Luke Popovich

Vice President of Communications, National Mining Association

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Vice President of Communications for the National Mining Association, an industry trade group based in Washington, DC

Luke Popovich on KCRW

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Fallout from  Arizona's new immigration law  has already reached the US Senate, where  Harry Reid  now say it's  time to deal  with what is, after all, a federal issue.

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Twenty-five miners are known to have died in this week's massive explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia.  The effort to rescue four men still unaccounted for may be a…

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Twenty-five miners are known to have died in this week's massive explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine in West Virginia.  The effort to rescue four men still unaccounted for may be a…

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