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At the legislature today, protestors brave the snow and cold at the Capitol to rally against a bill that scales back the state’s prevailing wage. The head of law enforcement for the Division of Natural Resources tells a Senate committee the pay scale set in code for his officers is making it difficult to recruit qualified individuals. And a special report about the city of Huntington’s on going fight against drugs on The Legislature Today.
On this West Virginia Morning, a volunteer group makes sure all preschool kids get new picture books and learn a love of reading and a foodbank is struggling to meet a sharp increase in demand.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsTwelve people were charged with immigration violations along the West Virginia Turnpike in a two-day period this week. And a life saving effort that began in this state just went nationwide.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsThis week, for nearly a century, the Kentucky Mountain Laurel Festival has staged a formal dance. Organizers rely on a manual that’s been passed down for generations. Also, abortion is illegal in most cases in Tennessee. So what happens after a birth? A photographer followed one mother for a year. And, new prisons are touted as a way to bring jobs to former coal communities. Not everybody agrees the trade-off is worth it.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsIt’s time to reconsider what we know about America’s Revolutionary War. The history many of us learn presents a patriotic list of “greatest hits,” but the reality was a brutal civil war with global stakes. Ahead of Ken Burns’ PBS series, Us & Them hosts leading historians at Shepherd University to revisit 1776 with fresh eyes — and ask what it means as America nears its 250th.
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