81-year-old activist begins fast to end mountaintop removal mining
From Institute for Southern Studies By Sue Sturgis An 81-year-old activist will begin a fast today at the West Virginia State Capitol in an effort to end mountaintop removal coal mining. A native of Virginia who now lives in upstate New York, U.S. Army veteran Roland Micklem spent a half-century working as a naturalist and science teacher [...] Related posts:

SC WWII vet’s battle ends in gunshot at VA clinic
From The State EDITOR’S NOTE – In reporting this story, The Associated Press used mental health records provided by Grover Chapman’s family, records obtained from the military with the family’s permission and ships’ logs from World War II. The AP also conducted dozens of interviews over several months with Chapman’s family, the Department of Veterans Affairs, [...]

This Is George Bush’s Recession
Why Doesn’t Anybody Talk About That? From Alternet By Joshua Holland, AlterNet In October, Barack Obama told a San Francisco audience about what it was like trying to deal with an economy he’d inherited in smoking ruins last January. “I’m busy … cleaning up somebody else’s mess,” he said. “We don’t want somebody sitting back saying, you’re [...] Related posts:

Congo Square
Image via Wikipedia November 28 Congo Square is celebrated on this date’s Registry from 1817. It is the informal name for an open area in the southern corner of Louis Armstrong Memorial Park. Officially named Beauregard Square and Congo Plains, the site is paved with cobblestones and has large oaks and ornamentals. The site has remained an open [...] Related posts:

Jimi Hendrix Birthday
Image via Wikipedia November 27 Jimi Hendrix was born on this date in 1942. He was an African-American blues and rock guitarist known for his innovative playing of the electric guitar and as a symbol of the 1960s youth counterculture. He was of mixed African-American and Cherokee ancestry. Hendrix was from Seattle, Washington, where he taught himself to [...] Related posts: