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When I read the news reports that Derrick Evans, a newly elected member of the West Virginia legislature, livestreame…
Jun 29
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I haven’t been to my gym since the end of February—it didn’t shut down until mid-March, but earlier in the month, I…
Nov 18 2019
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The Women’s Health Center in Charleston, West Virginia is an unassuming, single-story beige brick building in a…
Sep 3 2019
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Cry time after a long weekend. Will we flood the streets with our tears?
May 12 2019
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Two years after dozens of West Virginians left their jobs to take classes from Mined Minds, a nonprofit that…
Dec 19 2018
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A West Virginia school official has been temporarily suspended after allegedly cornering a transgender student in…
May 11 2018
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When I met Jocelyn, a Parkersburg, West Virginia woman in her early 20s, she was coming off her fourth job interview…
Mar 3 2018
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Here’s a bajillionth story about thousands of underpaid people, mostly women, throwing all of their time and energy…
Apr 24 2017
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The school district of Mercer County, West Virginia—population 61,984—has been thrust into the national spotlight…
Dec 12 2016
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In November, a West Virginia government employee was fired after she composed an egregiously racist Facebook post…
Nov 15 2016
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Mayor Beverly Whaling of Clay, West Virginia has resigned following the fallout from her response to a very racist…
Nov 14 2016
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We have never deserved Michelle Obama: it’s a truth made more certain with each passing day. And we’ve been reminded…
Aug 2 2016
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Welcome to the first and only entry in our limited series ‘Memba When, in which we blog about the intersection of…
Feb 11 2016
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Unable to deny a lesbian couple a marriage license, a West Virginia deputy county clerk settled for telling the…
Feb 9 2015
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West Virginia politician Brian Kurcaba has apologized for his remarks last week arguing that while rape is "obviously awful," having children from rape can be "beautiful." Kurcaba issued a statement saying he's sorry "to anyone who took my comments about the sanctity of human life to mean anything other than that all… Read more
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Feb 6 2015
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Dear God, it's like they're actively trying to get us to insult them: yet another Republican politician has argued…
Nov 5 2014
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America's youngest state legislator is now 18-year-old West Virginian Saira Blair. She's NRA-endorsed, fiscally…
May 14 2014
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Saira Blair, a West Virginia resident who will graduate high school later this month, just defeated a sitting state…
Sep 14 2013
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West Virginia (unfairly most of the time) seems to be the go-to backwoods state in America. Incest, murderous…