Category The Soapbox

Corporations have always used and abused West Virginia, treating the people of this state as nothing more than disposable collateral damage. Just look back at the Paint Creek / Cabin Creek strike in 1913. Coal operators, along with local law…

West Virginia has shipped out everything. Our coal, gas, timber, and even our young people. Yet we remain one of the nation’s poorest states. This isn’t due to lack of hard work, but because the wealth we generate never stays…