Western Maryland Fracking Fight Reveals Differences

CUMBERLAND, Md. (AP) — Allegany and Garrett, the state’s two westernmost counties, tend to be lumped together as “Mountain Maryland,” their problems similar, their prospects equally muddled.
But the two counties’ economic issues — and their approaches to solving them — differ starkly.
In Allegany, many problems stem from the legacy of past reliance on “whales,” big employers with large numbers of good-paying jobs that lay waste to communities