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Forbes ranks Virginia as the #1 state to do business. North Carolina is #3. West Virginia is #49. Makes me wonder how they define “business?” Thats a whole lot of “business” right there. Mountaintop removal is not “good for business.”

Election season is heating up. Heres some regional races I’ve got my eyes on. VA-Senate (Survey USA) George Allen (R)(inc.) – 47% Jim Webb (D) – 42% TN-Senate (Rassmussen) Bob Corker (R) – 48% Harold Ford(D) – 42% NC-11 (Public Policy Polling) (with leaners) Charles Taylor (R)(inc.) – 45% Heath Shuler (D) – 51% Note,…

After a short exit from West Virginia into Maryland, we are back on home turf. Currently Ed is walking on a particularly hilly section of rt.50. We have left Maryland and the wonderful hospitality of my Dad and His Lady Cris. Thank You both so much, for the food, the laughs, the bed, and the…

Woah! A West Virginia airport terminal was evacuated Thursday after a female passenger’s water bottle twice tested positive for explosives, a Transportation Security Administration spokeswoman said. “The bomb squad is on site and the woman is being interviewed by the FBI,” Amy von Walter said. More on this as it develops. My guess is FALSE…

IN RESPONSE: BILL: I, like you, am a hunter. I also fish and trap. I have land in Alabama and Missouri, and I manage it much as you would, with periodic, patchy timber harvest. I have a BS in Forestry Resource Management and an MS in Forest Biology. What you are arguing for, more patchy…

Chimney Rock, in Rutherford County, is for sale, after 100-plus years of private owenership. At a cost of $55 million, many wonder what will happen to this natural wonder. Will it leave private hands and forever become public land, or will they FINALLY put that ferris wheel and funel-cake stand at the top we’ve been…

Appalachian State University may start selling some of its water to the town of Boone. The town and university have 2 separate water systems. The town is running out of water. ASU isn’t. However, many of the school’s facilities, including the State Farm Fields and the former “Quality Inn” –now a sorority dorm – use…

Well we have arrived at our mileage halfway point, and I must say it is an amazing feeling. Yet there could not have been a more challenging obstacle in front of our hallowed halfway point than Cheat Mountain. This particular mountain which rises just before the Maryland border has been looming over our heads for…

As many of you know, Massey subsidiary Goals Coal has been trying to build a SECOND silo within 300 feet of Marsh Fork Elementary. Well, for a second time, they have been DENIED the permit. The DEP, earlier this week, cited specifically that the second silo would have been “too close to the school.” The…

Coal River Mountain Watch lets us know what voters in WV think about mountaintop removal. Its unreal. Only 29% support MTR.