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This week, too often, people with mental health challenges or substance use disorder wind up in jail. But crisis response teams offer another way. Also, changes to the Endangered Species Act could benefit big business. They could also kill animals like the eastern hellbender. And, in troubled times, a West Virginia writer says to find peace in nature.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsBeverly Wendland previously served as provost at Washington University in St. Louis, and was the Dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University before that.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsCutting consumer utility bills and changing core high school graduation requirements were two of the many issues discussed at the annual press lookahead for West Virginia’s 2026 legislative session.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsWest Virginia’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 4.4% for the month of November 2025.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsWritten by a former slave ship captain, “Amazing Grace” has traveled far beyond its origins. In this encore episode, Us & Them traces how the hymn has become a powerful folk song and civil rights anthem — speaking to pain, forgiveness and the possibility of change.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsAppalachia has had high rates of substance abuse and mental health disorders for years. After the problem reached a boiling point during the COVID-19 pandemic, a few communities tried using crisis response teams, and so far, that seems to be working. Last year, Inside Appalachia’s Mason Adams spent several months with some of these teams and has this story.
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