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Argument over NRA T-shirt gets eighth-grader jailed. Dress code run amok?

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - Apr. 21 (Comment) - A student at a West Virginia middle school was suspended and arrested after a confrontation with a teacher over an NRA T-shirt with a picture of a rifle on it.

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What Keystone XL Opponents Could Learn From the Gay Rights Movement

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By Bill McKibben - Apr. 09 (Opinion) - This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. A few weeks ago, Time magazine called the fight over the Keystone XL pipeline that will bring some of the dirtiest energy on the planet from Alberta, Canada, to the US Gulf Coast the "Selma and Stonewall" of the climate movement. Which, if you think about it, may be both good news and bad news. Yes, those of us fighting the pipeline have mobilized record numbers of activists: the largest civil disobedience action in 30 years and 40,000 people on the mall in February for the biggest climate rally in American history. Right now, we're aiming to get a million people to send in public comments about the "environmental review" the State Department is conducting on the feasibility and advisability of building the pipeline. And there's good reason to put pressure on. After all, it's the same State Department that, as on a previous round of reviews, hired "experts" who had once worked as consultants for TransCanada, the pipeline's builder. ...

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Is the Keystone XL pipeline fight the Stonewall of climate change?

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Bill McKibben - Apr. 08 (Comment) - If decision-makers take as long to act on this issue as they did on gay rights, we will all be wearing scuba masks to rallies A few weeks ago, Time magazine called the fight over the Keystone XL pipeline that will bring some of the dirtiest energy on the planet from Alberta, Canada, to the US Gulf coast the "Selma and Stonewall" of the climate movement. Which, if you think about it, may be both good news and bad news. Yes, those of us fighting the pipeline have mobilised record numbers of activists: the largest civil disobedience action in 30 years and 40,000 people on the Mall in February for the biggest climate rally in American history. Right now, we're aiming to get a million people to send in public comments about the "environmental review" the state department is conducting on the feasibility and advisability of building the pipeline. And there's good reason to put pressure on. After all, it's the same state department that, as on a previous round of reviews, hired "experts" who had ...

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Fracking the Amish

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

Mother Jones - By Elizabeth Royte - Jan. 16 (Special Report) - A bleak December sky hangs low over rural Lawrence County, Pennsylvania. Here, in areas populated by large Amish families, open fields roll toward the horizon uninterrupted by electrical wires and telephone poles. Stepping from a car that seems grossly out of place in this 19th century landscape, Carrie Hahn, a newcomer to the area, takes a deep breath of mud and cow outside an Amish farmhouse. Suddenly, like an apparition, Andy Miller appears on a flagstone path, his face hidden beneath beard and broad-brimmed hat. He quickly ushers us inside a large, unfurnished mudroom to escape the wind. Miller, who is in his late 40s and has nine children, is a leading member of the Old Order Amish, who eschew all modern conveniences. (Like all the Amish names in this story, Miller's has been changed at his request, to respect Amish traditions and preserve his anonymity.) Standing against a western window, a silhouette of felt hat, ...

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The Caucus: Senator Rockefeller Is Said to Be Retiring

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By By JONATHAN WEISMAN - Jan. 11 (Opinion) - Senator John D. Rockefeller IV of West Virginia, the scion of the Rockefeller family who established himself as a liberal voice in Congress, is expected to announce his retirement after five terms in the Senate, Democratic officials said.

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Some Unlikely Democrats Join in Push for New Gun Laws

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Jeremy Peters, John H. Cushman Jr. - Dec. 17 (Opinion) - Senator Joe Manchin, a Democrat of West Virginia who has argued against stricter gun controls, changed his position in the aftermath of the Connecticut shooting.

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As Nation and Parties Change, Republicans Are at an Electoral College Disadvantage

Fri, 09 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By By NATE SILVER - Nov. 09 (Opinion) - Even if Mitt Romney had won the popular vote by two percentage points, President Obama would still have won the Electoral College.

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"What We Do to the Land, We Do to the People"-- May 24 West Virginia Direct Actions Against MTR

Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

The Writing Corner - By Beth Wellington - May. 24 (Opinion) - As part of Mountain Justice Summer Action Camp taking place at the Appalachian South Folklife Center near Pipestem, WV, five members of Mountain Justice and RAMPS boarded a coal barge to protest the destruction of mountains in West Virginia through Mountaintop removal, while other members and their fellow concerned activists blocked coal transport at approximately 10 a.m. on Thursday, May 24.

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Rick Santorum-Linked Universal Health Services Facility: Fraud, Assault And Alleged 'Exorcism'

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Jason Cherkis - Jan. 06 (News Report) - Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) has become a top-tier candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in recent weeks by appealing to evangelical votersas a man steeped in family values and his Christian faith. From 2007 to 2011, however, Santorum served on the board of directors of Universal Health Services Inc., a large hospital chain which racked up dozens of allegations of abuse during that time -- including everything from rape to suicide attempts allowed by neglect to murder.

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Let's Remember Mary C. Snow: An Open Letter to The Charleston Gazette

Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Writing Corner - By Beth Wellington - Dec. 21 (Opinion) - As a lover of your newspaper, that's why I was disappointed today when I checked your archives and couldn't read more about Mary C. Snow, an educator in Kanawha County, West Virginia Schools for more than fifty years and the first African-American principal in the area.

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The victory OWS has already won - AlterNet - Salon.com

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Joshua Holland - Oct. 27 () - In just one month, the protesters have shifted the national dialogue from a relentless focus on the deficit to a discussion of the real issues facing Main Street: the lack of jobs — and especially jobs with decent benefits — spiraling inequality, cash-strapped American families’ debt loads, and the pernicious influence of money in politics that led us to this point.

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Editorial: Blame Congress

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 22:09:03 -0700

New York Times - Jul. 19 (Opinion) - Congress has failed to enact climate change legislation that would have encouraged innovation.

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Dust-Up in Coal Country

Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0700

FactCheck - By Viveca Novak - Oct. 01 (News) - West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin is under fire from his Republican opponent, John Raese, for supposedly undermining the coal industry. Raese’s ad is misleading, though. Even the coal producers disagree with it. The two are competing to fill the last two years of the late Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd’s term. Raese says that Manchin "passed a law [...]

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Robert Byrd, Respected Voice of the Senate, Dies at 92

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 05:41:22 -0700

New York Times - By Adam Clymer - Jun. 28 (News Report) - Robert C. Byrd, who used his record tenure as a United States senator to fight for the primacy of the legislative branch of government and to build a modern West Virginia with vast amounts of federal money, died early on Monday. He was 92.

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Senator Robert C. Byrd: Timeline

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Charleston Gazette - Jun. 28 (Special Report) - Over his nine-term career as a U.S. senator, Robert C. Byrd has met and been pictured with some the most influential figures of our time.

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U.S. Sen. Robert C. Byrd dies at 92

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Charleston Gazette - By Greg Moore - Jun. 28 (News Report) - Robert Carlyle Byrd, the longest-serving member of Congress in United States history, who spent much of his career as a conservative Democrat and ended it by fiercely opposing the war in Iraq and questioning the state's powerful coal industry, died Monday. He was 92.

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West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd dead at 92

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Joe Holley - Jun. 28 (Special Report) - Mr. Byrd had been hospitalized last week with what was thought to be heat exhaustion, but more serious issues were discovered, aides said Sunday. No formal cause of death was given.

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Concern over safety violations at West Virginia mine as rescue continues

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Free Speech Radio News - By Karen Miller - Apr. 08 (News Report) - Rescuers trying to reach four missing miners after an explosion at a West Virginia coal mine are retreating today. The state's governor, Joe Manchin, said noxious gas levels were still too high and the rescuers had to turn back. It has been four days since Monday’s violent explosion killed 25 people at the Big Branch Mine. The coal mine, owned by Massey Energy, has multiple federal violations. In fact, two safety violations were made against the mine on the very day of the deadly explosion.

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Editorial: Another Mining Tragedy

Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - Apr. 07 (Opinion) - After yet another major mining catastrophe, much has to be done to improve mine safety.

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Race (and West Virginia) Makes the Democrat's Obama Gamble Riskier than Ever

Thu, 15 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - May. 15 (Opinion) - Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama has moved heaven and earth to keep race out of his campaign. He had no choice. He knew that if he gave even the faintest hint of a tilt toward black voters his campaign would be DOA. While early polls consistently showed that a crushing majority of whites said that competence, ability and experience, not race, are the only things they consider in voting for a candidate, he also knew that race still might be the great X Factor for him in the presidential contest.

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