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Facing Another Pandemic Summer, WV Schools Are Better Prepared To Feed Kids. Yet, Gaps Will Likely Persist

This summer, though the pandemic continues, a statewide summer feeding plan and reduced COVID-19 restrictions could help close student feeding gaps in West Virginia.

Gayle Manchin: 'The Stars Have Just Lined Up' for West Virginia, Appalachia

Gayle Manchin is the first West Virginian to serve as federal co-chair of the Appalachian Regional Commission in its 56-year history. Her husband, Sen. Joe Manchin, is a key vote for President Joe Biden in an evenly divided Senate. Biden can’t advance his priorities without the centrist Democrat’s support.

'Bridge Builders' book: How media can restore trust in 'polarized age'

USA TODAY ,  published with permission from Polity. They’re hillbillies.  They’re religious wackos. They’re conservative wingnuts. The harsh stereotypes of the people of Appalachia are deeply entrenched in the American consciousness. During the 2016 presidential campaign, those ugly caricatures flooded the airwaves, newspapers, websites, and social media accounts of powerful news outlets responsible for accurately depicting the people of a sprawling region that ranges from portions of southwest New York state southward through Pennsylvania, Kentucky, West Virginia, Tennessee, and into parts of Georgia and Alabama. “Welcome to Trump County, USA,” Vanity Fair blared in a headline on a story reported from Monongalia County, West Virginia. The writer led the story with a lurid anecdote: “It is a little after midnight on a Friday in late January. I am in a strip club in Morgantown, West Virginia, drinking (expletive) American beer that tastes like ice and newspaper. A

COVID UK Variants keep growing in West Virginia

Photo by W.Va. Governor s Office COVID UK Variants keep growing in West Virginia By Charles Boothe | Bluefield Daily Telegraph May 4, 2021 6 hrs ago Gov. Jim Justice said Monday the COVID UK Variants are spreading throughout West Virginia. Photo by W.Va. Governor s Office CHARLESTON — The UK variant of COVID-19 is spreading more rapidly in the state. Dr. Clay Marsh, the state COVID-19 Czar, said Monday during Gov. Jim Justice’s pandemic briefing, that just during the last several days positive UK variant cases in the state have risen from 468 to 930. “We are now experiencing a more rapid growth of the UK variant,” he said, adding that the vaccines are “remarkably effective” to protect against the variants. “With the variants growing …(here and around the world) this (vaccines) is the way we slow down and stop the variants.”

Record-breaking fatal overdoses reported in W.Va. in 2020 after years of decreases