Swiss Heritage, Gamer AI Merge In Helvetia For Fasnacht 2025
The Fasnacht 2025 celebration in the Swiss town of Helvetia included traditional revelry and a new Fallout 76 gaming twist.
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W.Va. School Board Association Head Talks Legislation Aimed At Schools, Students
On this episode of The Legislature Today, News Director Eric Douglas talks with Jim Brown, the executive director of the West Virginia School Board Association. The group represents the school boards in all 55 counties in West Virginia. They discuss pending legislation that will affect school systems and students.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsRiley Gaines Signed Into Law A Bill That Defines Men and Women
West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey held the first ceremonial bill signing event as a governor today where he signed “The Riley Gaines Act.” On Tuesday ...
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsSenate Moves Bill To Add Judge’s Political Affiliation To Ballots
Lawmakers debated requiring judicial candidates in West Virginia to provide their political affiliations on ballots. The legislature removed party affiliation from those same ballots in 2015.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsBill To Standardize Court Mental Health Evaluations Passes House
State lawmakers have moved to standardize the state’s process for deciding whether to place residents in mental health institutions by creating a new role to oversee the process.
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Us & Them: We The People [But Not So Much] Women
Many assume the U.S. Constitution guarantees equal rights for all, but its authors didn’t seem to envision women as part of "We the people." On the next episode of Us & Them, host Trey Kay speaks with law professor Jill Hasday, whose new book We the Men argues that women are systematically forgotten in America’s founding stories—and that exclusion has powerful symbolic and emotional consequences.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsStakeholders Weigh In On Foster Care Issues
On this episode of The Legislature Today, Assistant News Director Maria Young turned to the issue of legislation related to foster care and adoption as multiple bills wind their way through the two chambers. She spoke with Jaycie Bias, executive director with the West Virginia Foster, Adoptive & Kinship Parents Network, and Rachel Kinder with Mission West Virginia, a non-profit that advocates and focuses on those same areas.
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