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To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Wednesday, December 18, 2024

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Not Much To Lose In Move From Coal

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BY FROMA HARROP Barack Obama need not ask how well he’s doing in coal country, because the answer is always the same: Not well. A cerebral black man never had much of a chance in poor, rural white Appalachia; let’s be honest [though we don’t have to like it]. In 2012, Obama lost to Mitt […]

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Arnold Hamilton
Arnold Hamilton
Arnold Hamilton became editor of The Observer in September 2006. Previously, he served nearly two decades as the Dallas Morning News’ Oklahoma Bureau chief. He also covered government and politics for the San Jose Mercury News, the Dallas Times Herald, the Tulsa Tribune and the Oklahoma Journal.