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🔈#457SEO: Drugs and Tattoos
Dr. Joe Gay recently retired from his position as Executive Director of Health Recovery Services. He still plans to work on combating the opioid addiction crisis in our region. But… Read More
Opioids On Trial: Can Lawsuits Help Fix The Addiction Crisis?
When health care and law enforcement officials met recently at a health policy forum in Lexington, Kentucky, to share ideas about the opioid crisis, Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear listed… Read More
The New Normal: Super-Storms Highlight Importance Of Disaster Planning
Harvey. Irma. Maria. The hurricane season’s super-charged storms have highlighted the importance of disaster planning, and the aftermath offers a fresh lesson in just how long and difficult recovery can… Read More
The Big Latch: Rising Breast-feeding Rates Could Boost Region’s Health
Edwin Hall is dressed in a footed onsie covered in the pastel shades of monkeys and hippos. Although Edwin’s just seven weeks old he already tells his mom when he’s… Read More
Trouble In The Air: Herbicide Blamed For Crop Damage
Jacob Goodman drove toward a soybean field in western Kentucky in hopes of seeing something different. Most of the 2,500 acres of soybeans his family farms here in Fulton County… Read More
Waiting For A Plan: No Action On Opioid Crisis Nearly A Month After Trump’s “Emergency”
It’s been nearly one month since President Trump told a group of reporters he was declaring the opioid crisis a national emergency. “The opioid crisis is an emergency, and I… Read More
Coal Country Tech Job Program Heads For New Round
Last summer Melissa Anderson was unemployed and trying to keep her Pike County, Kentucky, home from falling into foreclosure. “I built it,” she said. “And, you know, for me to… Read More
Coal Hard Cash: WV Governor Wants Federal Money For Eastern Coal
The country’s newest Republican governor is, like President Donald Trump, a billionaire businessman, a political outsider, and a fan of the coal industry. West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice, a former… Read More
Little River, Big Ideas: Farming Group Wades Into Clean Water Issues
In the rich land of Christian County, wheat is milled for McDonald’s biscuits, corn is turned into ethanol, and grazing cows support the state’s leading dairy. This is Kentucky’s breadbasket,… Read More
Memory Sunday: Churches Spread Alzheimer’s Awareness
The church choir in bright blue robes swayed and testified on a hot summer Sunday. Pastor Anthony Everett, in his own robe of orange and brown, preached to his “saints”… Read More
Report Reveals Contaminants In “Legal” Water
An environmental group’s new report shows a broad range of contaminants occur in many drinking water systems in the Ohio Valley, even though the water meets federal requirements. The research… Read More
Healthy Debate: What The Republican Health Bill Taught Us About Medicaid
As Congress considers repealing the Affordable Care Act, health professionals in Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia grapple with what that might mean for a region where many depend on the… Read More
Rural Broadband Access: Summit Seeks To Connect Leaders
MARIETTA – Southeast Ohio residents like Julie Pepper, don’t want to use broadband access for Netflix or gaming, as is commonly argued by those that don’t see broadband access as… Read More
Country Connection: Rural Residents Ask FCC To Improve Internet Access
More than two million people across the Ohio Valley live in areas that lack any optionfor fast and reliable internet service. This week some of them had a chance to tell… Read More
Paradise Cost: Coal, Natural Gas, And The True Price Of Power
Thanks to singer-songwriter John Prine, Paradise Fossil Plant might be the only coal-fired power plant that has a household name. “Paradise,” Prine’s 1971 ballad, drew on boyhood memories from the… Read More
Working With Addiction: A Popsicle Plant Helps To Lick The Opioid Crisis
If you’ve ever enjoyed a Budget Saver twin popsicle on a hot summer day, you can thank the employees of the Ziegenfelder frozen treat factory in Wheeling, West Virginia. Floor… Read More
High Hop(e)s: Craft Brewing Has Farmers Betting On Hops
The acres devoted to growing hops doubled in the U.S. in just the last five years and the trade group Hop Growers of America estimates that 95 percent of that… Read More
Labor Gains: Midwifery Goes From Horseback to Hospitals
Dressed in crisp blue scrubs, Certified Nurse Midwife JoAnne Burris walks briskly, the click of her sensible clogs a counterpoint to smooth jazz in the hall. The University of Kentucky… Read More
The Struggle To Stay: Personal Stories Behind Population Loss
Editor’s Note: Parts of Appalachia are bleeding population; the 2015 U.S. Census showed West Virginia was losing population faster than any other state. There’s a palpable struggle to leave, but… Read More
Nuclear Option: Officials Hope Old Facility Can Fuel Growth
Paducah, Kentucky, is home to USEC, a Department of Energy uranium enrichment facility that operated for 50 years until being decommissioned in 2013. Just across the Ohio River lies the… Read More
Without A Net: Rural Residents Band Together For Internet Service
Nearly half of the people living in rural parts of United States don’t have access to broadband internet, the high speed connection required for common uses many of us take… Read More
Growing Hazards: Safety Rules Often Don’t Apply To Farming…
One of the Most Dangerous Jobs Jeanna Glisson has two lives: her life before August 20th, 2007, and her life after. That day is so vivid, Glisson can still hear… Read More
Trump Budget Cuts Would Hit Trump Country Hardest
The true costs of the deep cuts in President Donald Trump’s proposed budget would fall disproportionately on many of the poor and working class people in the Ohio Valley region… Read More
Death By The Numbers: Region’s Grim Statistics Heighten Health Debate
As Congress considers repealing the Affordable Care Act, health professionals in Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia grapple with what that might mean for a region where many depend on the… Read More
Mending Mining Country: Three Ways Trump Could Help Miners And Coal Communities
At a March ceremony to sign an executive order reversing Obama-era environmental regulations, coal miners were arranged on stage around President Donald Trump as he took up his pen. “You… Read More
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