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Trump Takes Enforcement Approach To Opioid Crisis
President Donald Trump addressed the opioid crisis affecting the Ohio Valley region in his first State of the Union address Tuesday night. “We must get much tougher on drug dealers… Read More
Farmers Fond of Trump But Growing Nervous About Trade
When President Trump spoke to the American Farm Bureau annual convention this month he focused on the regulatory rollbacks and tax cuts that motivated many farmers to help vote him… Read More
In Wake Of School Shooting, A Look At How Kids Get Guns
Heather Adams sat in a line of cars along Kentucky Route 95, cars filled with parents who had just received the call no parent wants to get: A shooting at her child’s… Read More
Trump Brought Attention But Little Money To Counter Opioid Crisis
Donald Trump told supporters on the campaign trail his plan to combat the opioid crisis. It included stopping the flow of drugs into the country, increase the penalties for drug trafficking, and… Read More
Miner Change: Trump’s Big Talk On Coal Brings Small Change in First Year
Donald Trump loves coal. He campaigned on a promise to put miners back to work and his first year in office included numerous Ohio Valley visits to highlight coal’s importance…. Read More
Changing Course: Federal Grant Fills Gaps In Rural School Funding
A group of students from South Floyd Middle School had seen the nearby elementary school suffer damage from floods year after year. When they joined the school’s newly formed engineering team,… Read More
$econd Chance: The Economic Case For Drug Treatment Over Jails
Imagine living and working somewhere designed to fit a couple hundred people. Now picture that same space crammed with twice that number. Madison County, Kentucky, Jailer Doug Thomas doesn’t have… Read More
Burned By Coal: Coalfield Communities Facing Electricity Price Hikes
One evening this past November, angry customers and public officials filled a high school auditorium in Hazard, Kentucky, and took turns pleading with three members of the state’s public service… Read More
Mine Health Expert Concerned About Review Of Coal Dust Rule
The Trump administration’s Office of Management and Budget has announced a review of an Obama-era rule that protects coal miners from exposure to the dust that causes black lung disease. That has… Read More
Top Tunes ’17: Aaron Payne
Who can believe it? Another year has come and gone, leaving but memories of records beloved past! This is an installment in an ongoing holiday season series for WOUB, in which… Read More
Rare Opportunity: Researchers See Potential In Mining Coal Waste
Throughout coal mining country of the Eastern U.S. you will find streams that run a peculiar rusty orange. It’s the result of pollution called acid mine drainage, or AMD. It’s… Read More
Changing Course: “Tiny House” Project Tackles Big Problems In Coal Country
The sound of power tools blends with teenage chatter as students clamber around, under, and over a trailer bed that they’re busy turning into a home. They’re part of a… Read More
R.I.P., CPP? Clean Energy Trend Likely To Continue Despite Trump’s Clean Power Repeal
West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey stood in front of the state’s capitol to rally the roughly 120 coal miners and industry boosters gathered there. “The fight against the unlawful… Read More
Clean Power Plan’s Repeal Gets Hearing In Coal Country
Last month the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt chose an eastern Kentucky mining town as the venue to announce his intent to repeal the Clean Power Plan, an Obama-era… Read More
Changing Course: A School Cooperative Aims To Remake Coal Communities
Betsy Layne High School serves rural Floyd County in the eastern Kentucky town of Stanville, population 206. Students there produce a video program called “Bobcat Banter” where they usually talk… Read More
Serving Those Who Served: Veterans Pantry Program Reaches Out To Hungry
Napoleon famously said that an army marches on its stomach; troops must be fed in order to fight. But what happens when that army faces hunger after marching back home?… Read More
Gutting Guest Worker Rights: Migrant Labor Bill Cuts Protections
Roberto Gonzales and six other workers came from Nayarit, Mexico, to work on a Garrard County, Kentucky, tobacco farm using a guest worker program called the H-2A visa. The Department of… Read More
Carbon Capture Reconsidered: Big-Ticket Climate Fix Gets a Fresh Look
A bipartisan group in Congress, including several Ohio Valley lawmakers, is pushing for more federal support for technology known as carbon capture and storage. The lawmakers and an uncommon alliance… Read More
Tobacco’s Toll: New Push To Stop Smoking In Country’s Sickest States
Hundreds of kids scurrying to buses are oblivious to a sign above them declaring Bourbon County High School “100 percent Tobacco Free.” But upstairs in the library, sophomore and anti-smoking… Read More
White House Commission Recommends Actions On Opioid Crisis
Roxanne Schwartz, of Lebanon, New Jersey, told a story to the President’s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis Wednesday that could easily resonate with parents in the Ohio Valley…. Read More
A BOOn From Bats: Naturalists Aim To Help Bats Fight Deadly Disease
Bats have a bit of an image problem. You probably saw some Halloween decorations this week featuring flying, fanged creatures of the night. But conservationists say bats are actually very… Read More
On Strike: Migrant Workers On Visa Program Claim Unfair Pay
Workers on a tobacco farm in Garrard County, Kentucky, are entering the third week of a strike over claims that they have not received the pay guaranteed by a federal… Read More
EPA Limits Use Of Problematic Herbicide Dicamba
The Environmental Protection Agency has agreed to some limits on the use of a controversial herbicide called dicamba, which farmers throughout the region have blamed for crop damage. A change to… Read More
Trying Times For Transit: Rural Systems Face Flat Funding And Rising Demand
Thelma Daulton goes to the salon to get her hair done at the same time every Friday. She gets picked up at her house and greeted by one of many… Read More
Coal Comfort: Trump’s EPA And Energy’s Winners And Losers
The Environmental Protection Agency’s move to end the Clean Power Plan is the Trump administration’s latest attempt to support the struggling coal industry. The Department of Energy is also pushing a new… Read More
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