How We Accidentally Enrolled in Medicaid and Faced Financial Ruin
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Heard Tell Podcast: Redistricting & Being A Speck Of Blue In Red West Virginia w/ Del Kayla Young
Delegate Kayla Young talks redistricting, running for office, and going past stereotypes and news cycle headlines about West Virginia.
OT Contributor Network: Avi Woolf’s Podcast with Andrew Donaldson
Avi Woolf’s latest podcast features a conversation with OT’s Andrew Donaldson talking about the latter’s native West Virginia.
A Glimmer of Light in West Virginia’s Dark and Dusty Opioid Crisis
The opioid crisis has brought a dark and dusty sky upon places like West Virginia, and like all darkness it only abates one way. Shining light.
Fearing Immunization Gap, West Virginia Tries Incentivizing Covid Vaccinations
With West Virginia having gone from leading the nation to lagging behind, Governor Jim Justice is getting creative and incentivizing Covid vaccinations.
Ordinary Times’ Andrew Donaldson on Consumer Choice Radio
Ordinary Times’ own Managing Editor Andrew Donaldson appeared on Consumer Choice Radio to talk politics, culture, West Virginia & more
Bang!
I doubt I could get a thousand tons of uranium ore without attracting a bit of unwanted attention. In fact, it’s probably best I don’t disclose too much”
Saturday Spins: Steve Earle’s Ghosts of West Virginia
Earle’s goal on this album was to cut through a lot of that and attempt to understand, not condescend to, the dualities that exists in one state in particular, West Virginia.
West Virginia, Mountain Mama
So much is happening right now that it’s hard to pay attention to any one particular thing, particularly my implausible escapades.
To the Place I Belong
By this point, I am afraid that the absurdity of all this had become too much to bear.
Country Roads, Take Me Home
If you choose to rely upon Google, Verizon, and/or Samsung products as an aid to road navigation, do yourself a favor and verify the route using traditional methods.
Pepperoni Rolls: West Virginia’s Official Food, Not a Hot Pocket
You should try a pepperoni roll sometime if you get the opportunity. Just make sure it is an actual pepperoni roll, and not one of the weak wannabe versions
Big Jim vs The Corona
When West Virginia’s governor “Big Jim” Justice speaks, the residents hold our breath to see what sort of colorful (read: embarrassing) babble will come out
One of Three, But Should Be Many
Thinking we are better off without such people as Najib Ahmad Bakhtari in our nation is lunacy.
Slummin’ in Appalachia
Invariably, this brand of poverty tourism results in another iteration of the same article that’s been written dozens of times already.
About that Clean Water and Air in West Virginia
There is much about environmental sciences/climate change debate that I do not know much about. The water and air in West Virginia? That I know about.
Dirty Politics
If Maroney is proven guilty, his ouster is not inappropriate, though I am of the opinion that such ouster should occur at the voting booth.
A Very Welcome Victory
Sports are not a salve. That said, an unexpected win still manages to feel awfully damned good.
Dark and Dusty, Painted on the Sky
The dirty history of West Virginians trying to get clean of documentary perceptions.
Wednesday Writs for 6/19 – West Virginia Day Edition!
It’s Wednesday Writs, West Virginia Day edition! WV Day isn’t until tomorrow, but now is a good time to brush up on how we became a state, in our case of the week. Also: several SCOTUS updates, a “Cops” expose, John Denver, and more!
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