The Friends of Coal completed work on two new radio spots since the last Coal Bits – one focused on the Coal Symposium and another “Welcome Home” spot for our recently returned National Guard units, recognizing their service during the first period in which all units have been home from deployment since the War on Terror began almost 11 years ago.
Listen for them on your local radio station.
GOLF COURSE COURTESY OF TECO COAL CORPORATION
LOCATION: Raven Rock Golf Course
US Route 23, Jenkins, Kentucky
DATE: Tues. April 10, 2012
TIME: 10:30–Registration
11:15 - Lunch
12:00 (NOON) SHOTGUN START
FORMAT: 4-Person Scramble
ENTRY FEE: $75/Person; $300/Team
(Includes: Lunch, Golf, Cart, Drinks, Prizes)
MAKE CHECK PAYABLE TO: CEDAR, INC.
Mail Completed Form(s) & Check to: P. O. Box 2152, Pikeville, KY 41502
GOLF REGISTRATIONS & HOLE SPONSORSHIPS ARE DUE BY ***MONDAY, MARCH 26, 2012***
By Bill Raney, president
West Virginia Coal Association
Washington is broken. That much is obvious even to a sixth grader. While far too many Americans struggle with months or even years of unemployment, with foreclosure, with skyrocketing energy and food prices, there is a growing sense that nobody in Washington is listening.
Americans are increasingly fed up with “business as usual” in Washington. They want leaders with common sense, someone who puts the country ahead of party loyalty or some political agenda – someone who says what they think but is willing to listen as well as talk.
West Virginians are lucky. Sen. Joe Manchin is just that kind of leader.
What the administration requires will cost Americans a ton of money
The supporters of the Obama administration have a clear vision of the nation's energy future. It involves windmills and solar arrays - but not coal. They don't like carbon.
The administration takes no responsibility for whether the resulting power supply will be adequate, reliable or affordable. Accordingly, it has tasked the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to kill the coal industry and coal-burning utilities as rapidly as possible through regulation.
Out in America, however, people are responsible for whether Americans have power they can afford.