Emily Allen, Author at Mountain State Spotlight

Efforts to curb child abuse in schools include bills to increase the monitoring of security cameras in schools and to prevent teachers and other employees who harm children from working in the classroom.

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In combating child abuse, WV lawmakers focus on reaction rather than prevention

No one in WV knows how many people are truly experiencing homelessness. Here’s how one city is trying to fix that

In Justice’s State of the State, lip service but few substantive proposals for WV’s biggest challenges

A new report on WV’s coalfields communities has more than 80 ideas, but so far, little legislation

WV has been slow to spend money for renters and landlords during the pandemic. So the feds took more than $3 million of the money back.

Lawmakers promised to help West Virginia’s coalfield communities. As the session begins, their plan for doing so remains unclear

Despite years of devastating floods, state still hasn’t implemented plan to protect West Virginians

This historic northern WV town highlights the needs of the state’s coal communities

In search for new coalfield ideas, an old, failed project is again a focus

The Atlantic Coast Pipeline is dead. But for some WV landowners, it lives on

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