This past weekend Eastern Kentuckians lost a prominent Appalachian activist and healthcare pioneer as Pike County native and Floyd County mainstay Eula Hall passed away.
On Saturday, May 8, Eastern Kentucky said goodbye to Eula Hall, as she passed away at her residence. Hall, age 93, of Craynor, widow of McKinley Hall, was born Oct. 29, 1927 in Greasy Creek, Pike County and since, has often been referred to as a âhero,â âlegendâ and many other celebratory adjectives for the trailblazing role she played throughout Eastern Kentucky.
Hall, who founded the Mud Creek Clinic, dedicated her life to helping others, a mission that took her from the picket line on strip mining jobs back in the 1960s to picket lines in Floyd County, when she was working to ensure all students had the right to free and reduced-priced lunches at school. Along the winding back roads of Floyd County, she transported people to and from medical appointments and other places they needed to go. Sh
WNKY 40 News
May 13, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced today 27 community service agencies and educational organizations received a total of $4,299,950 to provide necessary childcare and learning services during the coronavirus pandemic. The federal funding, distributed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Head Start, was made available by the bipartisan Coronavirus Relief and Response Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2020. Senator McConnell negotiated the coronavirus rescue bill and led it to enactment in December.
“Kentucky’s childcare and early-education providers have worked courageously during the coronavirus pandemic to create safe and nurturing environments for the next generation in the Bluegrass. I’m proud they’re receiving federal resources from the big and bipartisan COVID rescue bill I championed to continue their important work,”
As India Re-Works Afghan Strategy, Republican Leader Says US Withdrawal From Afghanistan A Bad Decision
President Joe Biden’s announcement to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan has fuelled curiosity over India’s possible role in the war-ravaged country after September 11.
News agency AFP reported that US-led NATO had agreed in April to wrap up their 9,600-strong mission in Afghanistan after Biden’s call to end America’s longest war on the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks.
“NATO Allies decided in mid-April to start the withdrawal of Resolute Support Mission forces by May 1 and this withdrawal has begun. This will be an orderly, coordinated, and deliberate process,” a NATO official told AFP.
McConnell was Tuesdays’ KVML “Newsmaker of the Day”. Here are his words:
“Early on, a major theme of the Biden Administration has been false advertising.
We have the so-called ‘COVID relief bill’ that broke a long bipartisan streak on pandemic response and only spent 1% of the money on vaccinations.
We have the reintroduction of a sprawling election takeover bill that Democrats wrote years ago under the guise that it’s a common-sense voting rights bill.
We have a President who ran on protecting norms flirting with proposals to hot-wire the Senate’s rules and pack the Supreme Court.
And then we have the latest example, where even one Ivy League expert says Democrats’ spin ‘does a bit of violence to the English language.’
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U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell made a stop in Pikeville April 8 to visit Pikeville Medical Center (PMC) and discuss the medical centerâs COVID-19 vaccine distribution efforts.
âI want to thank Donovan Blackburn (PMC CEO) and his entire team as Pike County has done better than any other county in Kentucky in getting the vaccine administered to people,â McConnell said. âIf youâre a football fan you know what the red zone is. Itâs the last 20 yards before the end zone and today in Pikeville I think we can safely say weâre in the red zone but weâre not in the end zone yet.â