Archive: What’s on your mind blog

GUEST BLOG |  Project Hummingbird Data Center: What Would a Fair Deal For Greene County Residents Look Like?

By CCJ / March 4, 2026
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This is the 26th installment in our What’s on your mind? blog series and was written by Karl Hursey. Have something on your mind? Write about it! Please read this blog for more information. Karl is a retired health care professional who has lived in Greene County for over 25 years. He would like to ensure other families have […]

Review of Beaver Land

By Jason Capello / August 22, 2024
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Reading Suggestion: The Naturalist Series  This is the 25th installment in our What’s on your mind? blog series and was written by CCJ Community Advocate Jason Capello. Have something on your mind? Write about it! Please read this blog for more information. Beaver Land: How One Weird Rodent Made America by Leila Philip explores the profound impact of beavers on […]

Remembering and Honoring a Coal Miner’s Daughter – as an Oil-and-Gas Worker’s Daughter

By Tonya Yoders / October 25, 2022
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This is the 24th installment in our What’s on your mind? blog series and was written by CCJ Community Organizer Tonya Yoders. Have something on your mind? Write about it! Please read this blog for more information. Growing up in rural Appalachia, on a dirt road in a single-wide trailer, forty-five minutes from the nearest grocery store, I […]

How to Better Your Community with Mutual Aid

By Saint Soulaani / August 31, 2022
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The term mutual aid has popped up more within the last two years, yet it has been around for quite some time. Since the start of the pandemic, thousands of mutual aid projects have created a space where people in communities can access necessities including food, clothes, personal protective equipment, shelter, and other needs.

We Could Owe Flag Day to a SWPA Native

By Ethan Story / June 14, 2022
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On June 14, 1777, the United States officially adopted Old Glory as our national flag. Interestingly enough, Pennsylvania remains the only state in the nation to honor Flag Day as a legal holiday. 

I-70 Accidents and “Construction” over Tunnel Ridge

By Tonya Yoders / June 10, 2022
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This is the 21st installment in our What’s on your mind? blog series and was written by CCJ Community Organizer Tonya Yoders. Almost every day, I have to drive the stretch of I-70 interstate between Washington, PA and Wheeling, WV. More often than not, there are significant delays just trying to get to my destination. […]

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