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It seems that every time you turn on the news in the last ten years you see the same thing. Another town without clean water. Another boil advisory taped to the refrigerator. Another family standing in a checkout line wi…
Read story →In Eastern Kentucky, we don’t really have a land problem. And we don’t really have a labor problem. What we have is a water problem, a sewer problem, a housing problem, and an infrastructure problem. You can still buil…
Read story →There are still places in this country where the land tells the truth. You can stand at the edge of a small farm just after sunrise and see it plainly. Rows that don’t stretch for miles, but bend with the shape of the g…
Read story →People have spent my whole life calling Eastern Kentucky a poor place. They say it on the news. They say it in Frankfort. They say it every time we show up in a ranking nobody wants to be on. But I have never believed th…
Read story →For more than a hundred years, Eastern Kentucky carried America on its back. Our coal lit its homes, powered its factories, and built its wealth. We gave everything. The hills, the rivers, our health, and our people were…
Read story →I looked over my electric bill the other day, and something didn’t sit right. Every light fixture in this house has been replaced. Not just the bulbs, the entire fixtures. New switches. New outlets. Every appliance I ow…
Read story →In Magoffin County, when something serious happens, there’s a moment that settles in before help arrives. It’s quiet, but it’s heavy. You’re watching someone struggle to breathe. Or you’re holding pressure on a wound. …
Read story →For years, Eastern Kentucky has been told it is poor, broken, and beyond saving without outside rescue. We have watched the same cycle repeat. New officials, old habits. Grants missed. Roads patched instead of fixed. Wat…
Read story →Most people think government happens somewhere far above them, in rooms they will never enter. But a county rises or falls in the quiet and ordinary systems that shape daily life. The road that survives the winter. The w…
Read story →In Eastern Kentucky, we don’t really have a land problem. And we don’t really have a labor problem. What we have is a water problem, a sewer problem, a housing problem, and an infrastructure problem. You can still buil…
Read story →More than 3,800 people in Magoffin County rely on SNAP benefits every month. That’s nearly a third of our entire population. But here’s the part no one’s talking about: That’s not just a statistic. It’s an opportunity. …
Read story →For nearly a century, farm bills have funneled billions of dollars into keeping America’s fields producing. But the story of that support is not one of fairness. It has been tilted toward the largest landholders, the mos…
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