By Lori Kersey | Deputy editor
Happy Sunday! Here's a roundup of this week's stories in case you missed them.
NEWS
The Women’s Health Center of West Virginia in Charleston, West Virginia, is one of only two community health providers in the state that openly offers gender-affirming care. (Photo courtesy of the Women’s Health Center of West Virginia)
Hope Scholarship price $155M so far after 26,617 WV students apply | Amelia Ferrell Knisely
Federal court strikes WV’s SNAP restrictions on soda | Lori Kersey
WV school leaders say multiple counties headed to insolvency after lawmakers didn’t tackle funding | Amelia Ferrell Knisely
Lawmakers overhaul how West Virginia provides clothes, beds to foster kids in need | Amelia Ferrell Knisely
Chemours would pay $11.25M to WV under proposed settlement in federal case over PFAS discharges | Caity Coyne
COMMENTARY
In 2022, U.S. prices across all drugs were nearly 2.78 times as high as prices in comparable countries, according to a study by RAND Health Care. (Photo by JGI/Jamie Grill/Getty Images)
Stories from the States
Tremont Township in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, has only one stop light, but the 300-person community is now at the center of the national immigration debate.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is planning to convert an old warehouse in the area into a 7,500-person detention facility. Many of Tremont’s most vocal residents are wary about whether their township can support the ICE facility.
Some see the planned detention center as a workforce opportunity, while others fear it will only exacerbate the community’s economic and environmental problems.
In Episode 34, we’re handing the reins to our States Newsroom colleagues at the Pennsylvania Capital-Star for Part 2 of their series “ICEd Out.”
“ICEd Out: Detention center plans meet resistance in Pennsylvania’s coal region” is a new series that explores how commonwealth residents are pushing back against the facilities.
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