The WVPB team and its many great friends are reading the book "Evelyn Del Rey Is Moving Away" by Meg Medina to children across the Mountain State as part of Jumpstart’s international initiative Read for the Record.
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Candidates for the West Virginia office of attorney general participated in a debate arranged and hosted by MetroNews on Wednesday.
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This week’s episode of Inside Appalachia is about fierce women — something we have no shortage of here in Appalachia.We’ll hear about the folk music collaboration between Wu Fei and Abigail Washburn. Their new album combines the tones of Appalachia with the melodies of China. We’ll also hear a story about the first transgender person elected to political office in West Virginia, and a 90-year-old newspaper publisher who is still hard at work each week.
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The show will be recorded without an audience on November 8, with guest host Kathy Mattea, featured performers will be Ranky Tanky, Rene Marie, Susan Werner and The Sea The Sea.
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A new entrepreneur center is launching in West Virginia to support women and people of color, a demographic hard hit by the coronavirus, who are interested in starting a small business.
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Eclectopia host Jim Lange shares three ghostly tales recorded by his fellow West Virginians.
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Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin painkillers, recently pleaded guilty to criminal charges and has reached a $8.3 billion settlement for its role in the opioid crisis.WVU Law Professor Patrick McGinley was part of a team that helped unseal documents that revealed 100 billion prescription opioid pills flooded the U.S. from 2006-2014.
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The president of the West Virginia Troopers Association, John W. Smith Jr., says he did not know that a candidate his organization decided to endorse this year has an active restraining order against him.
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An annual festival for West Virginia "Rocket Boys" is being held online this year, due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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