In Bokoshe, ash stirs health debate

 
BY MICHAEL BAKER
Published: May 2, 2010

BOKOSHE — The three men in their 60s sit in Sassy’s Place — the only cafe in this small eastern Oklahoma town of 463 people — ticking off the names of neighbors and matching illnesses as if reading off a grocery list.

And while all three of the longtime Bokoshe-area residents stop short of blaming the coal ash disposal pit just south of town for all their neighbors’ illnesses, they do se...


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