Among this week’s stories: Teaching hunting safety in schools, a multi-state transmission line moves forward in West Virginia; Clinton, Obama waffle on coal-fired power plants, and a conversation with Dave Lavender, author of Dave Trippin’.
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Among this week’s stories: Truckers go on “Hillbilly Express” to protest fuel prices, the debate over federally-designated Wilderness Areas, and the concerns over tanning beds in Kentucky.
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Among this week’s stories: Kentucky lawmakers take steps to make sure disastrous coal slurry spills don’t happen again, a look at the Clinton and Obama campaigns in West Virginia, and a preview of an Appalachian studies conference.
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Among this week’s segments: Surgeon General Steven Galson discusses national effort to curb childhood obesity, the West Virginia Supreme Court rehears a controversial case in the aftermath of pictures that show a justice in the French Riviera with Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship, and Antietam Battlefield gets “endangered” label. Plus, presidential politics and Appalachia.
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Among this week’s stories: The role of superdelegates in the presidential race, the search for Sasquatch in West Virginia, Blair Mountain nominated to the National Register of Historic Places, and casino gambling legislation gets back on track in Kentucky. Plus, an update on the Tennessee-Georgia border/water dispute.
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Among this week’s stories: Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear proposes 12 casinos, a look at the controversy surrounding the West Virginia Supreme Court, former drug czar Barry McCaffrey faces tough questions about methadone clinics, and neo-natal intensive care units are strapped for space because of increases in low birth weights and babies addicted to drugs.
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Among this week’s stories: The Carolina Chocolate Drops, an African-American string band that plays old-timey music; BB&T Bank gives millions to colleges that teach economic philosophy of Ayn Rand, and a history of the Wheeling Jamboree.
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The West Virginia Supreme Court votes to rehear a case involving Massey Energy after photos emerge that show the chief justice in the French Riveria with the CEO of the coal company. Also, the return of the Wheeling Jamboree, and casino gambling legislation in Kentucky.
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A study of Appalachian dialects, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer George Crumb, renowned Ohio artist David Hostetler and a debate over whether police cruisers should be staffed by two officers are among the stories and issues addressed on this week’s program.
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By Anna Sale
At 69, Bill Withers proudly points out that he’s the youngest member of the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame. Withers was born in Slab Fork in Raleigh County, the youngest of six children. His father, a coal miner, died when Withers was 12. He was raised by his mother and grandmother, and then [...]
This week’s program includes segments on coal and energy, as governors and representatives from energy-producing states participated in an energy summit in West Virginia; the battle against meth in Kentucky, and a cancer drug that’s generating optimism in the fight again Alzheimer’s disease.
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On this week’s program, Google Earth and mountaintop-removal mining, a museum dedicated to miners, and a man with AIDS tells his story.
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This week’s program features a look at the Appalachian church tradition of line singing, a stop on The Crooked Road: Virginia’s Music Heritage Trail, and inductees to the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame.
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By Beth Vorhees
bvorhees@wvpubcast.org
Sidney Saylor Farr is an award winning Appalachian author from Berea, Kentucky. Her memoir My Appalachia has just been published by the University Press of Kentucky.
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This week’s program includes segments on the development of coal methane in Pennsylvania, elections in Kentucky, ATV deaths in West Virginia and Sidney Saylor Farr’s My Appalachia.
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This week’s program includes an segments on more efforts to get hate crime charges filed against defendants charged in the rape and kidnapping of Megan Willliams, Hispanic immigration in Kentucky and an interview Anne Pope, the federal co-chair of the Appalachian Regional Commission.
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Inside Appalachia is our weekly regional newsmagazine. This week’s program includes segments on efforts to ban two books by Pat Conroy from a West Virginia school system’s curriculum, controversy over wind farms in Pennsylvania and a discussion on the history and meaning of the Confederate flag.
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Inside Appalachia is our weekly one-hour newsmagazine that focuses on news, issues and people in the region. Beth Vorhees is the host.
Sept. 8, 2007, Rundown
By Beth Vorhees
bvorhees@wvpubcast.org
At-risk kids in Big Stone, Va., are served by the Lonesome Pine Office on Youth. Committed to the prevention of delinquency, the program keeps kids busy by working on history books about the area around Wise County, Virginia. That’s how the organization came to produce and publish a new collection of music about [...]
By Scott Finn
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The first 10 people to be inducted into the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame were announced in Charleston yesterday. And it was a real musical smorgasbord, including an avant-garde classical composer, the man who wrote the hit “Lean on Me,” and a country star who’s been dubbed the “King of the [...]
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