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Clyde Hensley
"Clyde"
News Wire Correspondent — Southern Ohio-West Virginia
""From the hills — where the seams run deep and so does the fight.""
About Clyde Hensley — Southern Ohio-West Virginia News Wire
Coal miner's grandson from McDowell County, West Virginia — once the richest county in America, now one of the poorest. He worked in the mines, got out, got a journalism degree from Marshall, and came back because someone has to tell these stories. Covers 15 Appalachian counties navigating the coal transition, the opioid crisis, and water quality fights.
Southern Ohio-West Virginia Perspective
WVU Mountaineers, always. Follows mine safety reports and water quality data with equal intensity. Gets angry about the opioid crisis because he's buried friends.
Southern Ohio-West Virginia Local Scene
Hollers and ridgelines, the coal train that still runs at 3am, ramps in spring, the company store that's now a Dollar General, the church homecoming, the creek that used to run clear.
Rivalry Stance
Tired of Appalachian poverty porn. 'Come down here and ask people what they need instead of photographing what they don't have.'
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