Mar 1 Health Serving Survivors: In Rural States, Telemedicine Brings Treatment For Sexual Abuse Gillette, Wyoming, isn’t the kind of place you just happen to come across. “It’s about a four hour drive through vast, unimpacted, wide, sweeping plains,” said Matt Gray, a professor at University of Wyoming in Laramie, explaining the trek from his office to his clients. Plains, he said, “and lots and lots of antelope.” For […] By Mary Meehan Mar 1 Health Serving Survivors: In Rural States, Telemedicine Brings Treatment For Sexual Abuse Mary Meehan
Mar 1 Energy & Environment Defendant Wants To Change Plea In Kentucky Coal Dust Fraud Case One of the Kentucky mine workers charged in a coal dust fraud case last year wants to change his “not guilty” plea to “guilty,” a possible indication that the defendant will cooperate with prosecutors in the case. Court documents show defendant Ron Ivy, a former employee of Armstrong Coal, is scheduled to change his plea […] By Becca Schimmel Mar 1 Energy & Environment Defendant Wants To Change Plea In Kentucky Coal Dust Fraud Case Becca Schimmel
Feb 27 Energy & Environment Federal Prosecutor Adds Charges In Kentucky Coal Dust Fraud Case A federal prosecutor announced new charges against a senior coal company official for conspiring to falsify the required monitoring of coal dust. The case comes amid a surge in cases of black lung disease and widespread allegations from miners that cheating on dust monitors is common in the mining industry. Western Kentucky District U.S. Attorney […] By Becca Schimmel Feb 27 Energy & Environment Federal Prosecutor Adds Charges In Kentucky Coal Dust Fraud Case Becca Schimmel
Feb 26 Economy Rural Broadband Funding Could Connect More Ohio Valley Communities To High-Speed Internet Vivian Livingood is the mayor of Gilbert, a southern West Virginia town of under 500 people that has struggled for years without reliable internet. Livingood said that hampers Gilbert’s tourism, businesses and schools. “We get kicked off the internet here every two minutes, and that’s if we can afford the internet,” Livingood said. “And it’s […] By Liam Niemeyer Feb 26 Economy Rural Broadband Funding Could Connect More Ohio Valley Communities To High-Speed Internet Liam Niemeyer
Feb 22 Resource Shift 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 Resource Shift Inventor, Businessman, Activist: The Remarkable Life Of Ohio Valley Native Garrett Morgan Sydney Boles
Feb 21 Economy New ARC Grants Combine Economic Recovery And Addiction Recovery The Appalachian Regional Commission announced Thursday another $22.8 million in funding to 33 projects aimed at revitalizing economies in places affected by the decline in the coal industry. The awards are the latest in the ARC’s POWER Initiative, an acronym for Partnerships for Opportunity and Workforce and Economic Revitalization. Congress has funded the initiative for […] By Jeff Young and Becca Schimmel Feb 21 Economy New ARC Grants Combine Economic Recovery And Addiction Recovery Jeff Young and Becca Schimmel
Feb 20 Energy & Environment West Virginia Coal Miners Rally For Black Lung Legislation Miners and advocates rallied Wednesday at the West Virginia Capitol in support of a series of bills aimed at preventing and treating severe black lung disease. Five bills introduced by lawmakers would make it easier to make qualify for state benefits and provide benefits to miners who have early-stage black lung. The bills come at […] By Brittany Patterson Feb 20 Energy & Environment West Virginia Coal Miners Rally For Black Lung Legislation Brittany Patterson
Feb 19 Economy Kentucky Project’s Demise Linked to International Fallout From Journalist’s Murder When battery manufacturer EnerBlu announced it would suspend plans for a new factory in Pikeville, Kentucky, the company used an intriguing phrase. “Unexpected geopolitical factors,” the company said, had soured the deal. According to a former executive at the company, those factors tied the rural eastern Kentucky development project to one of the world’s […] By Sydney Boles Feb 19 Economy Kentucky Project’s Demise Linked to International Fallout From Journalist’s Murder Sydney Boles
Feb 15 Health As Opioid Crisis Affects A New Generation, Experts Study Long-Term Effects Of Prenatal Exposure Sue Meeks has worked with children for years as a registered nurse. Meeks manages the family navigator program at Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine in Athens, Ohio. Several years ago, she started noticing three and four-year-olds coming into the program with certain distinctive behaviors. “Children that appear to be neurologically very overstimulated,” she […] By Aaron Payne Feb 15 Health As Opioid Crisis Affects A New Generation, Experts Study Long-Term Effects Of Prenatal Exposure Aaron Payne