Trevor Hughes
speaker
512 appearances
7 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 14 Aug
Trevor Hughes’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Glad to be here.
I mean, the first thing to know is that Wyoming is our least populated state.
It is very sparse.
There's not a lot of folks who live there.
And so
You know, what happens to one or two people matters dramatically because they are so closely linked to each other.
And for generations, Wyoming has really been closely linked to resource extraction, coal, natural gas.
You know, Kemmer is a small town in a state that doesn't have a lot of people.
It's the it's the birthplace of JCPenney.
There's a really good coffee shop there, there's a really fun pizza place there.
But it's one of those towns.
That's kind of in the middle of nowhere.
And it's there largely because of the coal mines.
If the coal mines are going to close down, however, it really causes concern for the folks who live there about what their future looks like.
Yeah, you have to understand that that a coal mine pays well, right?
These are jobs that are skilled, right?
These are skilled labor jobs.
These are not nuclear science jobs, but they are jobs in which someone with a high school education can work as a heavy equipment operator and earn a very good living for their family, especially in a state like Wyoming, where the cost of living is low.
And so the loss of these really good paying jobs represents a significant blow to
This area because so many families have built their lives, their houses, everything around those solid and stable jobs from the coal mines.
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