I want to talk about jobs and health care and pension security and what we're going to do to stop the brain drain in Ohio and make it possible for our young people to stay here and build a life in Ohio rather than in Pennsylvania or West Virginia or God knows where.

We also notified the larger trucking firms in Ohio, West Virginia and Maryland of the closure.

People in West Virginia do have cars. We have indoor plumbing. We even use knives and forks.

In the false American imagination, West Virginia is a joke or else it's a charity case; but more than anything it is unseen, an invisible architecture of labor and struggle; and incarceration shares this invisibility, hidden at the center of everything; our slipshod remedy for an abiding fear, danger pinned to human bodies and then slotted into bunk beds you can't see from any highway.

When enacted, health care reform provides generous tax credits to help people afford their health insurance premiums.

I grew up in Palestine, West Virginia, which is mostly a farming community; there aren't a lot of jobs.