Dear Editor, People occasionally will ask about my upbringing, family life and Appalachia roots. So, here is my song that I wrote and recorded titled Coal Miner’s Son. Maybe you can relate to some parts of the following lyrics.  Daddy slept all day, worked all night Got home early by dawn’s daylight. Mommy made gravy biscuits and eggs fried apples, we had it made. Worked in the fields, cut a little hay, Friday morning, daddy got paid. Cows in the fields, hogs in the lot, morning and the  evening we made a little slop.  Bought some food at Grandpa’s store,…

Dear Editor, It’s beginning to look like the Supreme Court is going to be tested in a couple of dicey situations looming on the horizon. Very soon, it will be expected to rule on whether the states have the right, under section three of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, to decide who is eligible to appear on their ballots for elected offices. The court recently ruled, in the Dobbs decision, the states have the authority to decide a woman’s access to health care in the form of an abortion, no matter the circumstances, whether it is necessary or…

Dear Editor, It’s beginning to look like the Supreme Court is going to be tested in a couple of dicey situations looming on the horizon. Very soon, it will be expected to rule on whether the states have the right, under section three of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, to decide who is eligible to appear on their ballots for elected offices. The court recently ruled, in the Dobbs decision, the states have the authority to decide a woman’s access to health care in the form of an abortion, no matter the circumstances, whether it is necessary or…