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Robert Byrd, Respected Voice of the Senate, Dies at 92
Robert C. Byrd, who used his record tenure as a United States senator to fight for the primacy of the legislative ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd dead at 92
Mr. Byrd had been hospitalized last week with what was thought to be heat exhaustion, but more serious issues were ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala
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Fracking the Amish
A bleak December sky hangs low over rural Lawrence County, Pennsylvania. Here, in areas populated by large Amish ...Posted by Pamela Hogle -
Rick Santorum-Linked Universal Health Services Facility: Fraud, Assault And Alleged 'Exorcism'
Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) has become a top-tier candidate for the Republican presidential nomination in ...Posted by Dwight Rousu
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Argument over NRA T-shirt gets eighth-grader jailed. Dress code run amok?
A student at a West Virginia middle school was suspended and arrested after a confrontation with a teacher over an ...Posted by Pamela Hogle -
Is the Keystone XL pipeline fight the Stonewall of climate change?
If decision-makers take as long to act on this issue as they did on gay rights, we will all be wearing scuba masks ...Posted by Pamela Hogle -
The Caucus: Senator Rockefeller Is Said to Be Retiring
(Blog Post) Senator John D. Rockefeller IV of West Virginia, the scion of the Rockefeller family who established himself as a ...Posted by Pamela Hogle
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What Keystone XL Opponents Could Learn From the Gay Rights Movement
This story first appeared on the TomDispatch website. A few weeks ago, Time magazine called the fight over the ...Posted by Pamela Hogle -
"What We Do to the Land, We Do to the People"-- May 24 West Virginia Direct Actions Against MTR
As part of Mountain Justice Summer Action Camp taking place at the Appalachian South Folklife Center near ...Posted by Barry Grossheim
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Robert Byrd, Respected Voice of the Senate, Dies at 92
Fracking the Amish
Argument over NRA T-shirt gets eighth-grader jailed. ...