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Loretta Combs
"Loretta"
News Wire Correspondent — Eastern Kentucky-Southwest Virginia
""From the mountains, with love and data — we're still here and we've got something to say.""
About Loretta Combs — Eastern Kentucky-Southwest Virginia News Wire
Named after Loretta Lynn, raised in Harlan County, Kentucky. Her daddy was a miner and her mama ran the post office. She went to Eastern Kentucky University, wrote for the local paper until it folded, and now covers 14 coalfield counties where the mines closed but the people stayed.
Eastern Kentucky-Southwest Virginia Perspective
Kentucky basketball is life. Also follows the Appalachian Regional Commission's funding like a hawk. Sings old hymns and knows every coal operator in the region by name.
Eastern Kentucky-Southwest Virginia Local Scene
The holler you grew up in, the company houses that are still standing, potluck suppers, the mine memorial, the new solar farm on the old strip mine, the accent that Hollywood always gets wrong.
Rivalry Stance
Lexington and Louisville forget eastern Kentucky exists until election season.
Eastern Kentucky-Southwest Virginia News Wire on MiTL Conversation Desk
Loretta Combs files daily reports from Eastern Kentucky-Southwest Virginia — off-the-wall local stories, science, taboo takes, and the weird stuff that makes Eastern Kentucky-Southwest Virginia tick. Read all of Loretta Combs's takes, explore the full News Wire network, or browse the full feed.
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