West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin has released a strong new ad that uses his wealthy GOP opponent John Raese's own words to show how out-of-touch Raese's faux-populist message is.
This post is the latest in our series of coal ash community profiles. Our work on coal ash unfortunately becomes timely yet again, as news came out th...
Rasmussen 9/27/10; 500 likely voters, 4.5% margin of error Mode: Automated phone (Rasmussen release) West Virginia 2010 Senate 48% Raese (R), 46% M...
Two years ago this month, I flew in a helicopter over Appalachian coal country in Kentucky. After we landed and I drove off, I cried. I was in Ken...
Public Policy Polling (D) 9/18-19/10; 1,397 likely voters, 2.6% margin of error Mode: Automated phone (PPP release) West Virginia 2010 Senate 46% Ra...
One of the great outcomes of The Humane Society of the United States' animal rescue work is the chance to deliver previously traumatized animals into new lives, and to watch their transformation in their new surroundings.
Rasmussen 9/19/10; 750 likely voters, 4% margin of error Mode: Automated phone (Rasmussen release) West Virginia 2010 Senate 50% Manchin (D), 43% Ra...
From the hills and hollows of West Virginia, IT professionals are resolving to do what American IT professionals have never done before - stop the out...
Now it's Big Coal's turn to pick up the tab for the Tea Party. Under the guise of "celebrating the American coal miner," an infamous Big Coal front lobby group has bankrolled the buses, hotels and meals to bring Appalachian coal mining supporters to DC.
Chu triumphantly told his Big Coal listeners that he would "save coal" by investing billions into still infeasible, prohibitively expensive, unproven and fanciful carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology.
Rasmussen 9/8/10; 500 likely voters, 4.5% margin of error Mode: Automated phone (Rasmussen release) West Virginia 2010 Senate 50% Manchin (D), 45% R...
Rasmussen 8/29/10; 500 likely voters, 4.5% margin of error Mode: Automated phone (Rasmussen release) West Virginia 2010 Senate 48% Manchin (D), 42% ...
A bright new face has been added to the crowded Web, drawing a large readership and uploading more than 900 stories in its first twelve weeks. Still ...
R.L.Repass & Partners / MindField 7/26-8/2/10; 268 likely voters, 6% margin of error Mode: Internet (R.L. Repass release) West Virginia 2010 Senate ...
Sure, some trips are more fun than others, and some places' charms aren't evident at first glance. But I've never been anywhere that couldn't hold my attention or anywhere I would refuse to visit again.
Maybe there is some merit to electing to high office senior citizens whose better days in public service are supposedly behind them.