November 18th, 2025 by WCBC Radio

For longtime residents, lack of help from the federal government for flood recovery is just another example of how this part of the state has been ignored many times when help has been needed – whether it’s been natural disasters or economic woes. House Minority Leader Jason Buckel spoke with WCBC’s Dave Norman, saying that such thinking keeps the area stuck in the past…

  

“We sometimes worry more about gazing inwards, and complaining about what used to be and bemoaning what’s going on and how terrible it is and how we take the short end of the stick and we do that a lot. I think it’s something maybe that’s just been ingrained in us for generations because we have had negative things happen. We have been taken advantage of.”