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    Some formerly incarcerated West Virginians can’t vote. Others can, but may not know it.

    October 14, 2020 /

    The hue and cry has gone out—get out there and vote! But in West Virginia, advocates say education about voting rights for people with prison time or records, as well as after they get out, is often unclear—and that changes are needed to keep former inmates from being disenfranchised.

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  • NewsoftheDay,  Photos/Video,  Stories,  The Past

    MINI-DOC | “What’s In a Name?” The Deeper Story Behind a WV Confederate Legacy

    October 8, 2020 /

    The removal of a Confederate general's name from the former Stonewall Jackson Middle School in West Virginia's capital city this Summer was more than just a cosmetic change. In 2020, America confronted the wounds that have haunted the country’s existence. The renaming of the school laid bare that history.

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  • NewsoftheDay

    As opioid trial looms in West Virginia, the firms being sued get huge COVID-19 contracts from the Trump administration

    September 26, 2020 /

    The "Big Three" prescription drug firms responsible for fueling the devastating toll of West Virginia's opioid crisis are earning praise and contracts from the Trump adminstration as a key trial holding them to task approaches Oct. 19

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  • NewsoftheDay,  Stories

    WV governor ‘tweaked’ a Harvard COVID map. Their experts say the state’s changes are flawed.

    September 22, 2020 /

    The adminstration of WV Gov. Jim Justice has relied on outdated COVID-19 data for determing each county’s risk level and altered the methodology for determining the total number of cases. A Mountain State Spotlight reprinted investigation.

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  • NewsoftheDay,  Photos/Video

    VIDEO: “Say Their Names”

    August 30, 2020 /

    There are a lot of names of black people, killed by police officers on this list. Below are all the names on the list. Some famous, a few historic. All of them individuals who were loved, who had dreams. Who, like you and I—had issues and challenges, joys and loves. Trying to figure out life, in all its messiness and pain.

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  • Editorial,  NewsoftheDay,  Stories,  The Future

    GUEST POST: The Not-So-Natural Gas Boom

    August 10, 2020 /

    Natural gas and the fracking boom have changed the landscape, politics and economics of West Virginia. Sean O'Leary of the Ohio River Valley Institute addresses the claims of "a veritable rock star proponent of 'the natural gas economy.' And finds all nine of his "irrefutable energy truths,” in fact, quite refutable.

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  • NewsoftheDay,  Photos/Video,  Stories

    VIDEO: Pulitzer Prize-winner Joins West Virginia Investigative Non-Profit

    July 28, 2020 /

    Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Eric Eyre will be joining the investigative staff of the new West Virginia non-profit watchdog outfit Mountain State Spotlight.

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  • 5 Questions,  NewsoftheDay,  Photos/Video,  Q-and-A,  Stories

    5 QUESTIONS: When Life Hands You Quarantine, You Make a Web Series Out of It

    July 23, 2020 /

    Curren Sheldon and Tijah Bumgarner are the wizards behind the extremely entertaining web series, "Quarantine Life," which asks—and answers—the question: What do two mondo-talented West Virginia filmmakers do during a global pandemic that has locked down the usual creative projects into which they had been pouring their life force?

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  • NewsoftheDay,  Stories

    DRAGLINE: The Pro-Pipeline Editorial by the Pipeline Industry CEO/Publisher

    July 21, 2020 /

    “It’s damn easy to figure out what has been lost,” Doug Reynolds wrote in his West Virginia newspapers, “but for the life of me I can’t ascertain who won.” What Reynolds fails to mention is what exactly is losing: his natural gas pipeline construction company.

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  • NewsoftheDay,  Photos/Video,  Stories,  The Past

    TRAILER: A Peek at “Bye-Bye, Stonewall” mini-doc

    July 15, 2020 /

    Here's a peek from the trailer to WestVirginiaVille's upcoming mini-documentary, "Bye-Bye, Stonewall," on the years-long backstory on how a school in a black neighborhood in West Virginia's capital city finally got free of Confederate general Stonewall Jackson's name and mug.

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  • NewsoftheDay,  Photos/Video,  Stories

    VIDEO: When the Confederate Flag Cuts and Runs

    July 7, 2020 /

    We direct your amusement to this Tiffany Thouartdope Finkton insta-rap. She made it after capturing a special moment outside the Kaoard of Education meeting to consider renaming Stonewall Jackson Middle School in Charleston WV. The fellow who arrived with a Confederate flag was definitely not reading the room.

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  • NewsoftheDay,  Photos/Video,  Q-and-A,  Stories

    VIEW FROM THE PLAYGROUND: On Changing Stonewall Jackson Middle School’s Name

    July 5, 2020 /

    As adults decide the future of Stonewall Jackson Middle School's name at meeting Monday, July 6, 2020, we visited a playground in Charleston WV to find out what a group of students thought about the idea.

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  • NewsoftheDay,  Photos/Video,  Points of View,  Stories

    POINTS of VIEW | ‘If You’re Silent About Your Pain’

    July 3, 2020 /

    A LETTER TO NEUTRAL COLLEAGUES: "I realize you may be actually confused about whether blacks are offended or feel pain from reminders of that dark period. Zora Neale Neale Hurston once said: "If you're silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it." So, I will clarify that we are offended. We are in pain."

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  • NewsoftheDay,  Photos/Video,  Stories

    ‘ALEXANDRIA SPEAKS’: Why Stonewall Jackson Middle School Needs a New Name

    July 2, 2020 /

    Why rename a school long named for a Confederate general? Watch a 13-year-old student in Charleston WV tell why in an impassioned plea to the adults considering whether to rename her Stonewall Jackson Middle School.

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  • Editor's Notepad,  NewsoftheDay,  Photos/Video,  Stories

    STRIKE THIS WAY: A Crowdsourced Look at the 2018 WV Teacher’s Strike

    June 24, 2020 /

    We hereby enter these videos into the Multimedia Historical Records of the Great State of WestVirginiaVille. How Mitch got Ditched: a crowdsourced look at the beginnings of a purge.

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  • NewsoftheDay,  Photos/Video,  Stories

    UNMASKED! |A Pandemic Photo Project

    June 18, 2020 /

    Yes, of course you should still be wearing a mask in public. A second wave of infections? We're not even through the first. Here are some masked inspirations—followed by their unmasked selves.

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  • NewsoftheDay,  Photos/Video,  Stories

    PODCAST | A Coal River Homeless Camp Tale of Survival

    June 17, 2020 /

    Homelessness is something most people see on a regular basis here in West Virginia. But what about the homelessness we don't see? Kyle Vass takes us into a St. Albans homeless camp at the heart of community fight over their riverside existence.

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  • Editor's Notepad,  Music,  NewsoftheDay,  Stories

    EDITOR’S NOTEPAD: Mitch Gets Moved & WV Can’t Wait Begins a Movement

    June 10, 2020 /

    By Jove, West Virginia voters did indeed "Move Mitch, Get Out the Way." Meanwhile, the WV Can't Wait campaign of Stephen Smith came up short, but the start of its "movement" did not.

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  • NewsoftheDay,  Photos/Video,  Stories

    DRIVE-BY LOVE: Portrait of a Pop-Up Pride and Black Lives Matter Parade

    June 9, 2020 /

    There were balloons and streamers. There were rainbow flags. And lots of honks. A video/photographic portrait of a literally moving Pride and Black Lives Matter parade in Huntington WV on june6.2020

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    NewsoftheDay,  Photos/Video

    VIDEO: ‘They Know Who the Thugs Are”

    June 2, 2020 /

    Within the police department itself, there are some thugs and gangsters, says Rev. Matthew Watts. "And the police have to police themselves. They know who the thugs are! They know who the gangsters are!"

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