Roxy Todd
22 posts
Pandemic-Fueled Homebuying Puts New Pressure On Appalachia’s Real Estate Market
Last summer, 34-year-old Bijoulea Finney and her husband Drew packed up everything they owned in Austin, Texas, and…
March 17, 2021
Is W.Va.’s Foster Care System Failing Children? A Look Inside An Agency Wrestling With Long-Term Reforms
About 400,000 children across the U.S. are growing up inside the foster care system, overseen by government employees…
December 28, 2020
‘Birds Can Teach Us’: A 20-Year-Old Falconer On What It Takes To Hunt With Raptors
On his family’s farm in Randolph County, West Virginia, 20-year-old Collin Waybright has a hobby that’s very different…
August 21, 2020
Pediatric Experts Say Much is Unknown About COVID and Children
While the president has asserted that children are “almost immune” from COVID-19, public health experts say many things…
August 14, 2020
Despite Increasing Demand, Some W.Va. Apple Farmers Struggle
When you think of some of West Virginia’s biggest economic drivers, extractive industries like coal or natural gas…
February 19, 2020
Could Appalachian Communities Survive On Their Own?
Resourceful. Self-reliant. These are some of the values many people who live in the mountains pride themselves on.…
January 21, 2020