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    SPOTLIGHT: Of Black Hair & Confederate History in the WV Legislature

    March 18, 2021 /

    Legislation is moving quickly to allow Confederate monuments to remain on the West Virginia Capitol grounds while the Crown Act to ban Black hair discrimination stalls.

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  • NewsoftheDay,  Stories

    CDC says Kanawha County WV HIV outbreak is the most concerning in America

    February 16, 2021 /

    A top U.S. government health official says the rise in HIV cases in Kanawha County WV linked to injection drug use is currently the “most concerning [outbreak] in the United States," rivaling all the cases in New York City in 2019.

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  • NewsoftheDay,  Stories

    Behind West Virginia’s vaccine success story, chaos for local health departments

    January 16, 2021 /

    A surprise announcement from Gov. Jim Justice to begin vaccinating the general public caught county health departments in West Virginia — responsible for coordinating the state’s frontline response to the pandemic — off guard.

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  • NewsoftheDay,  Stories

    What happened when WV Gov. Jim Justice charged ‘broadband’ expenses to the CARES Act

    December 18, 2020 /

    What happened when Gov. Jim Justice promised this Fall to expand broadband and hook more families, schools, and industries to the Internet in rural West Virginia, using COVID relief funding? Not much, reports Mountain State Spotlight.

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  • NewsoftheDay,  Stories

    West Virginia’s minor league baseball teams suffer major league disappointment

    December 11, 2020 /

    West Virginia has a rich baseball past, with affiliated pro teams going back over a century, but Major League Baseball just cut its ties to the state's four minor league teams.

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  • NewsoftheDay,  Stories

    With deadline looming, critics question WV governor’s CARES Act priorities, unspent funds

    December 8, 2020 /

    Mountain State Spotlight takes a deep dive into WV Gov. Jim Justice's confounding inaction in allotting $1.25 million in CARES Act Covid relief funding to businesses and families in need in West Virginia, as a deadline looms for disbursing the funds.

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    5 QUESTIONS: Kyle Vass on street-level addiction reporting & telling audio stories

    December 6, 2020 /

    Multimedia journalist Kyle Vass on hitting the streets of Charleston WV to report on the addiction crisis and the art of audio storytelling.

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  • NewsoftheDay,  Stories

    AUDIO: When Clean Needles Disappeared, People Turned To Used Ones

    December 6, 2020 /

    The City of Charleston WV's attempts to quash the distribution of clean needles to users on the streets—which has constrained efforts undertaken by a group called SOAR—has had the consequence of increasing the dangers and hazards of addiction, reports WVPB.

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    EDITORIAL: Shelley Moore Capito Remains Missing-In-Action

    December 4, 2020 /

    It is Dec. 4—28 days after the 2020 U.S. presidential election was called for Biden/Harris. Yet WV Sen. Shelley Moore Capito has yet to formally recognize Biden as President-Elect or repudiated Donald Trump's dangerous lies about election fraud lies.

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  • NewsoftheDay,  Photos/Video,  Stories

    ATTENTION, TEACHERS: And students at home—A chance to learn more about racism

    December 2, 2020 /

    Our documentary, “WHAT’S IN A NAME: A West Virginia Community Confronts a Confederate Legacy,” will screen 7 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020 on WVPB. The documentary and resources we've gathered lay the groundwork for a better understanding and even more thoughtful discussion of the history of racism in America, and how institutional racism continues to affect our daily life.

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  • Editorial,  NewsoftheDay,  Photos/Video,  Stories

    EDITORIAL: Counting Down the Days of “No Show” Capito’s Snub of Biden-Harris

    November 23, 2020 /

    You'd think by now WV Sen. Capito might look over her shoulder and recall what it feels like to have a backbone now that Trump is slowly evaporating into a disgruntled mist. Yet 15 days after the election was called for Biden-Harris, she has yet to formally congratulate them.

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  • NewsoftheDay,  Stories

    Homeless in Huntington WV: A View From the Street

    November 21, 2020 /

    Homeless on the streets of Huntington WV in a time of pandemic is as difficult as it ever was. Douglas J. Harding hears first-hand about life on the streets of West Virginia's second largest city as cold weather sets in.

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  • NewsoftheDay,  Stories

    What now, West Virginia?

    November 12, 2020 /

    Want a shopping list of the challenges West Virginia faces in addressing Covid-19, the future of energy, poverty, a Legislature full of white guys, and beyond? This Mountain State Spotlight post-election roundup has you covered.

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    EDITORIAL | “Pills & Suits,” a Justice Project Video

    October 29, 2020 /

    In an illustrated excerpt from Pulitzer-winner Eric Eyre's "DEATH IN MUD LICK," he describes WV Attorney General's Patrick Morrisey's entanglement with one of the huge pharmaceutical companies that helped spawn the opioid crisis, and the devastation that continues to affect families.

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  • Editorial,  NewsoftheDay,  Stories

    EDITORIAL | A Shelley Moore Capito Reader

    October 29, 2020 /

    We present for your reading and viewing interest a selection of three items pertinent to the candidacy and further office-holding of the Republican senator from West Virginia, Shelley Moore Capito.

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  • NewsoftheDay,  Poetics

    POEM | “The Greats” by PJ Laska

    October 28, 2020 /

    ‘The Great Tower/ The Great  Wall/ The Great Power/ Conquering All/ The Great Look/ The Great Weave/ The Great Assets/ Of Make-Believe … ‘ | A Poem by PJ Laska

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  • Editorial,  NewsoftheDay,  Photos/Video,  Stories

    EDITORIAL: The Art of the Trumpian Limerick

    October 27, 2020 /

    As Donald Trump's first term limps towards its end, we drop in on a Trumpian chronicler. West Virginia poet and writer Colleen Anderson has been chronicling Trump's misrule for four years now—in limericks.

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  • Editorial,  NewsoftheDay,  Photos/Video,  Stories

    EDITORIAL: “The West Virginia Hills” and the Race for WV Attorney General

    October 26, 2020 /

    On the one hand in this year's election contests in West Virginia, you've got state Attorney General Patrick Morrisey and his Trump-Adoring, Big Pharma connections, and Affordable Care Act Torpedoing Ways. On the other hand, there's labor lawyer Sam Brown Petsonk. Here's are two minutes about that.

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  • NewsoftheDay,  Stories,  The Future

    EDITORIAL: “The Silent Senator Capito,” A Justice Project Video

    October 18, 2020 /

    Waiting on WV Senator Shelley Moore Capito to do the right thing—not just mouth the right thing—you might notice your hair turn another color and not from hair dye. So, WestVirginiaVille points its second Justice Project editorial video her way.

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  • NewsoftheDay,  Stories

    COVID CHRONICLES | One in Eight Million

    October 16, 2020 /

    We begin our new occasional series 'Covid Chronicles' with a personal report from WestVirginiaVille's Minister of Paragraphs, Connie Kinsey, who was just recently diagnosed with a—we pray it stays that way—mild case of Covd-19.

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