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This week, "Our Common Nature" is a new podcast from WNYC. It features cellist Yo-Yo Ma and producer Ana González, as they explore America and talk to folks like West Virginia coal miners. We follow Yo-Yo and his team as they venture into Appalachia. And we talk with González about meeting people where they are.
And tune in every Friday at 6 p.m. for The Legislature Today, West Virginia’s only television/radio simulcast devoted to covering the state’s 60-day regular legislative session.
In addition to our weekly television broadcast, WVPB journalists will deliver news from the session daily on the network’s radio news program West Virginia Morning, and on our website wvpublic.org.
Find all our coverage of the 2026 West Virginia Legislative session in one place on our hub page.
The Legislature This Week – New Podcast!
IntroducingThe Legislature This Week — our new companion podcast to our TV/radio simulcast The Legislature Today.
Not everyone has the time to listen to or watch regularly scheduled broadcasts, so the WVPB news team is bringing our state legislative coverage right to you.
Be sure to check out our new podcast, The Legislature This Week, made up of a collection of our legislative radio stories from throughout the week, including audio versions of stories produced for television on The Legislature Today.
Join Senior Reporter Chris Schulz as he brings together all our legislative news in one concise package. You’ll also hear from Assistant Director of Broadcast Journalism Maria Young, legislative reporter and 2026 host of The Legislature TodayRandy Yohe, and Director of Broadcast Journalism Eric Douglas.
New episodes of The Legislature This Week will drop Saturday mornings at 5 a.m. — just in time for your morning coffee.
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On this West Virginia Week, the state supreme court decides on vaccine requirements, the office of miners health and safety releases its findings about recent accidents and money talks on Planet Money.
The high court agreed to review the case last December after blocking a lower court order that stopped the creation of new charter schools without voter approval.
Federal judges ruled that West Virginia's vaccination requirement are legitimate because of its protection of the health and well-being of school children.
An Us & Them episode honored by the Virginias Associated Press Broadcasters for Best Podcast examines the hidden side of homeownership in Appalachia. While West Virginia has the nation’s highest homeownership rate, aging housing stock and low incomes leave many residents living in deteriorating conditions. Reporting from western Virginia, this episode explores what happens when owning a home doesn’t mean building wealth.