Affordability is increasingly a daily concern for working families in West Virginia, including in the Eastern Panhandle, It's especially a concern for teachers and other government officials who have their health insurance paid through PEIA. Premium increases and eroding provider services are outpacing the higher cost of living in the EP. Those high costs are forcing many to leave the state and they're jeopardizing the health of our educational and community services. Emily Asif makes the argument for actual PEIA reform, not just promises from our representatives that they'll look into the problem.
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It's all too often said that the youth of the country are our future. But the reality is that the youth of our country are too often not listened to. Jakob Light is one of those young people who decided that he wanted to be heard and so he founded a group, the Jefferson County Young Democrats, to give young voices a megaphone.
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The Federal Congress and the West Virginia Legislature are considering major changes to the Voting Rights Act that will make voting much more difficult to near impossible for millions of Americans. We have to vigorously oppose these developments to assure the health of our democracy.
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