Music Series Brings People Together
Excitement is building for the second Levitt AMP Whitesburg Music Series, which is set to take place on the Mountain Heritage Festival Stage beginning...
Appalachia’s New Energy Interns
This edition of Making Connections News features three interviews that David Butler, host of the Clean Power Planet podcast, did with folks from the...
Hopes Rise With New RECLAIM Act
Over the past 6 years residents of coal-impacted communities and supporters across the country have urged Congress to pass the RECLAIM Act, which would...
Tapping Into Tradition
Could maple syrup become an income generating crop in the hills of Appalachia? Seth Long, who operates a small farm in Letcher County, KY,...
KVEC Proposes a Region’s Way Forward
Kentucky Valley Educational Cooperative Executive Director Jeff Hawkins and staff members Dessie Bowling and Bernadette Carpenter describe proposals put forward by KVEC school districts...
Reclaiming Appalachia
Many Voices, Many Solutions: Innovative Mine Reclamation in Central Appalachia is a new report that highlights 20 projects across five Appalachian states that would create...
Mountain Women Mean Business
This past November over 100 people, most of them women from throughout central Appalachia, came together in downtown Harlan, KY, for “Mountain Women Mean...
Fighting to Save the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund
Citizens from six states traveled to Washington D.C. in late November 2018, to urge their legislators to uphold the fees supporting the Black Lung...
