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    Eastern Standard - April 24th, 2025
    Tom Martin
    Tracking “cause and effect” of the Trump administration’s federal funding and staffing cuts brings us to the closures of Mine Safety and Health Administration inspection offices in Kentucky
  • In her book "Stolen Pride," Arlie Hochschild describes the “pride paradox” she documented in Eastern Kentucky.
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    Eastern Standard - April 17th, 2025
    Tom Martin
    In her book “Stolen Pride,” the Berkeley professor emerita Arlie Russell Hochschild uses reactions to a 2017 white supremacist march in Pikeville as a window into the political and sociological shifts that have transformed the country.
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