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By Betty Dotson-Lewis
Deer hunting dominates the Mountain State this time of year. Sharpshooters are targeting hunger as well as big bucks.Arts and Culture | Cool Places | Main Street Economics
11/21/2008
Betty Dotson-Lewis looks at how coal camp life and union-busting business practices left a seam of racism behind.BioFuels and Energy | Environment
10/22/2008
A West Virginian rests easier. Whoever wins the presidency, the days of mountaintop-removal coal mining are numbered.
When a West Virginia coal company declared bankruptcy four years ago, throwing hundreds of miners out of work, the whole community changed. Now the mine's reopened with non-union labor. Candidates, come on down! Growth and Development | Politics and Government
09/25/2008
In parts of West Virginia, and throughout the nation, you'd never know the War on Poverty was declared. After 44 years, it still needs fighting.
Strip-mining destroys trees and pollutes streams. But what if it disturbs the dead? A miner risks his job to organize an Appalachian community.
The first federal law to eradicate black lung was passed nearly 40 years ago. But a doctor who treats the disease says he sees black lung now in younger and younger miners.
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