Mountain State Spotlight: West Virginia News and Reporting
2024年12月10日 · 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.
DOE ARCH2 project open to public comment
1 天前 · West Virginians with questions or concerns about the planned regional network of hydrogen facilities across Appalachia have until March 3 to submit comments to the U.S. Department of Energy to help shape its study of the project’s environmental impact.
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2 天之前 · West Virginians with questions or concerns about the planned regional network of hydrogen facilities across Appalachia have until March 3 to submit comments to the U.S. Department of Energy to help shape its study of the project’s environmental impact.
Digital 2024 Impact Report — Mountain State Spotlight
Table of contents View this impact report as a pdf Introduction Making West Virginia Better Four years ago, West Virginia was at a crossroads: substance abuse ripping families apart, the coal-based economy bottoming out, trust in government cratering, and a global pandemic bearing down. Legacy media organizations were struggling. …
Welcome to Mountain State Spotlight!
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 ...
Safety officials push back on West Virginia’s ‘quiet zone’
2024年12月4日 · Inside West Virginia’s quiet zone, 66-year-old federal restrictions on radio communications strictly limit internet access and service from cell towers to clear the way for a space observatory and a spy listening station.
Reflections from reporting in 55 counties
2024年11月26日 · Over the last six months, I’ve gotten to see so much more of West Virginia. From the first state capitol building up in Wheeling to the historic steps of the McDowell County Courthouse down in Welch to where the Luke Paper Mill previously stood near Keyser.
Utility & internet companies consider fixes to broadband disputes
2024年12月10日 · Internet providers, utility companies and West Virginia broadband officials are trying to speed up settling pole attachment disputes that threaten the state’s $1.2 billion broadband expansion, according to proposals from a closed-door task force obtained by …
What Mountain State Spotlight is doing after the election
2024年11月8日 · The votes are counted. The results have been announced. On Tuesday, West Virginians elected a new U.S. senator and congressman, a new governor and a lot of new legislators.
What we learned from voters in all 55 WV counties
2024年11月3日 · As a reader-supported West Virginian newsroom, we rely on your generosity to power our journalism. Now through December 31, the Henry L. Kimelman Family Foundation will match your donation. We are committed to giving West Virginians the information they need to make our state a better place.