On this week's encore broadcast of Mountain Stage, you'll hear performances from Bettye LaVette, Kim Richey, Keller Williams, The Langan Band, and Megan Jean’s Secret Family. This episode was recorded live at the Templeton-Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium in Athens, Ohio with our friends at Ohio University and WOUB.
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On The Legislature Today, Republican leaders this week released their 2018 budget framework and progressed a bill to reform the state’s tax system, while Gov. Jim Justice made changes to his budget bill that he says will result in a $54 million surplus next year.
Cardinal Institute for West Virginia Policy Executive Director Garrett Ballengee and Senior Policy Analyst for the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy Sean O’Leary discuss the plans.
The House Judiciary Committee took its first look at a bill to expand broadband internet access in the state. Liz McCormick reports the bill’s goal is for all West Virginians to have access by 2020.
Senators are still debating a bill that explicitly repeals Common Core in West Virginia, even though the standards are no longer being taught in West Virginia schools. The bill would have also required the West Virginia Board of Education to adopt education standards that are some 20 years old, but that portion of the bill was amended on the floor.
On this West Virginia Morning, with homelessness on the rise, WVPB checks in with providers about support services in Charleston. And the latest episode of Us & Them looks at how inconsistent abortion laws pit states against each other.
On this week's encore broadcast of Mountain Stage, you'll hear performances from Bettye LaVette, Kim Richey, Keller Williams, The Langan Band, and Megan Jean’s Secret Family. This episode was recorded live at the Templeton-Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium in Athens, Ohio with our friends at Ohio University and WOUB.
On this West Virginia Morning, know what what to look out for and how to stay safe as extremely cold temperatures and snow linger in the region. And as coyotes grow in population in West Virginia, wildlife professionals say it is important to take precaution.
New legislative agendas at the state level aim to chip away at reproductive rights, even in states that recently passed constitutional protections for abortion. On this episode of Us & Them, Host Trey Kay examines how conservative state supreme courts might limit voter-approved amendments — and how abortion-friendly states are pushing back. Meanwhile, President Trump’s new administration could override all state laws through certain executive actions, including one involving a 19th century anti-vice law. Now that the election’s over, what’s next for abortion?