Ohio Valley ReSource
News from around the Ohio Valley
Justin Hicks
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LPM
Kentucky officials defended the state-managed cleanup of eastern Kentucky’s devastating flooding during a legislative meeting on Tuesday, and largely avoided addressing miscommunication and ballooning costs that have taken place during the process.
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Black lung has surged in Appalachia in recent years. Research has tied the epidemic to silica dust, which can burrow deep into miners’ lungs. -
After revoking the initial version of the project in 2019, the federal Bureau of Prisons plans to revisit the process. -
The political shift has been dramatic across the Ohio Valley. Once defined by union power and labor issues, it's now dominated by social issues. -
This year’s General Election falls three months after catastrophic flooding destroyed lives and homes in eastern Kentucky. -
The Ohio Valley is rich with sightings of cryptids: creatures of lore, unknown to science.
