Live On The Levee Lineup Announced
Charleston’s annual free concert series, Live on the Levee, will begin on May 24 and run through August 10.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsOn this episode of The Legislature Today, we have our weekly reporter roundtable. Randy Yohe is joined by WVPB reporter Briana Heaney and Ogden Newspapers’ State Government Reporter Steven Allen Adams to recap the week’s action.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsThis week on Inside Appalachia, black lung disease is back. In fact, it never went away. Now, younger and younger miners are living with a particularly nasty form of black lung disease. Regulators and the coal industry have known about the problem for decades — but they’ve been slow to respond. One reporter asks, “What would happen if thousands of workers in any other industry got sick and died just because of where they worked?”
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsThis week on Inside Appalachia, we meet a craftsman who builds exquisite, handmade fly rods and shares his love of fishing with others. We also talk about Appalachia’s nurse shortage, and we hear stories about Appalachian baseball.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsSarah Dorsey knows the importance of making a connection. “I was diagnosed at the age of 10 with cardiomyopathy,” she said. “I’ve had to go through open heart surgeries. I have a pacemaker and a defibrillator so I’ve really been dealing with a disability from a young age.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsAppalachian lore often includes medicines made from plants and herbs to cure ailments. A new book by Rebecca Linger and Dennis K. Flaherty examines the components of some of those traditional herbs to see just what effect they have and determine how best to use them.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsSeventeen health science graduate students from across West Virginia are getting money to help pay for their education.Why? Because the West Virginia…
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