On Saturday people with disabilities can practice the airport and flight experience at Yeager Airport. Airport Director and CEO of Yeager Airport Dominique Ranieri said this is the second “Wings for All” event in a Friday statement.
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West Virginia Public Broadcasting’s Energy and Environment Reporter Brittany Patterson joins us again on The Legislature Today to lead a discussion exploring environmental issues in West Virginia. She brings us a special report from Minden, West Virginia, and she chats with a lawmaker in the House of Delegates who’s also an environmental scientist.
An explosive meeting in the House Government Organization Committee led to heated remarks on the House floor. In committee, members discussed an amendment to a bill that would have prevented adding protected classes not currently stipulated in state code when making changes to city regulations and requirements. As Senior Statehouse Reporter Dave Mistich reports, the amendment failed 10-12, but it sparked heated conversation about civil rights for the LGBTQ community.
Hundreds of West Virginians who have served in the military came to the Capitol with specific requests for lawmakers. Reporter Randy Yohe has this report.
Del. Evan Hansen, D-Monongalia, speaks with Reporter Brittany Patterson, and we hear updates to a decades-old environmental nightmare for the small Fayette County town of Minden.
On this West Virginia Week, the governor and the state's newest senator took their oaths of office. We’ll also hear about an inclusive community, as well as changing access to books in Tennessee’s prisons, and we explore the past and future of a historic building in Shepherdstown.
This week on Inside Appalachia, a West Virginia baker draws on her Finnish heritage to make a different kind of cinnamon roll. Also, for nearly a century, some of Appalachia’s best wood carvers have trained at a North Carolina folk school. Newcomers are still welcomed in to come learn the craft. And, we have a conversation with Kentucky poet Willie Carver Jr.
On this West Virginia Morning, we hear from a West Virginia Division of Natural Resources biologist about a program to give new habitats to local fish with old Christmas trees, and from The Allegheny Front learning how to identify the trees around us.