginia. The remaining pro-abortion rights protesters had packed themselves into the hallway beside the chamber in their 10th straight hour of demonstrations. “No justice! No peace!”

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  • Climate,  NewsoftheDay,  Stories

    10 Things to Say About Joe Manchin After He Kills Off Biden’s Climate Initiatives for Good

    July 15, 2022 /

    Has WV Sen. Joe Manchin finally locked his legacy into place as the guy who doomed the planet to an existential climate crisis just because he could?

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  • Editorial,  NewsoftheDay,  Stories

    INTRODUCTION: Is Joe Manchin the Anti-Byrd?

    June 8, 2022 /

    However complicated his life, Robert C. Byrd left a legacy of accomplishment that benefited the state and nation. His career's end game also set the example of what a senator looks like when they object when America runs off the rails. So, a key question about Joseph Manchin III: Is he the Anti-Byrd?

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  • First/Person,  NewsoftheDay,  Stories

    FIRST/PERSON: Traveling West Virginia’s backroads in the Byrdmobile

    June 8, 2022 /

    "I once worked for a man who had been an Exalted Cyclops in the Ku Klux Klan — and I’m proud of it. Not because he was a Klan member more than three-quarters of a century ago, but because of what he became afterward ..."

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  • Editorial,  NewsoftheDay,  Stories

    MANCHIN/BYRD COMMENTARY: The word inside of West Virginia

    June 8, 2022 /

    “Assuming Manchin does not come home to his party on Build Back Better, voting rights, and Roe (a safe assumption at this point), he’ll have lost many more votes on his left side than he could ever hope to pick up on his right … If he doesn’t come back to his own party in really stunning fashion soon, you can expect Joe Manchin will be driving his Maserati to K street, instead of the Capitol, come 2025 ..."

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    ‘HERO OF THE OPEN HEART’: A WV native’s global humanitarian life showcased in documentary

    May 27, 2022 /

    When "The Wake Up Call" make its West Virginia debut June 23, 2022 in the state's capital city, the documentary will train a lingering spotlight on a remarkable global humanitarian life which ranged far beyond the Appalachian hills where Dave Evans was born.

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    A native Russian classical guitarist strums up a Ukraine benefit

    May 27, 2022 /

    A Russian classical guitarist, newly christened an American citizen and living in West Virginia, hosts a June 1 benefit for Ukraine, as he works passionately to counter an invasion he abhors.

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  • Essay,  NewsoftheDay,  Stories

    How the Russian army helped to nationalize my country of Ukraine

    May 26, 2022 /

    A Ukrainian exchange student who studied in Charleston WV, reflects upon the devastation he finds all around him and his family in Mariupol after the Russian invasion of his homeland.

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    The heart-rending and oligarchic view from ‘Coal Country’

    May 13, 2022 /

    The incendiary, heartbreaking "Coal Country," a play drawn from interviews with survivors and family members of the deadly 2010 Upper Big Branch Mine disaster in West Virginia, made a splash Off-Broadway. Here's a reaction to its staging for the first time in the Mountain State, 35 miles from where the tragedy fueled by corporate malfeasance that killed 29 miners occurred.

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    FIRST/PERSON: On the streets in “the capital of pain”

    May 3, 2022 /

    There are mayapples unfurling on the banks of the Kanawha River in the darkness of West Virginia's capital city. There are humans sleeping there, too, on this cold and rainy April night, and we are among them.

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    A West Virginia hero’s life to be showcased June 23 at 2022 FestivALL Charleston

    March 30, 2022 /

    "The Wake Up Call," a documentary about the remarkable and heroic international life of West Virginia native Dave Evans, will be screened Thursday, June 23, 2022, in West Virginia's capital city as part of the citywide FestivALL Charleston 2022.

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  • Books,  NewsoftheDay,  Stories

    Many Fights, One Big Fight

    March 30, 2022 /

    A new history of Local 1199 chronicles the history of a small, respected union that represents the overlooked and previously unrepresented workers of Local 1199. The book conveys the human longing for fairness within an often heartless industry.

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  • NewsoftheDay,  Stories

    The barriers to Black West Virginians getting the mental health care they may need

    March 30, 2022 /

    barriers that impact mental health for Black West Virginians include a scarcity of Black mental health professionals and mental health resources, stigma, lack of proper mental health education, poverty, racism, substance abuse, and incarceration.

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  • NewsoftheDay,  Stories

    ‘Day 34 of Russia’s Cowardly Invasion of Ukraine’

    March 30, 2022 /

    'The Ukrainian fighting force has bested the Russians in every category. All the big bear can do is cowardly lob cruise missiles from a distance that destroy towns and kill innocent citizens.'

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  • Essay,  NewsoftheDay,  Stories

    10 Illuminated Thoughts About Life on Manchin Island

    December 23, 2021 /

    The stakes are high in WV senator Joe Manchin's Build Back Better gamesmanship. What happens now that he blew up negotiations — and now it looks like they're coming back together?

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  • NewsoftheDay,  Stories

    Multifest still a beacon of the need for the Black press

    December 10, 2021 /

    Like many injustices Black newspapers fought head-on, solutions arose only when the Black press first drew attention to them. A look at the West Virginia Beacon Digest and the Charleston Sternwheel Regatta.

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  • Books,  NewsoftheDay,  Stories

    ‘Desperate’ highlights fight for clean water in West Virginia coalfields

    December 10, 2021 /

    The fight for clean water is central to "Desperate," which tells the story of coal mining communities in southern West Virginia battling Massey Energy and Don Blankenship, for clean water.

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  • NewsoftheDay,  Stories

    How West Virginia’s new vaccine law opens the door wider to politicizing public health

    December 10, 2021 /

    Beginning January 2022, it will be significantly easier for West Virginians to claim exemptions from employer COVID-19 vaccination mandates. That raises all sorts of red flags.

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