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Fairmont joins 17 other cities statewide to have passed a Fairness Law. The vote on Monday was 7-2.
Monongah, also in Marion County, enacted its ordinance in September. Bolivar, in Jefferson County, enacted one in April. Keyser and South Charleston enacted theirs last year.
The laws protect LGBTQ people from discrimination in housing, employment and public accommodations.
West Virginia has no statewide anti-discrimination law for its LGBTQ residents.
The Human Rights Campaign, a national LGBTQ rights organization, scores seven of the state’s cities on its equality index.
Fairmont is not one of them, but nondiscrimination laws carry the most weight of the factors it considers.
Huntington and Morgantown scored a perfect 100. By contrast, Parkersburg, which does not have a Fairness Law, scored 13.
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Secretary of State Kris Warner has announced that 66,855 ballots have been cast across the state in absentee voting and the first four days of early voting.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsSilas House is a prolific writer who is a vital voice in Appalachia. House’s new book is "The Tulip Poplars." It’s a sweeping novel that chronicles the lives of four people as they navigate friendship and forbidden love in 20th century Kentucky. Inside Appalachia Host Mason Adams recently spoke with House.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsNearly $1.4 million in funds from the state's Rural Health Transformation Program will be used to help replace a mobile cancer screening unit that serves rural communities.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsOn this West Virginia Week, our voter's guide is out, and it has all the information you need to know about the upcoming general election in the state. Also, another lawsuit targets the state's public school funding formula. And, a million dollar giant troll is making its way to the woods of West Virginia.
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