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Kansas firefighters union advocating for staffing increase alleges government violated free speech

  • Anna Kaminski

TOPEKA — A Kansas firefighters union and county government are “at loggerheads with each other,” a federal judge said Wednesday, complaining they threw the case at him to solve after months of conflict. The Kansas City, Kansas Professional Firefighters Association’s lawsuit against the Unified Government of Wyandotte County was filed against the backdrop of a […]

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Appalachia’s black lung rates highest in nearly 50 years as miners’ protections stall

  • Justin Hicks, Howard Berkes

This story was published through the Appalachian News Exchange, a regional media collaboration.  Respiratory therapist Marcy Freeman doesn’t need a research study to confirm for her a return to the dark days of coal mining. She finds evidence in a stack of more than 150 funeral programs, all for former patients at her pulmonary rehabilitation […]