When I met Jocelyn, a Parkersburg, West Virginia woman in her early 20s, she was coming off her fourth job interview at the third fast food restaurant in two weeks. Sheād made it to the second round with the manager, whoād just told her he wanted to know āhow it looked on paper.ā On paper, she looked great; her resumeā¦
Hereās a bajillionth story about thousands of underpaid people, mostly women, throwing all of their time and energy into convincing a small group of powerful people, mostly men, to make life a little less shitty.
The school district of Mercer County, West Virginiaāpopulation 61,984āhas been thrust into the national spotlight now that a lawsuit, filed by the Freedom From Religion Foundation, challenges the constitutional legality of the countyās voluntary weekly Bible study class for elementary and middle public schoolers.
West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice did not like the new budget Republican-led legislature placed on his desk. So much so that Justice unveiled a pile of literal bull shit (or so it appears to be, I canāt smell it, thank god) to make his point as he vetoed the bill at the state capitol on Thursday.
In November, a West Virginia government employee was fired after she composed an egregiously racist Facebook post referring to Michelle Obama as an āape in heels.ā However, on December 23 she will be reinstated. Forgive and forget, I always say!
Mayor Beverly Whaling of Clay, West Virginia has resigned following the fallout from her response to a very racist and horrible Facebook post referring to First Lady Michelle Obama as an āape in heels.ā
We have never deserved Michelle Obama: itās a truth made more certain with each passing day. And weāve been reminded anew by two grotesquely racist officials in West Virginia who recently referred to her as an āape in heels.ā
Welcome to the first and only entry in our limited series āMemba When, in which we blog about the intersection of cute dog stories and car stories that Jalopnik wrote about days prior.
Unable to deny a lesbian couple a marriage license, a West Virginia deputy county clerk settled for telling the women that their relationship was wrong and would be judged by God. The women also say the clerk called them āan abomination.ā The clerk denies that part, but merrily told a local reporter that yes, God toldā¦
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 allā¦
Dear God, it's like they're actively trying to get us to insult them: yet another Republican politician has argued against allowing rape survivors to get abortions, because while rape is "obviously awful," the children it can potentially produce are beautiful. Yep. Nothing lovelier than a forced pregnancy.
America's youngest state legislator is now 18-year-old West Virginian Saira Blair. She's NRA-endorsed, fiscally conservative and, of course, pro-life. Her dad is a state senator.
Saira Blair, a West Virginia resident who will graduate high school later this month, just defeated a sitting state delegate in her district's primary election. This is a very notable accomplishment for any teen, but it is especially notable for a second-semester senior (a subset of the student population whose dailyā¦
West Virginia (unfairly most of the time) seems to be the go-to backwoods state in America. Incest, murderous hillbillies, haunted coal-mining towns straddling the cave mouth to Hell, illiteracy, and prescription drug abuse are often mentioned in connection with West Virginia, as if the Appalachian squiggle-blobā¦
Katelyn Campbell, the high school student who notified the media about Pam Stenzel's insane abstinence-only presentation last week, is apparently being threatened by her principal. She says that George Aulenbacher, the principal at George Washington High School in West Virginia, said he'd call Wellesley College āā¦
Meet Caiden Cowger: He's a 14-year-old radio host who lives in West Virginia and is a rising star in the conservative movement. More importantly, he's apparently very eager for us to know that President Obama is the one to blame for everyone being gay. Interesting theory, young chap! With the kind of cocky confidenceā¦
Melissa Lee Williams of West Virginia is facing assault and weapons charges after she showed up at her estranged husband's door with a knife and demanded of him and another man: "Eat my pussy."
At a rally in West Virginia yesterday, an elderly woman collapsed; before officials had even picked her up off the ground, Clinton declared, "She'll be fine!" Which, thankfully, she wasāno doubt because of Bubba's joke-slinging charms.
Julia Bonds, who says, "I'm not a latte sipper, I'm a hillbilly, man," is working within coal communities to stop strip mining and develop economic alternatives to the coal industry. More fascinating details, here: [Newsweek]
With voter registration at an all-time high, turnout expected to be close to an all-time high and more than a few absent absentee ballots worrying their supposed owners, many people are concerned that that other one might yet be able to squeak out a win ā due in no small part to widespread suppression efforts, voterā¦
