The King Coal Highway is an audacious plan to remake southern West Virginia—1,200 feet up. Imagine a farm with strong, suntanned workers plucking vegetables from long rows and placing them in crates. Behind a distant fence, pink and black pigs root and grunt. Row crops, in another direction, give way to fruit trees. It might make you think of California—but…
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Recent Stories from the Magazine
Women in Investment
These women mix, mingle, and make money in the stock market. On the first Tuesday of every month, a group of some 30 women from all walks of life meets at a Morgantown eatery or home to catch up and talk current events. But the monthly gathering isn’t some get-together for those fabled “ladies who lunch.” These ladies are part…
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Time Re-Imagined
What happened to all the talk about year-round school? It’s not easy, overcoming agrarian roots. But this school year, 2014-15, marks a step along the way. It’s the first year every county school district in the state is required to not only schedule but actually achieve 180 days of instruction—even if making up snow days means continuing well into June….
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West Virginia’s 2014 Wonder Women
2014 West Virginia Wonder Women· Building a Better State· Focus· West Virginia Wonder Women
Appalachian women have always been strong figures. These women bring that mountain spirit to everything from technology and manufacturing to activism and law, in every part of the state. West Virginia Focus celebrates them—and expresses Great Expectations for their up-and-coming sisters. Living Local Alisa Bailey thinks Charleston—not to mention the state as a whole—is poised for a renaissance, and she says…
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Madam Senator
The two women vying to be our next senator open up about themselves, their backgrounds, and their thoughts on the future for women in West Virginia. “What’s it like being both a woman and a politician?” They’ve both gotten this question dozens, maybe hundreds of times over the course of their careers, because they’re both powerful women in politics—and now…
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