This week's broadcast was recorded on campus of Ohio University with the help of our affiliate WOUB Public Media. We'll hear performances from Rissi Palmer, Cheryl Wheeler, Joslyn & the Sweet Compression, Maia Sharp, and Kenny White. Join us starting Friday March 3 on our NPR Music affiliates.
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On this West Virginia Morning, we share our fourth story in News Director Eric Douglas’ series "Getting Into Their Reality: Caring For Aging Parents." He talks with Vicky Foster, the CEO of Kanawha Valley Senior Services.
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America’s housing shortage has some people worried about where they’ll call home. For this Us & Them episode, we look at the housing struggle in urban West Philadelphia and rural West Virginia. Affordable housing is tough for some Americans now that pandemic relief programs are gone and eviction and foreclosure moratoriums have expired.
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On this episode of The Legislature Today, the Senate passed a bill that would allow the concealed carry of handguns on the state’s university campuses. Reporter Chris Schulz has more.
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Naloxone clinics are coming to the Eastern Panhandle to help educate locals on what to do in case of an opioid overdose.
Mountain Stage
Listen this week for an encore show featuring performances by Peter Mulvey, SistaStrings, Kyshona, Jill Sobule, and Smith & Sollee.
- Listen: Kieran Kane & Rayna Gellert Have Our Mountain Stage Song of the Week: 'Bailout Blues'
- Wilco's Spring Tour Brings Them To Mountain Stage In Athens, Ohio
- Listen: The Steel Wheels Have The Mountain Stage Song Of The Week, 'Under'
- Listen: West Virginia Indie-Rocker William Matheny Has Our Mountain Stage Song of the Week From 2021
Inside Appalachia
This week on Inside Appalachia, we go back to school with West Virginia women who are training to fill the shortage of construction jobs. And, EMTs and first responders take care of Appalachian communities, but who’s watching out for them? We’ll also talk with country music star Morgan Wade about what it’s like to play in Nashville one week and then return to your hometown stage the next.
More Stories
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On this episode of The Legislature Today, reporter Chris Schulz talks with Del. Charlie Reynolds, R-Marshall, and Fred Albert, the president of the American Federation of Teachers — West Virginia, to get their perspectives on the latest concerns surrounding PEIA — the health care benefit for state employees and teachers.
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In 2022, state tourism revenue set an all-time record with $5 billion in traveler spending. “Almost Heaven” was on full display as Tourism Day filled the State Capitol rotunda halls on Monday.
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The House of Delegates Education Committee passed a bill Monday that would formally announce a bus operator shortage statewide.
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The City of Huntington is recognizing 150 Black people of note through a street banner program as part of Black History Month.
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Senate Bill 59 makes several changes to the system of unemployment benefits in the state.
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A bill passed in the Senate Monday morning, requiring all West Virginia hospitals with emergency departments have a trained Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) available to treat victims 24 hours a day.
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