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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.
We have a conversation with Marshall University's Turning Point USA chapter president. We also learn about a recently released horror film shot near Huntington, and the population decline in central Appalachia that may be getting worse.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsThis week, the region is known for exporting coal, but it’s losing people, too. Also, folk singer Ginny Hawker grew up singing the hymns of the Primitive Baptist Church, but she didn’t think of performing until she got a little boost from Appalachian icon Hazel Dickens. And, the chef of an award-winning Asheville restaurant was shaped by memories of growing up in West Virginia.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsHigh winds Wednesday fanned more than 20 fires across the state, and the largest of those fires is still burning. Also, we speak with a journalist who has been covering population decline in central Appalachia.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsFounded by assassinated conservative activist Charlie Kirk, Turning Point USA focuses its energies largely on college campuses like Marshall University. Mason County freshman Branson Tolliver is Marshall’s chapter president. He talks with Randy Yohe on the goals of this growing student movement.
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