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Mtn. Talk Monday: Whitesburg Dowtown Revitalization and Reinvestment
In this episode, five University of Virginia students in the Master's of Urban and Environmental Planning program report on their assessment of the existing conditions within a roughly one-mile corridor within downtown Whitesburg, Kentucky. The assessment lays out a foundation for Whitesburg to participate in the Environmental Law Institute's BRIGHT program. The students inventory assets and challenges, highlights resources, and offers a palette of design opportunities, and strategies for community directed corridor revitalization.
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Mtn. Talk Monday: Whitesburg Dowtown Revitalization and Reinvestment
June 13, 2017In this episode, five University of Virginia students in the Master’s of Urban and Environmental Planning program report on their assessment of the existing conditions Read More >
Mtn. Talk Monday: Art in Isolation – Native American and Appalachian
June 5, 2017Art from cultures not included in mainstream America– Zuni Pueblo, Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, Coeburn VA– have more in common than one might think. Why do Read More >
MN&WR: Silver Buckshot
June 1, 2017In this special edition episode, Mountain News & World Report takes a look at some of the pieces of the “silver buckshot” theory of economic diversification Read More >
Mtn. Talk Monday: East KY Leadership Conference
May 24, 2017This episode features highlights from the East Kentucky Leadership Conference with keynote speaker Earl Gohl who is the federal co-chair of the Appalachian Regional Commission Read More >
Coal Report for May 10, 2017
May 24, 2017Despite President Trump’s promises to put coal miners back to work, Kentucky’s coal industry still saw a loss in coal jobs for the first quarter at a 3.3% drop statewide. Read More >
Mtn. Talk Monday: Mountains of Music Homecoming – The Crooked Road
May 24, 2017In this episode, learn more about the Mountains of Music Homecoming and the The Crooked Road: Virginia’s Heritage Music Trail. Host Kelli Haywood and guest host Rich Kirby Read More >
MN&WR: Connections
May 24, 2017Malcolm and Jennifer Wilson of Humans of Central Appalachia speak with Dock Frazier, owner of the Farm House General Store in Ermine, Kentucky about connection to the land and Read More >
Coal Report for May 3, 2017
May 24, 2017The water infrastructure bill which was passed last year through Congress allowed for states to set up their own systems for issuing coal ash disposal permits. However, Read More >
Coal Report for April 26, 2017
May 24, 2017Justice Low Seam Mining Inc., a company owned by West Virginia governor Jim Justice, has been cited in relation to the February 27th death of Jason Kenneth Matthews at the JC Read More >
Mtn. Talk Monday: Eastern Kentucky Response to Nazis
May 24, 2017In February, it was made public that white nationalist groups were planning training and rally events in Pike County and Floyd County, Kentucky at the end of April. The Read More >
