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W.Va. Opioid Settlement Funds are Supposed to Reverse Years of Crisis. In Several Counties, They’re Being Used to Pay Regional Jail Bills.
In rural Wyoming County, West Virginia, Ann Reed is the sheriff’s department’s only social worker. Funded through a temporary ...
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W.Va. Counties Set the Rules for Opioid Funds — with No One Watching
For two hours every Thursday and Friday, Randall Brown gathers a handful of people in front of a whiteboard. They sit on a ...
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The Price of Recovery
As millions in opioid settlement funds reach West Virginia, counties are making high-stakes choices about how to spend it — ...
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Hillbilly Horror: Reckoning With a Genre 15 Years After 'Wrong Turn' - 100 Days in Appalachia
“You’re not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, Agent Starling? And that accent you’ve tried so desperately to shed: pure West Virginia. What is your father, dear? Is he a coal ...
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In West Virginia’s Southern Coalfields, a Grassroots ‘Jubilee’
On a late spring day in 2022, Rev. Brad Davis was riding along the twisting roads of McDowell County, West Virginia. Davis was soon to start his current job pastoring five United Methodist churches ...
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North Carolina County Wanted New Court to Stem Its Opioid Crisis. Then Came Trump’s Cuts.
This article was published in partnership with The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system. Sign up for their newsletters, and follow them on ...
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Documenting the Appalachian Intifada: A Review of ‘So Much to be Angry About’
Liberation movements around the world and throughout history have always created our own media: to tell our own stories, to teach our own people and to strengthen our movements and organizations. In ...
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‘They’re All Damaged.’ Despite Progress, West Virginia is Still Failing to Get Foster Kids the Mental Health Help They Need
Reporting highlights. Locked up: West Virginia still sends kids with physical or emotional disabilities to group homes and treatment centers at a rate three times the national average, according to ...
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Ready for a Road Trip? A Guide to the Sights & Bites of Central, Southern Appalachia
As with any road trip, expect the unpredictable. A big section of the Blue Ridge is closed for construction and others will take turns being under repair as part of a three year maintenance project ...
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Rural Tennessee is Losing More Hospitals Than Anywhere in the Country, But COVID-19 Isn't Fully to Blame - 100 Days in Appalachia
This is the third story in Critical Condition, a three part series. Read more here. “I’m hopin’,” Andrea Haas says with conviction. The Remote Area Medical clinic has come to Jellico, Tennessee, in ...
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Holler, Y’all and Appalachian Drawls: My Childhood of Code Switching in Appalachia
When I was in elementary school, a teacher told me that I needed to speak “properly.” She said my twang made me sound unintelligent. When I began serving on a state leadership board for high school ...
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No One Knows Appalachia’s Story Quite Like We Do – So We’re Going to Tell It.
Four years ago, our country was in the midst of one of the most divisive elections in history — one that deepened the divide between rural and urban America. Misrepresentations and overgeneralizations ...