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Hanshaw Outlines Legislative Priorities And The Cultural Importance Of Hair Salons, This West Virginia Morning

On this West Virginia Morning, House Speaker Roger Hanshaw is eyeing education, PEIA and the foster care system this session, and Inside Appalachia explores the importance of Black hair salons.

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House Speaker Hanshaw Shares Goals For Education, PEIA And Foster Care

On this episode of The Legislature Today, News Director Eric Douglas speaks with House Speaker Roger Hanshaw, R-Clay. They discuss a number of issues including education, flooding in southern West Virginia and the crisis in foster care in the state.

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Morrisey’s Support For ICE, Grassroots Organizers Help Homeless And A Foster Care Investigation, This West Virginia Week

On this West Virginia Week, Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s new administration is falling in line with President Donald Trump’s immigration policies. We also learn about grassroots organizers keeping homeless people safe in the cold, and we have an interview with a Mountain State Spotlight reporter who broke an investigation this week about mismanaged foster care placement and inadequate mental health support for children in the state.

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Foster Care Investigation Reveals Children Not Receiving Care They Need

Nonprofit newsroom Mountain State Spotlight is publishing a three-part series on the state's foster care crisis. WVPB News director Eric Douglas sat down with their editor at large, Erica Peterson, to discuss what they found. 

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