Thoughts of a Coal Miner

Archives

Archives

06/14 | A Coal Miner’s Health: Short Term Gains and Long Term loss
07/29 | Coal, Greed, and Maintaining a Captive Generational Workforce
09/07 | Coal Miners are Good People
10/21 | Coal Dust and Corporate Jets

02/22 | How do you convince a coal miner?
11/11 | True Appalachians

06/16 | Black Mesa: Some Lines Must Be Drawn
06/26 | Are We Ignorant Hillbillies?
09/20 | Telling it how it is….
11/03 | Job Alternatives for Coal Miners
11/09 | Fueling the Fires of Ignorance
12/07 | Remembering the South Mountain No. 3 Mine Explosion

02/08 | Going Against the Grain
02/27 | Buffalo Creek Disaster – 42 years Later & Still Remembering
03/03 | Reparation
03/30 | “Coal is all we’ve got”
06/01 | Present Day Coal Mining: Dishonoring our heritage.
07/14 | The Religion of Coal
08/23 | Laid Off
12/06 | National Miner’s Day

03/22 | Friend of Coal? Read this…
08/21 | The Truth About Coal Ash
11/14 | Everything They’ve Taken, Everything They’ve Left
12/05 | The Modern Day Company Town
12/12 | Obama Has Killed Coal
12/22 | Christmas at the Mines
12/30 | The Problem with Environmental Activism in Appalachia

01/09 | Mining, Diesel Particulate Matter, & Cancer
01/18 | Blood on the Mountain
03/04 | Broken Promises
03/09 | The Scotia Mine Disaster – 40 years later
07/25 | On “In the Black” by Gary Bentley
07/28 | Coal is not what raised me…
12/18 | Searching for Justice in Appalachia
12/20 | Without the Union…
12/31 | The Coal Industry in Our Public Schools

01/03 | Their Final Hours: Ten Years After the Sago Mine Disaster
02/18 | Trump Isn’t Creating Coal Jobs, He’s Helping the Industry Make More Money
04/24 | Coal Miners Deserve Better
05/01 | Will supporting carbon capture help coal mining communities?
06/18 | The Love of a Coal Mining Father
06/21 | Searching for Justice in Appalachia: Part II
06/28 | Against Our Own Best Interest: Why Working People Shouldn’t Elect Businessmen Into Office
07/19 | Maintenance, safety, and the drive for production
08/01 | The Real Presidential “Delegation”
08/02 | The Ongoing Fight Against Media’s Misrepresentation of Appalachia
08/08 | As Coal Production Ramps Up, Companies Should Pay Their Debts to Mining Communities
08/13 | The Manipulation of Southern Pride
08/19 | Appalachia’s Captive Workforce
08/23 | Appalachians Have Lost More Than Coal, We’ve Lost Who We Are
09/05 | Voting against their best interests
09/16 | With Liberty and Justice for All*
09/19 | A Few Thoughts on Climate Change
11/06 | Stereotyping Appalachians Feeds Only the Coal Industry
12/15 | Appalachia’s Coalfields Weren’t Always Red

01/23 | Exploiting Appalachia’s Heroes
03/24 | The Only Way Out for Appalachia’s Coalfields
05/02 | The Love-Hate Relationship of Exporting Appalachian Coal
08/21 | A Letter to J.D. Vance
12/06 | Some Things Worth Remembering on National Miner’s Day

02/28 | It’s Not a Left or Right Thing. It’s a Money Thing.

05/14 | Can We Change? Will We Change?

06/09 | Thoughts of a Coal Miner Returns
06/10 | TECO Coal
06/18 | Coalfield Gentrification Brings New Challenges and Hope