Mountain State Spotlight: West Virginia News and Reporting
网页6 天之前 · Mountain State Spotlight is a nonprofit investigative newsroom that exists to give West Virginians the information they need to make our state a better place. As a nonprofit, we rely on your help to power our journalism. We are committed to lifting up voices that aren’t always heard and spotlighting solutions that are making a difference.
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网页2 天之前 · by Sarah Elbeshbishi, Tyler Dedrick and Allen Siegler September 20th, 2024. Southern Wayne and northern Mingo have been hit hard by the decline of coal. For the people left, it’s a struggle to move forward. by Henry Culvyhouse September 20th, 2024. The natural gas boom was supposed to bring prosperity to West Virginians in poverty.
Special session: WV lawmakers approve 2% cut, little for child care
网页7 小时之前 · In a special session weeks before the election, lawmakers approve a tiny tax cut and dole out millions for local projects. But West Virginians struggling for child care got little in the way of help. by Henry Culvyhouse October 9th, 2024October 9th, 2024. House Speaker Roger Hanshaw, R-Clay, slams the gavel at the end of the special session.
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网页Read our reporting. Since our launch in 2020, we’ve published hundreds of stories, including: . an investigation into how Kanawha County’s “chemical valley,” one of the state’s few largely Black communities, became one of the most-polluted in the state; ; coverage of how southern West Virginia communities haven’t gotten the returns they’ve been promised from the Hatfield-McCoy ...
About Mountain State Spotlight
网页About Mountain State Spotlight. Our mission is to help West Virginians improve our state by producing “sustained outrage” journalism that exposes abuses of power by government, business and other institutions. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, West Virginia was at a crossroads. West Virginia is struggling through an historic economic ...
2022 Capitol Tracker — Mountain State Spotlight
网页2022 Capitol Tracker — Mountain State Spotlight. Track bills through the lengthy legislative process, contact elected officials, and follow live updates from our reporters.
Mountain State Spotlight’s best of 2021
网页2021年12月27日 · “This is the first piece of commentary I’ve ever written in my 30-plus years as a journalist. Since my Mountain State Spotlight colleague, Lucas Manfield, was writing a daily story about the disparaging emails, I felt compelled to provide some context about this giant drug distributor, AmerisourceBergen, given that I had spent the past eight years covering the company and wrote a book, in ...
Mountain State Spotlight News
网页2024年8月22日 · Mountain State Spotlight has hired Mary Kay McFarland as managing editor to guide our reporting staff as we tell stories of intense local importance and broad statewide relevance.
Mountain State Spotlight adds WV native as Executive Director
网页2021年11月9日 · West Virginia native Ellen Allen — a fixture in the state’s nonprofit world, with more than three decades of management and leadership experience — is joining Mountain State Spotlight to head up the civic news organization’s business operations. Allen will start her new role as the civic news organization’s executive director, on Feb. 6.
Economy Archives - Mountain State Spotlight
网页2024年10月3日 · by Erin Beck August 2nd, 2024August 5th, 2024. MYRTLE – On a cloudy Saturday in April 2016, a crowd gathered on a former Mingo County mountaintop. Hundreds of car enthusiasts and residents joined to celebrate completion of a new drag strip on a ridge flattened off by coal mining. Local politicians showed up too, eager to promote a rare and ...