On Aug 31rst, a kickoff was held in Hazard for Kentucky WIRED, or the “KY I-Way” as Rep. Hal Rogers likes to call it. Access to reliable and affordable high speed Internet is a problem for many residents and businesses throughout central Appalachia. Kentucky, in fact, ranks near the bottom in the nation in average […]
In this special edition of WMMT’s Mountain Talk, Hollis West and Robert Shaffer describe their sometimes controversial, often successful, efforts to develop an anti-poverty program in Knox County, KY in the 1960s and ’70s that put into practice the War on Poverty Program’s call for “maximum feasible participation of the poor.” Their story is followed […]
Beth Bingman, community educator from Dungannon, VA, speaks on ways the coalfields could benefit from the POWER+ Plan, encourages legislators to support.
Gerry Roll, Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky, calls for “disaster relief,” investment to enable central Appalachia to recover and rebuild from an economic storm.
