Coal | Coal
Nov.25.2008
posted on Huffington Post/Grist, November 25, 2008
Dear Al Gore,
Two months ago at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York, you declared that, "If you're a young person looking at the future of this planet and looking at what is being done right now, and not done, I believe we have...
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Nov.03.2008
Hold on to your electric bill ... Barack Obama is at it again. I can not believe that these truthful revelations from Barack Obama may have some who voted early asking, CAN I HAVE MY VOTE BACK?
Imagine if John McCain had whispered somewhere that he was willing to bankrupt a major industry? Would...
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Oct.20.2008
posted on CNN, October 7, 2008
The Wall Street crisis notwithstanding, coal continues to embroil the presidential campaign into knots unlike any other issue in the swing states of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia.
Take a look at the backflips by both campaigns in the last...
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May.21.2008
They Came Down From These Hills and Made HistoryBy JEFF BIGGERSChronicle of Higher Education, May 23, 2008After speaking at 30 universities in Appalachia and across the countryover the last couple of years, I have learned two things for sure.First, while some of the icons and milestones of the...
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Mar.02.2008
Washington Post, March 2, 2008
Every time I hear our political leaders talk about "clean coal," I think about Burl, an irascible old coal miner in West Virginia. After 35 years underground, he struggled to conjure enough breath to match his storytelling verve, as if the iron hoops of a...
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Jan.30.2008
posted on Huffington Post / January 29, 2008
"I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me." --Carter Woodson
As schools, communities and politicians across the country celebrate Black History Month in February, they will be remiss if their lessons don't include the coal fields...
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