Taylor Sisk

1 week ago | dailyyonder.com | Taylor Sisk

By noon Friday, September 27, 2024, downtown Marshall was pretty much washed under, but Ainsley Bryce was as yet unaware. Bryce lives on a communal plot of land just outside Marshall, a town of 800 residents in the mountains of western North Carolina. When Hurricane Helene hit, communications were shut down, and roads into town were impassable. “We didn’t know the extent of how devastating it was,” she says.

2 weeks ago | dbrnews.com | Taylor Sisk

DANDRIDGE, Tenn. — Rachel Solomon and judges hadn’t been on the best of terms. Then Judge O. Duane Slone “dumbfounded” her. Solomon was given her first Percocet at age 12 by a family member with a medicine cabinet full. It made her feel numb, she said. “Nothing hurt.” By 17, she was taking 80-milligram OxyContins. A decade later, she was introduced to heroin. During those years, Solomon was in and out of trouble with the law.

3 weeks ago | inquirer.com | Taylor Sisk

In early April, President Donald Trump gathered dozens of hard-hat-clad coal miners around him in the White House East Room. He joked about arm-wrestling them and announced he was signing executive orders to boost coal production, "bringing back an industry that was abandoned," and to “put the miners back to work.”Trump said he calls it “beautiful, clean” coal.

3 weeks ago | gazettextra.com | Taylor Sisk

In early April, President Donald Trump gathered dozens of hard-hat-clad coal miners around him in the White House East Room. He joked about arm-wrestling them and announced he was signing executive orders to boost coal production, " bringing back an industry that was abandoned," and to "put the miners back to work."Trump said he calls it "beautiful, clean" coal. "I tell my people never use the word 'coal' unless you put 'beautiful, clean' before it."Copyright 2025 Tribune Content Agency.

3 weeks ago | dailygazette.com | Taylor Sisk

In early April, President Donald Trump gathered dozens of hard-hat-clad coal miners around him in the White House East Room. He joked about arm-wrestling them and announced he was signing executive orders to boost coal production, “bringing back an industry that was abandoned,” and to “put the miners back to work.”Trump said he calls it “beautiful, clean” coal.