What policies should a senator representing Appalachia push for? One notorious corporate senator demands subsidies for banks, not working people.
Poll: What policies would you dump?
The HOLLER Heard ’round the World
That's what I thought I knew about Auburn, WV, from my research: there would be infrastructure issues. So I had expectations of what I'd probably hear. But sometimes your expectations are just WRONG.
WV’s State of the State: More Manure from Jim Justice
Jim Justice particularly seems to think his position is equivalent to that of glorified gubernatorial prop comic: cow patties, flashing lights, hatchet, and tackle box are all on hand for the show.
Plans to help regular people? Not so much.
Rural Sacrifice Zones: You have to crack a few eggs
Tax money was used to subsidize the destruction of a WV community's clean water so coal execs could further enrich themselves. Then the people who live in that community pay water bills from now unto eternity.
Why Ritchie County said NO to the Justice Road Bond
Ritchie isn't the only county that sees no funds from the bond. The vast majority of rural counties will get no fixes, see no jobs, have no improvement in infrastructure. But here in Ritchie, perhaps we're just more painfully aware of it...
Generations in the Hills and Hollers
Those who stand to make millions of dollars by driving out future generations have millions of rationalizations.
Rigged to Sacrifice Regular People
Governor Justice's administration is jamming through the Antero Frackwaste dump, that will threaten so many families with the same sort of future that Minden, WV, is experiencing right now.
Seven Years Without Water
People are without water, and our representatives are blind to them.
Is a lack of potable, running water really something that citizens of the United States, folks who live right here in the richest country in the world, should be having to fight for, all alone?
West Virginia Deserves Better: the False Dichotomy
How in the world can we transition to a sustainable economy if we don't invest in helping our actual people?
CTA: Say THANK YOU to Senate Dems for standing up for the Middle Class
Why should WE be told to hand our money over to millionaires? Tell the WV Senators who voted for us THANK YOU---and keep at it!
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