Gov. Jim Justice and Babydog are slated to campaign for former President Donald Trump in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania on Thursday.
Gov. Jim Justice and Babydog are slated to campaign for former President Donald Trump in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania on Thursday. Justice announced the event in a Tuesday press release.
At his Wednesday press briefing, Justice said this event is one in a series of Trump campaign events he is scheduled to attend in swing states, with two in North Carolina and three Pennsylvania, to “target some more of the rural counties.”
“I’m not going there in Pennsylvania to sit and talk about me, I mean, for crying out loud, and I’m not into running all over the place, campaigning for me, because the people of this great state, they know me,” Justice said. “We got a lot, a lot of great stuff that’s happening in West Virginia, and we need to tell the West Virginia story.”
Justice said he might schedule more Trump campaign events in Pennsylvania.
“I really believe the entire election hinges on Pennsylvania,” Justice said. “I want to try to help President Trump in any way I possibly can.”
Justice said Trump was not confirmed to attend the event himself, although the governor said that Trump may “surprise” attendees at some points in Justice’s road trip schedule.
The event will start at 6 p.m. at 52 East High Street, Waynesburg, Pennsylvania.
On this West Virginia Morning, from allergies to introducing solids, the first few years of a child’s life have a surprising number of decisions for parents to make. In our latest entry of “Now What? A Series on Parenting,” Chris Schulz talks with Isabela Negrin, an assistant professor of pediatrics at WVU Medicine, about the ins and outs of early childhood nutrition.
On this West Virginia Morning, from allergies to introducing solids, the first few years of a child’s life have a surprising number of decisions for parents to make. In our latest entry of “Now What? A Series on Parenting,” Chris Schulz talks with Isabela Negrin, an assistant professor of pediatrics at WVU Medicine, about the ins and outs of early childhood nutrition.
Also, in this show, it’s been a year since Pennsylvania’s largest coal-fired power plant shut down. Like hundreds of these plants around the country, the Homer City generating station in Indiana County faced stiff competition from natural gas and renewables. The Allegheny Front’s Reid Frazier went to Homer City to find out how the closure is affecting a community that relied on this plant for decades.
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On this West Virginia Morning, every summer, fireflies emerge for a few weeks — sending love signals in the dark. Those fireflies — including synchronous ones — are the stars of a festival at a farm in Forest County, Pennsylvania. As WPSU’s Anne Danahy reports, that farm draws both firefly fans — and researchers — looking to learn more about lightning bugs.
On this West Virginia Morning, every summer, fireflies emerge for a few weeks — sending love signals in the dark. Those fireflies — including synchronous ones — are the stars of a festival at a farm in Forest County, Pennsylvania. As WPSU’s Anne Danahy reports, that farm draws both firefly fans — and researchers — looking to learn more about lightning bugs.
Also, in this show, overcrowding and understaffing have pushed West Virginia’s prisons and jails to what many believe is a crisis point. It’s an issue we’ve delved into on WVPB’s Us & Them. But just last week, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit that sought to force the state to spend $330 million to improve prison and jail conditions in West Virginia.
More than 2,200 West Virginia residents traveled out of state to receive an abortion in 2023. Among them, 820 went to Maryland, 600 went to Pennsylvania and 590 went to Virginia.
At least 2,240 West Virginia residents traveled out of state to receive an abortion in 2023, primarily to neighboring states with less strict abortion laws.
Among them, 820 residents traveled to Maryland, 600 traveled to Pennsylvania, 590 traveled to Virginia and 230 traveled to Ohio, according to the Guttmacher Institute, an organization that researches reproductive and sexual health.
This coincides with a growing percentage of abortions provided to out-of-state residents in Maryland, Ohio and Virginia.
Two years ago today, the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, a 1973 ruling that protected abortion access nationally for decades. The decision allowed states to set their own policies on abortion.
In September 2022, Gov. Jim Justice signed a near-total abortion ban into law, prohibiting abortions outside of medical emergencies or instances when a fetus has no chance of survival.
The law makes some exceptions for some pregnancies conceived through rape or incest, but only until eight weeks of gestation for adults, and 14 weeks of gestation for minors.
New restrictions on abortion in West Virginia led some health care providers to bolster out-of-state reproductive health resources.
Located in Charleston, the Women’s Health Center of West Virginia — previously the state’s only abortion clinic — moved its abortion services from Charleston to Cumberland, Maryland, just two miles away from the state border.
Katie Quiñonez serves as executive director of the Women’s Health Center of Maryland, where the West Virginia facility’s abortion services were transferred.
“We did a market analysis and looked at what health care was available in those counties in mountain Maryland,” Quiñonez told the West Virginia Public Broadcasting podcast Us & Themearlier this year.
“We found that, not only was there not an abortion provider, [but] the nearest abortion providers for people living in mountain Maryland were at least 100 miles away,” she said. “We met directly with folks on the ground … in those communities to determine that, yes, there is a need here.”
The 2023 figures for out-of-state travel for abortion also omit residents who received reproductive health care remotely.
On this West Virginia Morning, a recent decision by the Biden administration to suspend permitting for new export terminals for liquefied natural gas (LNG) has drawn criticism from West Virginia lawmakers. To hear what impact the decision has on United States LNG exports, Curtis Tate spoke with Sam Reynolds and Ana Maria Jaller-Markarewicz of the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis.
On this West Virginia Morning, a recent decision by the Biden administration to suspend permitting for new export terminals for liquefied natural gas (LNG) has drawn criticism from West Virginia lawmakers. To hear what impact the decision has on United States LNG exports, Curtis Tate spoke with Sam Reynolds and Ana Maria Jaller-Markarewicz of the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis.
Also, in this show, the U.S. has seen a huge buildout in plants using fossil fuels to make plastics over the last decade. A new report finds those plants routinely break environmental laws, even though they receive major subsidies from taxpayers. The Allegheny Front’s Reid Frazier reports Shell’s ethane cracker in Beaver County, Pennsylvania was given over $1 billion in tax breaks yet violated its air pollution permit even before opening.
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