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Doodle Dust deposits on right bank of Peak Creek. "Doodle Dust" deposits on the Right Bank of Peak Creek, June 2019 (courtesy of Virginia Tech)
December 10, 2019  |  By Jill_Williams In Community Organizing, Environment, Health Care, History, Inequality, Profiles

Pulaski County is…Doodle Dust?

Google “environmental justice in Appalachia” and nearly every returned link will exclusively describe the impact of coal extraction on the region. It’s no surprise, then, that here in Pulaski, VA, many of us only feel peripherally connected to that conversation. Although we have had a few coal mining operations in this County historically, most of […]

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OpioidsNationally
August 30, 2018  |  By Andy King In Congress, Health, Health Care, State Politics

Hiding in the Opioid Numbers

If there is one thing that Americans can agree on at this moment in our history, it’s that we have an opioid problem. An epidemic that touches every state and county. In fact, we all likely know someone who has become addicted to oxycodone, morphine, fentanyl, or any of the other countless prescription painkillers that […]

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Clad in a bulletproof vest, Ashley White arrives for a court hearing on the death of her five-year old son, Noah Thomas.
June 13, 2018  |  By Jill_Williams In Economy, Health Care, Inequality, Uncategorized

Finding Truth in Noah Thomas’s Death

I have spent the majority of my adult life working on, consulting with, and learning about truth and reconciliation commissions. These bodies are generally tasked with investigating human rights abuses or other injustices so that a community or nation can learn from the past, establish accountability for what happened in some way, and make recommendations […]

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Now leaving corpus christi road sign with blue sky
March 31, 2017  |  By Andy King In Economy, Environment

Leaving Coal Country

It’s been nearly 9 years since I took my first trip as an adult to Appalachia. My now-wife, then girlfriend, had a summer internship at a little church in the region. So one weekend I left the cornfields of Indiana in my Honda, bound southeast. I had plenty of visions in mind of where I […]

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