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Managing Editor, KHOU-TV, 11 News, Houston, Texas
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Commentary: ‘Grievance politics’ thrives on chaos and confusion. That’s our system now.

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By Bill Bishop 
| Hoptown Chronicle
Columnist Chris Clayton [writing for Progressive Farmer magazine]  noticed something odd in the Trump Administration’s budget for the Department of Agriculture. Since the USDA is the federal government’s primary contact with rural America, Clayton expected to see the word “rural” in the document. And it was there — 12 times in 92 pages. But there were other words that seemed to crop up in USDA’s budget more often than rural. Clayton counted.
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‘Grievance politics’ thrives on chaos and confusion. That’s our system now

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By Bill Bishop 
| Yahoo
President Donald Trump tours the assembly line at the Ford River Rouge Complex on Jan. 13, 2026 in Dearborn, Michigan. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) Columnist Chris Clayton noticed something odd in the Trump Administration’s budget for the Department of Agriculture. Since the USDA is the federal government’s primary contact with rural America, Clayton expected to see the word “rural” in the document. And it was there – 12 times in 92 pages.
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2 explosions, 26 dead: Remembering Scotia at 50

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By Bill Bishop 
| The Mountain Eagle
The family of a miner who was killed in March 1976 in the Scotia mine disaster mourns after his burial. (Photo by Earl Dotter) At 11:15 in the morning of March 9, 1976, Virgil Coots, a foreman at the Scotia coal mine, called to the surface. “You’ve cut off all my air,” Coots complained. A few minutes later, he made another call. “I’m not getting any air,” Coots said. “I’m coming down to see what the problem is.” Coots never made it.
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