John Johnson: “I am struck with the proposition that the U.S. Supreme Court can one day overturn Brown v. Board of Education.”

I believe that there is something that the Federal Government can do, should do, and must do in order to help the people of Appalachia.

It gives me pause, and it should give all of our American people pause to think about what can happen with a U.S. Supreme Court that is improperly stacked with right-wing, bigoted justices.

We need to have a conversation, a fact-based conversation, on how to make the program work better.

Perhaps Congress may do well to create some legislation that would require these so-called independent studies by scientists to disclose who is actually funding their work.