This week, historian Mills Kelly’s love affair with the Appalachian Trail started when he was a boy scout. Also, the region is known for exporting coal, but it’s losing people, too. And, Cuz’s Uptown Barbeque in southwestern Virginia fuses Asian ideas with Appalachian comfort food.
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Lawmakers are working weekends and evenings now as we enter the seventh week of the 2019 West Virginia Legislative session. We’ll discuss a controversial Medicaid bill that originated in the House Finance Committee. It was reported to the floor at almost the last possible moment for consideration.
Senior Statehouse Reporter Dave Mistich joins host Suzanne Higgins to bring us the latest from the Capitol.
It’s also Social Media Monday, so we’re joined by Digital Reporter Shayla Klein in Morgantown.
HB 3136 – the Medicaid work requirement bill – is on the amendment stage in the House of Delegates.
Chantal Fields, Executive Director of West Virginians for Affordable Health Care, and Dr. Simon Haeder, a political science professor at the Rockefeller School of Policy and Politics at West Virginia University, join Suzanne Higgins to share their perspective on the bill.
HB 2452 create the West Virginia Cybersecurity Office. It passed the House of Delegates Monday, and it now moves to the Senate. Reporter Randy Yohe brings us this story.
On Tuesday, we’ll take a look at several criminal justice reforms bills and the support they have on both sides of the aisle.
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On this West Virginia Week, an opioid settlement reaches a milestone, gas prices shock Sen. Shelley Moore-Capito, R-W.Va., and we have more information on the recent chemical spill near Nitro.
This week, historian Mills Kelly’s love affair with the Appalachian Trail started when he was a boy scout. Also, the region is known for exporting coal, but it’s losing people, too. And, Cuz’s Uptown Barbeque in southwestern Virginia fuses Asian ideas with Appalachian comfort food.
Mills Kelly is a lifelong hiker and Appalachian Trail scholar. He shares the trail’s history and more on "The Green Tunnel Podcast." He’s also written several books, including his most recent, called "A Hiker’s History of the Appalachian Trail." Inside Appalachia’s Bill Lynch spoke with Kelly to learn more.
Two weeks ago, on April 16, John Lucas was run over by an ambulance from the Kanawha County Emergency Ambulance Authority at 2 a.m. in Elkview. And then he was dragged for nearly two miles. He died from his injuries. News Director Eric Douglas spoke with the family’s attorney, Scott Summers, and brings us this interview.