Bomb Appalachia (and Face the Music)
Theirs is a coast-to-coast campaign to save Appalachia's mountains and streams -- and Appalachians' homes, jobs, and culture -- from the devastating coal mining practice known as mountaintop removal.
Theirs is a coast-to-coast campaign to save Appalachia's mountains and streams -- and Appalachians' homes, jobs, and culture -- from the devastating coal mining practice known as mountaintop removal.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 10.29.2009 | Green
The scandalous University of Kentucky Trustees may have voted to approve rebuilding and renaming the beloved Joe B. Hall Wildcat Lodge as the Wildcat Coal Lodge, but the public relations nightmare has just begun.
Don McNay | Posted 10.27.2009 | Business
If anyone has ever dreamed of being an office holder, 2010 is the year to do it. There are going to be several situations where voters elect a complete unknown, just to express their anger about the incumbent.
Yahoo! News | STEVE SZKOTAK, Associated Press Writer | Posted 10.21.2009 | Denver
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Don McNay | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business
You are not doing your children any favors by not allowing them to grow up. I'm OK with parents helping children through college (in four years, not forty), but after that they are on their own.
Reproductive Justice | Posted 10.17.2009 | Living
Every woman has different life circumstances. Every pregnancy produces different challenges. Who is more able to assess the moral validity of every woman's abortion? I certainly don't think it's the Archbishop.
Marshall Goldsmith | Posted 10.17.2009 | Living
Every once in a while I run across someone who doesn't want to change. What do I do to convince them the change is good for them? Nothing!
Don McNay | Posted 10.12.2009 | Business
I'm convinced that most of the mistakes made handling money result from lack of information and bad habits formed in childhood.
AP | JEFFREY McMURRAY | Posted 10.11.2009 | Politics
BIG CREEK, Ky. — The manager of a part-time census taker who died under mysterious circumstances in southeastern Kentucky says other workers are...
Don McNay | Posted 10.10.2009 | Impact
It could be that President Obama is a small town guy after all. His early adulthood on the south side of Chicago is where he found a "small town" environment that embraced him.
Beth Arnold | Posted 10.06.2009 | World
My prediction: Theo Edmonds is going to stir up the Paris art world. Better get a painting while you can.
Don McNay | Posted 09.29.2009 | Business
I've watched many people get in trouble with upside down car loans, second mortgages or high interest rate financing. Credit keeps many people from living within their means. Then a friend told me he was buying a large house.
Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics
William E. Sparkman Jr. was a 51-year-old single father who once battled Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma while he pursued his teaching degree, according to a Mar...
Don McNay | Posted 09.22.2009 | Business
Even as a structured settlement consultant, I was stunned to learn that within two years of retirement, 78 percent of NFL players are bankrupt or under financial stress.
AP | GREG BLUESTEIN | Posted 09.22.2009 | Home
ATLANTA — Surging floodwaters ripped apart a west Georgia trailer home, drowning a 2-year-old boy swept from his father's arms. In Atlanta, stra...
Don McNay | Posted 09.15.2009 | Business
Wall Street and Washington don't understand what is happening on Main Street. The people in Washington are pushing the line that they saved us from "something even worse." Like what?
Yahoo! News | Renee Schoof, McClatchy Newspapers | Posted 09.14.2009 | Green
WASHINGTON -- The Environmental Protection Agency announced Friday that 79 applications for surface coal-mine permits in Kentucky , West Virginia , Oh...
Gail McGowan Mellor | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
All of the sudden five-year increase in consumer spending, which primed the U.S. economy for the fall, can be attributed to health care costs.
Dave Cooper | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green
What happens when coal companies flatten the mountains directly above Appalachian communities?
Don McNay | Posted 10.16.2009 | Business
Everyone has dreams and desires but usually keep them hidden, back in the recesses of their minds. The lottery question gets those dreams and desires out in the open, on the front burner.
Marshall Goldsmith | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living
The next time you are working on a project, ask yourself, "What would happen to my level of commitment if I knew that I was only going to be paid if I achieved results?"
Judi Jennings | Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics
If children were hungry or ill, Ted Kennedy wanted to know. And he wanted to do something about it.
Rob Perks | Posted 09.25.2009 | Green
It remains nearly impossible to functionally replace a mountain whose ecological niche was 400 million years in the making.
Senate Guru | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics
With the 2010 Senate races in Ohio and Kentucky featuring two of the most competitive Democratic primaries of the cycle, I asked them why the progressive netroots should support their campaigns.
Don McNay | Posted 09.24.2009 | Business
When three people who know about money go to the extreme of not owning any credit cards, others might want to take note.
Michael Gould-Wartofsky | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green