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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Ted Boettner with the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy discusses the group’s latest report detailing Governor Tomblin’s 2017 budget proposal.
Boettner explains previous tax cuts alongside the declining severance tax collections have hurt the state budget for years in a row. He also focuses in on the importance of funding higher education.
Senate committees take on two major bills Tuesday- one to increase the state’s tobacco tax, the other to remove the requirement to get a permit to carry a concealed weapon.
Both committees began discussing amendments to the bills, but will continue considering them Wednesday in meetings.
A special report from the state’s prison system shows how a program to train service dogs for veterans or children with disabilities is also helping the inmates working with the dogs.
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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.