As opioid abuse ravages Appalachia, the number of babies dependent on drugs and children forced into foster care rises after addicted parents die, are jailed or put into treatment. Who cares for them?
Deanna McKinney lost her only child in a tragic night of gun violence in Charleston, W.Va. Trey Kay focused an episode of his “Us & Them” podcast on what happened next in a moving portrait of a mother who would not be cowed.
Felling hopeless and helpless about the future of West Virginia? You’re just not hanging out with the right people, says Michael Tierney, co-founder of the West Virginia Activist Archive.