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On this West Virginia Week, the world’s largest transportable Ferris wheel arrives in Charleston, the SNAP ban on soda is blocked, and we look at an effort to expand local medical care through EMS.
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In the third full week of this legislative session both chambers are poised to vote on bills that could see vetoes from Governor Tomblin–one to make West Virginia a Right-to-Work state, the other, to repeal the state’s prevailing wage.
The chairs of the House and Senate Government Organization Committees discuss the proposed repeal as well as a possible change to the state’s Home Rule Pilot Program.
Members of the House of Delegates continue their clash over a bill necessary to fund the current budget year. The bill calls for a $52 million withdrawal of money from the state’s Rainy Day Fund.
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On this West Virginia Week, the world’s largest transportable Ferris wheel arrives in Charleston, the SNAP ban on soda is blocked, and we look at an effort to expand local medical care through EMS.
This week, some folks are working to preserve the memory of Bristol, Virginia’s Black Bottom, a largely African American community wiped out by urban renewal. Also, small food producers embrace digital technology for the humble farm stand. And, kudzu; it’s coming for us.
Urban renewal in the last century was supposed to revitalize struggling cities, but it often sacrificed Black neighborhoods and business districts, like Black Bottom in Bristol, Virginia. Inside Appalachia’s Mason Adams spoke with organizer Tina McDaniel about “The Souls of Bristol’s Black Bottom,” a project in Bristol that remembers the community through interpretive signs, public art and digital storytelling. McDaniel says learning about Black Bottom was a revelation.
On this West Virginia Morning, federal cuts and changes to state law focused on Medicaid programs could undermine West Virginia’s drug addiction and treatment system for 50,000 residents.