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Old-time fiddler Ben Townsend (right) leads his apprentice Bodhi Gibbons-Guinn on a tune performed at Arthurdale Heritage for a West Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Showcase hosted in  November 2025. (Photo by Michael Keller)

Despite federal funding cuts affecting state humanities councils across the country, the Folklife Apprenticeship program b...


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House Health Chair Evan Worrell, R-Cabell, has requested more detailed information on how Gov. Patrick Morrisey is spending federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families funding. (Photo by Perry Bennett/West Virginia Legislative Photography)

Gov. Patrick Morrisey has tied continued delays with the school clothing allowance program to a looming s...


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The West Virginia Legislature Capitol dome in Charleston, West Virginia. (Perry Bennett | West Virginia Legislative Photography)

Somehow we are supposed to have efficiency in government while not having efficiency in how we talk to each other about government. No wonder we get more of the same but louder, faster, harder. 

In ancient Rome th...


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Lorie Bragg has resigned as commissioner of the state’s Bureau for Social Services. (Photo courtesy of the West Virginia Department of Human Services)

Lorie Bragg is no longer the commissioner of the state’s Bureau for Social Services, a position tasked with overseeing the troubled foster care system.

Bragg officially stepped into the role ...


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Sarah and Ricky Mathes have been living in a leaky camper while they wait for accessible housing in Upshur County. (Photo by Lori Kersey/West Virginia Watch)

ROCK CAVE, W.Va. — Sarah and Ricky Mathes waited out


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