Prohibition-era laws meant to limit access to alcohol now cause headaches for law enforcement trying to crack down on underage drinking. When it came time at long last in 1934 to repeal Prohibition, our conscientious state lawmakers didn’t throw the baby out with the bathtub gin. They were measured. The Legislature would write laws to regulate the manufacture and sale…
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Recent Stories from the Magazine
Regrowing a Wasteland
West Virginia’s small towns find creative ways to grapple with a growing problem of food insecurity. Fifteen miles on an interstate is a lot different from 15 miles in the middle of Clay or Boone county. A 10-minute drive in larger towns takes you past amenities that require a 30-minute drive out of smaller ones. In 10 minutes, ice cream…
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Let’s Talk
A new podcast talks with people about the things that divide them. In the first moments of the first episode of Us & Them, a new podcast from West Virginia Public Broadcasting, host Trey Kay makes a phone call. We hear the phone ringing, and then a friendly sounding woman with a sing-songy Southern accent picks up and says hello. “That’s…
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Standing Up for West Virginia
The father of West Virginia finally gets the appreciation he deserves. There’s a good chance that, even if you’re a West Virginian, you’ve never heard of Francis Pierpont. There’s also a good chance that, if not for Francis Pierpont, you wouldn’t be a West Virginian at all, because West Virginia wouldn’t be a state. Today Pierpont is sometimes called the…
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Mind the Gap
Employers worry a flagging work ethic in West Virginia will hamper future growth. The great virtue of West Virginia workers was never that they were the smartest in the world—although they have proven to be plenty smart. West Virginia workers also never claimed to possess superior strength, although their backs were always strong enough to complete the task at hand….
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