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Politically-Connected W.Va. GameChanger Program Receives Opioid Funds Amid Doubts from Experts
Michelle Allen is in her office in an empty Robert C. Byrd High School. Allen is the career and technical instructor at RCB ...
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W.Va. Counties Set the Rules for Opioid Funds — with No One Watching
For two hours every Thursday and Friday, Randall Brown gathers a handful of people in front of a whiteboard. They sit on a ...
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The Price of Recovery
As millions in opioid settlement funds reach West Virginia, counties are making high-stakes choices about how to spend it — ...
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W.Va. Opioid Settlement Funds are Supposed to Reverse Years of Crisis. In Several Counties, They’re Being Used to Pay Regional Jail Bills.
Wyoming is one of at least 9 counties in West Virginia that have used their opioid settlement funds to pay off at least a portion of their regional jail bill, an analysis of FOIA documents by students ...
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‘Not in the Political Appetite’: Despite Decades of Research, W.Va ...
On a warm summer day in late May, about 100 people are waiting for their turn to go inside the Neighborhood S.H.O.P., located in the annex of Bream Memorial Presbyterian Church on the West Side of ...
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In West Virginia’s Southern Coalfields, a Grassroots ‘Jubilee’
On a late spring day in 2022, Rev. Brad Davis was riding along the twisting roads of McDowell County, West Virginia. Davis was soon to start his current job pastoring five United Methodist churches ...
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The Green Smelter: Century Aluminum Promises Kentucky’s Next Big Economic Boost, But with Some Risk
In the 1980s, in the United States, coal and aluminum production were each thriving industries. The production of primary aluminum depended, at that time, on plentiful, inexpensive coal – and the rich ...
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Documenting the Appalachian Intifada: A Review of ‘So Much to be Angry About’
Too often, however, the militant traditions of socialism in Appalachia have been treated as a quaint anachronism, peculiar to a bygone era before the New Deal. Nevertheless, the oppression and ...
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Pain and Possibility: Reckoning with Historic Inequity on the West Side
Karen Williams, lifelong resident of Charleston’s West Side, poses for a portrait outside of Phat Daddy’s barbecue restaurant on Friday, April 14, 2023. Williams, a retired educator of 40 years, ...