Mountain State Spotlight: West Virginia News and Reporting
5 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.
Tackling ‘persistent poverty’ in West Virginia
2024年1月16日 · 11 of West Virginia’s 55 counties are classified as “in persistent poverty” by the U.S. Census Bureau, having a poverty rate of 20% or higher continually for the past three decades. Datasets used include 1990 and 2000 Decennial Censuses, 2005-2009 and 2015-2019 American Community Survey, 5-year estimates.
West Virginia settles jails lawsuit for $4 million
2023年11月9日 · West Virginia has agreed to pay $4 million to settle a class action lawsuit alleging inhuman conditions and improper treatment at Southern Regional Jail, lawyers told a federal judge during a hearing in Beckley on Thursday afternoon. “There’s still much work to be done,” Stephen New, a lawyer who brought the case against the state, said ...
About Mountain State Spotlight
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 ...
Mountaineer Rental Assistance: WV returns $86 million to feds
2022年9月22日 · West Virginia is returning $86 million meant to help renters and landlords to the federal government. by Ellie Heffernan September 22nd, 2022. Photo by Ashley Brown/Flickr. When West Virginia unveiled a new rental assistance program in March 2021 to prevent evictions and utility shutoffs, Gov. Jim Justice promised help was on the way.
Here’s how Certificate of Need laws fit into the conversation about ...
2021年3月5日 · History: in brief. If you haven’t heard of certificate of need laws, you’re not alone. Starting in the early 1960s, states used CON laws to try to curb health care spending by making medical providers prove that a need existed before they could open new facilities or expand services to a community.. The rationale was that if providers flooded a community with more services than that ...
West Virginia Legislature Archives - Mountain State Spotlight
2024年8月27日 · West Virginians get tax cut after lawmakers pull millions from agencies overseeing foster care, Medicaid and child care. byHenry CulvyhouseOctober 9th, 2024October 9th, 2024. In mid-September, Gov. Jim Justice told the people of West Virginia he’d be calling the Legislature back into session at the end of the month.
Our Team - Mountain State Spotlight
Deputy Managing Editor. Duncan Slade came to Mountain State Spotlight as Audience Manager before being promoted to Deputy Managing Editor in February 2023. Before joining the team, he was the editor-in-chief of the Daily Athenaeum, the independent campus newspaper of WVU. That year, he more than doubled the publication’s readership through ...
2022 Capitol Tracker — Mountain State Spotlight
2022 Capitol Tracker — Mountain State Spotlight. Track bills through the lengthy legislative process, contact elected officials, and follow live updates from our reporters.
The West Virginians We've Lost — Mountain State Spotlight
2021年3月28日 · On March 29, Viola York Horton died at Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown. Her death marked the first West Virginian lost to COVID-19. The dot in the upper-left corner of your screen represents her death. By March 28, 2021, one year later, 2,633 more Mountain State residents had died of COVID-19.