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Miners block coal from leaving Pike County after weeks without pay

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“Somebody’s gotta stand up”: Miners block coal from leaving Pike County after weeks without pay

About a dozen miners are still on the tracks in Kimper Tuesday, enduring the rainy weather as they demand the pay they are owed. Pike County miners are blocking a train loaded with coal from leaving a mine in Kimper.

About 50 employees claim they have not been paid since mid-December.

"I'm starving. I about lost everything I own and I'm tired of it," said one miner. "Somebody's gotta stand up to these guys and I guess it's us."

Around 12:30 p.m. miners said they could see a pay stub for two weeks' pay show up in their work accounts, but the money has not arrived in their bank accounts yet.

David Wallace-Wells on the horrors of climate change – Vox

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The Uninhabitable Earth: David Wallace-Wells on the horrors of climate change – Vox

That was was the first line of David Wallace-Wells’s horrifying 2017 essay in New York magazine about climate change. It was an attempt to paint a very real picture of our not-too-distant future, a future filled with famines, political chaos, economic collapse, fierce resource competition, and a sun that “cooks us.”

Wallace-Wells has since developed his terrifying essay into an even more terrifying book, titled The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming. And it is a brutal read. Wallace-Wells was criticized in 2017 for being too hyperbolic, too doom-and-gloomy. But as Vox’s David Roberts explained at the time, those criticisms were mostly misplaced.

Wallace-Wells isn’t counseling despair or saying all is lost; he’s merely laying out the alarming facts of what is likely to happen if we don’t radically change course.

Yes, I should report some of the high number of street lights out in my neighborhood

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Yes, I should report some of the high number of street lights out in my neighborhood… :idea:

I’ve noticed lately that there are many street lights out in my neighborhood when I go for my evening walk. In some cases there are whole blocks of sidewalk with the lights out. Reporting street lights out is easy online. I am sure dozens of neighbors have also walked by them and not reported them either.

But National Grid is legally required to send out a crew and repair them, and not only does working street lights improve safety, it also means that town street lighting district tax payers are getting what they pay for – they pay a flat rate for each street light whether or not it is actually on and burning electricity or is burned out and dark.