By T.L. HEADLEY, MBA, MA First, I want to say that the murder of the church members in South Carolina is an unspeakable crime and should serve to remind us all that a crime is anyone is a crime against us all. The racially-motivated murders were truly a hate crime inspired in the very pits…
Coal Commodity Region/Fuel Avg. BTU SO2 Price Price/mmBTU Central Appalachia 12,500 1.2 $52.85 $2.11 Northern Appalachia 13,000 3 $60.90 $2.34 Illinois Basin 11,800 5 $40.45 $1.71 Powder River Basin 8,800 0.8 $11.55 $0.66 Uinta Basin 11,700 0.8 $39.30 $1.68 Natural Gas (Henry Hub) n/a 0.01 n/a $2.72 By T.L. HEADLEY,…
(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is not my work. It is a re-publication of an article the link to which is found below). By the end of the 19th century, it had become clear to science that the human brain produces measurable electrical currents. This discovery eventually led to the electroencephalograph (EEG), a device which enables doctors…
NBC EXIT POLL 2014 General Election West Virginia GENDER CATEGORY TOTAL TENNANT CAPITO Male 50% 30% 67% Female 50% 39% 58% IN WHICH AGE GROUP ARE YOU? CATEGORY TOTAL TENNANT CAPITO 18-29 10% 35% 60% 30-44 21% 34% 60% 45-64 44% 33% 65% 65 or over 24% 37% 61% IN WHICH AGE GROUP ARE YOU?…
By T.L. HEADLEY, MBA, MA, MA, BA I never cease to be amazed by the amount of sheer ignorance on display on social media. We have anti-coal radicals on one of the coal industry social media pages I manage who pop in and try to slur hard-working coal miners. They accuse them of being “killers,”…
By T.L. HEADLEY, MBA, MA, BA The claims by some in the “science for hire” community that coal mining causes the myriad health problems faced by many West Virginians is a classic example of prostitution of science in the service of a political agenda. A simple look at the incidence of cancer — perhaps the most environmentally sensitive of all diseases — is sufficient to show…
By T.L. HEADLEY, MBA, MAT, MA, BA I just received a copy of this year’s Kids Count Report for West Virginia. Needless to say the data is scary and should be sobering to anyone who cares about our children and the future of our state. Especially since the data set drawn from dates back to…
By T.L. HEADLEY, MBA, MA, MAT, BA “The conservative vision for America is not an Ayn Rand novel. It’s Norman Rockwell painting, or a Frank Capra movie: a nation ‘of plain, ordinary kindness, and a little looking out for the other fellow, too.’” Sen. Mike Lee. I like Ayn Rand in terms of her views…
By T.L. HEADLEY Everyone’s lives are marked in terms of moments – captured in photos or videos, or perhaps only in the memories of those who share in them. Late last night, I learned of the passing of Ralph Waite. To me, Waite will always be John Walton, patriarch of the Walton Clan in the…
By T.L. HEADLEY, MBA, MAT, MA, BA Now I, like many others, have been reading the newspapers about the issues relating to a local political figure and allegations of child abuse. I don’t know about the beyond situation beyond what I read in the newspapers, but I DO know that I believe a parent has…
By T. L. Headley Today is Father’s Day and I spent the morning at Church with my wife and two sons. We had a special service with World War II Medal of Honor Recipient Woody Williams serving as Lay Minister. His sermon surrounded service — service to your God, service to your country and service…
By T.L. HEADLEY, MBA, MA, BA Many years ago, the great newsman Edward R. Murrow wrote an op-ed entitled “This I Believe…” in response to what he perceived as the threat to this nation posed by the “Red Scare” and McCarthyism. In the interest of context, here is an extract from that piece… “We hardly…
By T.L. HEADLEY, MBA, MA, BA True “liberalism” focuses on the freedom of the individual. Those who believe in restraining personal freedoms (whether religious, economic, social, etc.) are NOT liberals. Socialism and political correctness (under any name you choose to call it) are NOT “liberal” nor “democratic” in any shape, form or fashion, but rather…
Written by T.L. Headley for Bill Raney, president West Virginia Coal Association Washington is broken. That much is obvious even to a sixth grader. While far too many Americans struggle with months or even years of unemployment, with foreclosure, with skyrocketing energy and food prices, there is a growing sense that nobody in Washington is…
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