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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Two southern West Virginia Senators discuss the economic impact the decline in the state’s coal industry is having not just on the overall state budget, but the county level budgets as well which have led to cuts in programs and services as well as school layoffs.
Sen. Bill Laird of Fayette County and Sen. Ron Stollings of Boone County join us.
A Senate committee approves a bill to allow Constitutional carry in West Virginia, but not without making some of their own changes first, and members of the chamber also approve a measure to ban a second-trimester abortion method commonly used across the country, but rarely done in West Virginia.
The House Education Committee held a public hearing on a bill that would allow West Virginia University Institute of Technology to transfer its headquarters from Montgomery to Beckley, taking the entire institution with it.
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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.