ItÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ been 100 years since miners in Logan County, West Virginia, took up arms against law enforcement, private security forces and strikebreakers in the Battle of Blair Mountain.What started as a protest march and an attempt at unionization ended in bloody conflict. It wasn’t the first time ...
The ongoing opioid addiction crisis began with excessive distribution of a new generation of effective opioid painkillers, such as OxyContin.But with new prescribing protocols and comprehensive prescription-tracking by physicians and pharmacies, the overwhelming driver of the carnage is the ...
In good times, serving on a school board is not exactly thankless work, but itÄ¢¹½ÊÓÆµ hardly glamorous.School board members typically sign off on textbook choices, hire everyone from cafeteria personnel to superintendents, read the fine print in budgets, and consider nuts-and-bolts questions like ...