Mason Adams

@MasonAtoms

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  1. 12 hours ago

    Peoples Natural Gas is asking Pennsylvania regulators to raise rates 14-19% to generate revenue for replacing pipelines. “It’s just a massive amount that’s needed to replace massive pipeline [projects]"

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  2. 14 hours ago

    What I wanna know is, what's Knox County Mayor Kane doing about this?

    "Knoxville always struck me as a place that kind of has the culture of a place like Asheville below the surface but is not really known for that." Hoo boy. Kava has apparently arrived in eastern Tennessee.
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  3. 14 hours ago

    "Knoxville always struck me as a place that kind of has the culture of a place like Asheville below the surface but is not really known for that." Hoo boy. Kava has apparently arrived in eastern Tennessee.

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  4. 14 hours ago

    Black lung clinics are calling for action to better protect coal miners from dust exposure, but federal regulators say they're doing just fine enforcing the current laws. From

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  5. 15 hours ago

    That's an important difference between what happened in Richmond yesterday & what happened in Charleston last year. The WV teacher strikes resulted in closed schools. In Virginia, schools remained open, with substitutes filling in for teachers who rallied in Richmond.

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  6. 15 hours ago

    In Virginia, teachers rallying at the Capitol yesterday were adamant this was a march & not a strike a la WV. Why? Because, via , of a state law that makes it illegal for govt employees to strike. They'll get fired for striking.

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  7. 15 hours ago

    The GOP-dominated South faces the biggest economic threat from climate change, via study, h/t

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  8. 16 hours ago

    Giant rabbit gets a wild hare, goes on rampage through the streets of North Knoxville

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  9. Jan 28

    More about that bill in question in WV

    Bill moving through WV legislature would provide more $$ for schools but also weaken job protections & unions while transferring funding from increasingly empty public schools to charter schools, religious & secular private schools, & homeschooling.
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  10. Jan 28

    Speaking of WV, there's movement there too over an education omnibus bill

    Asked about the possibility of another walkout will happen over the 's omnibus education bill -- Dale Lee, president of -- says anything "is on the table."
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  11. Jan 28

    Shades of the 2018 WV teacher strike, this time in Richmond, Virginia.

    Some scenes from the march to the Capitol
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  12. Jan 28

    Richard Ojeda, a populist military veteran who won election to the WV Senate, unsuccessfully ran for an open seat in WV-3 last fall, & then resigned from the Senate to run for president, has ended his presidential campaign.

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  13. Jan 28

    Cool stuff coming on the podcast...

    It's been a couple of weeks since our last episode, but we've got a slate of great interviews coming soon, including one on the 100th anniversary of a "hillbilly"-centric institution. Check us out at or subscribe here:
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  14. Jan 28

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    Brazilian surfer Rodrigo Koxa broke the world record for the highest wave ever surfed (82 feet), during a session in Nazare, Portugal.
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    Jan 28

    Freelance journos in the Rust Belt/Appalachia/the South can provide the nuance national stories often lack. In my latest for , , , & explain how independent outlets can improve coverage

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  16. Jan 27

    Bill moving through WV legislature would provide more $$ for schools but also weaken job protections & unions while transferring funding from increasingly empty public schools to charter schools, religious & secular private schools, & homeschooling.

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    Jan 25

    they really announced the Hillbilly Elegy's move to Netflix on UMWA's 129th birthday

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  18. Retweeted
    Jan 24

    There are many pictures at our State Capitol, but this is one of my favorites. Robert Carr, who was Senate President in 1889

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  19. Jan 24

    Public housing residents + other poor, disabled, elderly & vulnerable people, are becoming a 1st wave of climate migrants in the US—people selectively displaced by increasingly frequent storms & floods, moved because they can't afford to stay.

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  20. Jan 24

    Jim Jordan, meet Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. IE the progressive stars of the new House Democratic majority versus the GOP House Freedom Caucus.

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