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Hi-Wire Brewing and Appalachian Mountain Brewing form partnership

The North Carolina craft beverage landscape is witnessing a powerful alliance as two prominent breweries... The post Hi-Wire ...
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The ultimate Georgia bucket list: 31 unforgettable experiences in the Peach State

Discover 31 must-do activities and places to visit in Georgia, from historic sites to natural wonders and popular restaurants ...

Appalachia’s black lung rates highest in nearly 50 years as miners’ protections stall

This story was published through the Appalachian News Exchange, a regional media collaboration. Respiratory therapist Marcy Freeman doesn’t need a research study to confirm for her a return to the ...
WVTF

Black lung rates in Appalachia are high as the 1970s, with thousands of miners sick

Rates are now the highest they've been in nearly 50 years among veteran coal miners. Mining experts blame toxic silica dust, ...

When the last reporter leaves: Kentucky’s spreading news desert

In the late summer of 1974 somebody set fire to the Mountain Eagle in Whitesburg. The blaze took the offices, the files, the bound archives — most of the institutional memory of Letcher County that ...
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

New Study: Black Lung Disease Rate in Appalachia Is the Worst in Nearly 50 Years as Coal Miner Protections Stall

Respiratory therapist Marcy Freeman doesn’t need a research study to confirm for her a return to the dark days of coal mining. She finds evidence in a stack of more than 150 fun ...
Public Health Watch

New Study: Black Lung Disease Rate in Appalachia Is the Worst in 50 Years as Coal Miner Protections Stall

Miners working in Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia who’ve had at least 25 years underground have the worst rate of coal workers’ pneumoconiosis, or black lung disease. One in three — 32.5% — ...