In the early morning hours of April 7th, 2001, a familiar scene was being played out in the Over-The-Rhine neighborhood of Cincinnati. A 19-year old black man, Timothy Thomas, was walking past a nightclub called “The Warehouse” when he was… Read More ›
The diehards always show up first. Go to any protest or march and odds are you’ll see them before you see anyone else. They’re there before the cops and before the media and before the organizers themselves. All you have… Read More ›
Ask a random West Virginian over the age of 55 who the greatest President of their lifetime was and I’d bet you whatever money I had in my wallet that they’d tell you it was Jack Kennedy. Hell, ask their… Read More ›
After Freedom Industries so kindly donated 10,000 gallons of Crude MCHM and PPH into the Elk River last month, tainting the water supply for more than 300,000 West Virginians, Governor Earl Ray Tomblin made it perfectly clear that the coal… Read More ›
When it came out last week that an environmental scientist from Marshall University had found abnormal levels of Formaldehyde in a local water sample, I pretty much lost it. I suppose if I had received this news in a vacuum… Read More ›
It was over 177 years ago that Daniel Webster, the longstanding Senator from Massachusetts and perhaps the greatest orator our Nation’s legislative branch has ever known, appeared in the small town of Madison, Indiana to give a speech concerning the… Read More ›
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! I GIVE YOU THE 1ST INAUGURAL MOUNTAINEER BAD BEARD-OFF FOR CLEAN WATER SUGARLESS GUMMI BEAR EAT-OFF! FOR EVERY 5 DOLLARS YOU DONATE TO HELP PROVIDE CLEAN DRINKING AND BATHING WATER FOR THE PEOPLE OF WEST VIRGINIA,… Read More ›
As of right now, there are only two things in this world that I am absolutely sure of: The first is that hundreds of thousands of West Virginians are currently suffering the effects of a massive chemical spill that has… Read More ›
It’s the steely-eyed gaze of a suspicious everyman glaring at you from an electronic billboard or the ominously solitary backpack emblazoned on the side of a city bus. Anyone who has used public transit or walked through an airport terminal… Read More ›
It all starts with the cough. Well, the cough and maybe a bit of that rust colored sputum that comes up from the ass end of your lungs every now and again. There’s not much to talk about, because half… Read More ›
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