In a tweet that preceded West Virginia’s buck firearm season, West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice encouraged West Virginians to purchase a hunting license. In the tweet, he offered an economic rationale — that hunting is an economic engine for the state. State offices have thrown around the figure more than […]
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Are cases of black lung disease, a scourge of the coal-mining industry, more numerous today than in recent memory? That’s the message of a joint press release by U.S. Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va. Black lung disease, also called coal workers’ pneumoconiosis, is caused by dusts […]
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Nicholas Chaffins saw a need for change. On March 14, Chaffins, then a junior at Morgantown High School in Morgantown, West Virginia, joined his peers to walk out of their classrooms to protest gun violence. “If you talk to pretty much any student, we’re pretty fed up with it and […]
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It was April and snowing when Aura Broida Fontánez came to West Virginia, and there were no leaves on the trees. It reminded her of the trees in Puerto Rico, when the leaves were swept away by Hurricane Maria. Months after the hurricane, Broida arrived as an intern at Harmony […]
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