Resource Shift Archives - Ohio Valley ReSource

Apr 3

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Coal Country: Can A Play About A Mine Disaster Help Bridge A National Divide?

The actors deliver their lines from a sparse stage — just a few benches around them and 29 modest lights above. For the most part they speak directly to the audience, sharing memories of the lives of husbands, sons, fathers and nephews, some of the 29 men who died on April 5, 2010, when an […]

By Jeff Young

Apr 3

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Coal Country: Can A Play About A Mine Disaster Help Bridge A National Divide?

By Jeff Young

Dec 31

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2020 Hindsight: The Ohio Valley’s Decade In Data

The year: 2009. A Senator from Illinois named Barack Obama has just made history upon taking the presidential oath of office. The national economy is at a low point in the Great Recession. And the Pittsburgh Steelers are the first NFL team to win six Super Bowls. Ten years later, as 2019 gives way to […]

By Becca Schimmel

Dec 31

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2020 Hindsight: The Ohio Valley’s Decade In Data

Becca Schimmel

Nov 1

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Text Good River: Our reporters want to hear your Ohio River stories and concerns

Text “OHIO” to 859-208-2408 to share with our seven-newsroom collaborative. Ohio Valley ReSource is teaming up with six other news organizations to cover what might be the most under-appreciated water asset in the country: the Ohio River. The Ohio River provides drinking water for five million people, and it’s a thoroughfare of business, supporting jobs […]

By Alexandra Kanik

Nov 1

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Text Good River: Our reporters want to hear your Ohio River stories and concerns

Alexandra Kanik

Feb 22

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Inventor, Businessman, Activist: The Remarkable Life Of Ohio Valley Native Garrett Morgan

On the night of July 24, 1916, a natural gas explosion near Cleveland trapped workers in a waterworks tunnel beneath Lake Erie. Rescuers sent in to recover the trapped men were themselves felled by “noxious fumes.” The Cleveland authorities knew just who to call: Garrett Morgan, an inventor who had recently given a demonstration of […]

By Sydney Boles

Feb 22

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Inventor, Businessman, Activist: The Remarkable Life Of Ohio Valley Native Garrett Morgan

Sydney Boles

Feb 12

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Coal Community Leaders Urge Congress To Include Them In Climate Action

Economic development leaders from the Ohio Valley’s coal communities used a Congressional hearing on climate change Tuesday to say that their communities must be central to conversations about climate solutions. Testifying at a House Natural Resources subcommittee hearing on climate change and energy transitions, Peter Hille, president of the Berea, Kentucky-based Mountain Association for Community […]

By Brittany Patterson

Feb 12

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Coal Community Leaders Urge Congress To Include Them In Climate Action

Brittany Patterson

Dec 18

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Data Dives And Shoe Leather: How NPR’s Howard Berkes Investigated Appalachia’s Black Lung Epidemic

NPR is reporting that more than two thousand coal miners are now suffering from the most severe form of black lung disease, Progressive Massive Fibrosis, or PMF. And despite clear warnings, investigative reporter Howard Berkes shows, the mining industry and government regulators did little to stop it. Data loom large in this story: Berkes took a […]

By Jeff Young

Dec 18

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Data Dives And Shoe Leather: How NPR’s Howard Berkes Investigated Appalachia’s Black Lung Epidemic

Jeff Young

Nov 13

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Fatal Flaws: A Teenager Dies On The Job. His Family’s Work Begins

A prosecutor thought Grant Oakley’s workplace death might be grounds for a homicide charge. He turned to the state investigation for proof, and was shocked and frustrated at what he saw. Read this story, part of the series Fatal Flaws, an investigation by the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting, the Ohio Valley ReSource, and The […]

By Jeff Young

Nov 13

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Fatal Flaws: A Teenager Dies On The Job. His Family’s Work Begins

Jeff Young

Nov 12

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Fatal Flaws: How Kentucky Is Failing Its Workers

A review of records shows Kentucky’s worker safety agency failed to properly investigate nearly every workplace death over a two-year period.

By Jeff Young

Nov 12

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Fatal Flaws: How Kentucky Fails Its Workers

Jeff Young

Nov 7

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A Data Dive Into The Ohio Valley Midterm Election Results

The “Blue Wave” that broke in some midterm races around the country hit a “Red Wall” in the Ohio Valley, and while the Democrats will take control of the House in Washington, the partisan makeup of the Congressional delegations for Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia remains unchanged. In the region’s two Senate races, Democrats managed […]

By Jeff Young and Alexandra Kanik

Nov 7

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A Data Dive Into The Ohio Valley Midterm Election Results

Jeff Young and Alexandra Kanik

Jul 6

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Kids First: Teachers Put Immigration Politics Aside To Focus On Migrant Students

“Be brave, have fun,” Jennie Boggess instructs as she leads a room full of young students at Camp Curiosity, hosted by the Daviess County, Kentucky, Public Schools. Boggess is the development director for the Owensboro Dance Theatre and today she is preparing students for a finale performance to cap the four-week summer camp. “The idea […]

By Nicole Erwin

Jul 6

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Kids First: Teachers Put Immigration Politics Aside To Focus On Migrant Students

Nicole Erwin