WEST Virginia will draw international attention Sunday night when CNN broadcasts a Soledad O'Brien documentary titled "Battle for Blair Mountain: Working in America." The 8 p.m. show outlines the ongoing struggle to restore the famed Logan County peak to the National Register of Historic Places and halt plans to strip-mine the site. Most of the film deals with the never-ending conflict between industrial jobs and nature protection. It chronicles this summer's re-enactment march from Marmet to Logan County by hundreds of social activists. From the opposite side, it displays miners and coal officials who say families and the economy will suffer if mountaintop removal mining is curtailed.
One of the biggest challenges facing Western society is overcoming the belief that Western civilization is in decline, said former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. Blair was at the Mabee Center on the Oral Roberts University campus in Tulsa on Tuesday as part of Oklahoma State University's Tulsa Business Forum series.
Board Approves Purchase of Coal Rights to Protect SGL 330; Board Approves Gas Lease on SGL 208; Board Approves Surface Mining Coal Lease on SGL 100; Board Approves Gas Lease on SGL 276; Board Approves Surface Mining Coal Lease on SGL 75 HARRISBURG, Pa., Feb. 1, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Pennsylvania Board of Game Commissioners today approved a donation of land in Lehigh County, and two acquisitions of land in Centre and Blair counties.
The United Mine Workers of America supported efforts to save the historic Blair Mountain battlefield in a legal motion it filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The Battle of Blair Mountain lasted five days, in late August and early September 1921, when union miners were marching from Marmet in Kanawha County down to the Logan County coalfields.
ALTOONA -- Despite changes over the years, the paper mill industry remains a big player in the Blair County economy. According to a recent study conducted by the Penn State Workforce Education and Development Initiative, the paper mill industry is responsible for generating $14.3 million in annual compensation for every 100 paper mill workers employed in Blair County.
COLUMBUS -- There's been a summer pause in the execution of Ohio's death row inmates and state Rep. Terry Blair would like to see that pause made permanent. I don't think we have any business in taking another person's life, even for what we call a legal purpose or what we might refer to as a justified purpose," the Washington Twp. Republican said.
New Jersey's Blair Academy made its Powerade Tournament debut a memorable one as the Buccaneers became the 21st different team to win a team title at the 45-year event. Ranked first in the country and 33 times the national prep champions, Blair Academy produced four individual champions and three runner-ups while compiling 293 team points.
This paper traces the emergence and demise of the Third Way using Foucault's thought to investigate the governmentality of Third Way politics in terms of its techniques of governing focusing on the construction of the citizen-consumer, the social market, and the reform of public services, especially in the context of Tony Blair's New Labor administration in the UK. On this basis the paper makes some broad comments about education, power and freedom.
LAYTON -- The young men almost looked like twins, not only in their dress, but the manner in which they dispatched their more experienced opponents Saturday at the Men's State Amateur golf tournament. Alex Sutton and Zac Blair, a pair of 18-year-olds both wearing purple shirts, white shorts, white hats and white shoes, survived two matches apiece at Valley View Golf Course and will meet today in a 36-hole championship match.
pwolf@lnpnews.com Anthony L. Blair, a Lititz pastor and faculty member at Eastern University, was named president of Evangelical Theological Seminary in Myerstown, effective July 1.
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