On this West Virginia Morning, the federal government has begun firing federal workers at National Parks across the country. WKU Public Radio reporter Derek Parham reports Mammoth Cave National Park in neighboring southern Kentucky is just one of the sites already feeling the effects of those sweeping measures. This story was produced as part of the Appalachia Mid-South Newsroom. A collaboration between NPR and several public radio stations in West Virginia, Tennessee and Kentucky.
And for The Legislature Today, health reporter Emily Rice sat down with West Virginia’s new Secretary of the Department of Human Services, Alex Mayer, to discuss the future of child welfare in a state with more than 6,000 kids in its custody.
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