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On this West Virginia Morning, we learn about a faith-based community effort in Charleston that is working to provide help to West Virginians who suffer from chronic health issues. Also, we have a story that explores how lawmakers around the Ohio Valley region are hoping to cap the insurance copay of insulin to try and rein in prices.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsOn this West Virginia Morning, we share our final story in our series “Plugging the Brain Drain.” We talk with three young chefs about the opportunities they see in West Virginia and elsewhere. Also, in this show, we visit an art exhibit in Beckley called “Social Studies” that is displaying visual art that relates to local, national and even global social standards.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsOn this West Virginia Morning, we have a conversation with the 2021 West Virginia State Champion in the Poetry Out Loud national recitation competition. Notre Dame High School Senior Ben Long from Clarksburg is one of nine national finalists. Also, we take a look at vaccine rates, and we learn about a litter waste pickup program in Berkeley County.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsOn this West Virginia Morning, many family traditions are passed down from generation to generation throughout the Appalachian region, but there is a unique story of a particular tomato plant cultivated in West Virginia. Also, we have a story about Gayle Manchin who is the first West Virginian to serve as federal co-chair of the Appalachian Regional Commission.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsMany oil and gas workers come into contact with a fracking byproduct called brine. The gas industry says it’s safe. But is it really? This week on Inside Appalachia, we’ll talk with reporter Justin Nobel, who says some workers are being exposed to dangerous levels of radioactivity, which could be making them, and their families, sick. And, as we head into garden season, we’ll check in with an update on a mystery about mortgage-lifter tomatoes.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsOn this West Virginia Morning, poetry often tells stories of truths about our lives and personal struggles, and poets in Appalachia are no stranger to those stories. We speak with Kentucky’s new poet laureate Crystal Wilkinson, who is the first Black woman to have this title in Kentucky.
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