Mary Anne Hitt: Conyers, Coal, and the Future of West Virginia

West Virginia state leaders are in an uproar this week over a remark about coal made by Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, elder statesman and one of the longest-serving members of the U.S. Congress. With all the angry statements coming from the likes of Senator Joe Manchin and Governor Earl Ray Tomblin, you'd think that Rep. Conyers had called us West Virginians a bunch of inbred hillbillies (oh, wait -- that came from coal…

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