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Kentucky Kernel

The Student News Site of University of Kentucky

Kentucky Kernel

Family photo, Johnson County, circa 1950s. Hannah Wests Mawmaw is pictured in the center.

Mountain Plea

Hannah West March 4, 2020

Recently I was driving through Eastern Kentucky, a drive I make often to visit family. For years I have driven or ridden through the gentle mountains and stared out the window of the car. I have seen the...

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It’s time to rethink the importance of coal mining careers

Kellsie Kennedy January 17, 2019

Kentucky’s coal production has decreased to less than half its annual production in 2010. At the same time, Kentucky has seen a mining employment rate drop from 17,000 in 2010 to 6,600 in 2017.This is...

Why cryptocurrencies are relevant in today’s economy

Dalton Stokes March 6, 2018

For about six months now, Bitcoin has been making headlines for making people nearly instant millionaires when it went up by a scale factor of around twenty.There has been a slight increase in interest...

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