by Anastasia Mason | Jun 4, 2024 | Featured, Politics
This story aired in the June 4, 2024 episode of West Virginia Morning. Voter turnout in West Virginia, and across the country, is low. It’s even worse among young voters who say they are disconnected and not interested. Just before the May 14 primary election,...
by Anastasia Mason | Apr 3, 2024 | Featured, Immigration
WASHINGTON – Every week in downtown D.C., near the National Archives and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, hundreds of aspiring new Americans from 100 different countries navigate past groups of tourists and students on field trips to attend in-depth civics...
by Anastasia Mason | Mar 24, 2024 | Featured, Politics, Transportation
It’s taken 72 years for Donald Barrett, who has been blind his entire life, to feel “fully and completely independent,” a success he credits to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority’s MetroAccess system. “It’s the kind of independence that touches your...
by Anastasia Mason | Feb 14, 2024 | Immigration, Politics
WASHINGTON – Tensions between the Biden administration and Gov. Greg Abbott continued to heighten after a mother and two children drowned in the Rio Grande last month as they tried to cross the border from Mexico into the U.S. The drownings occurred near Eagle Pass’...
by Anastasia Mason | Feb 14, 2024 | Politics
MANASSAS, Va. – At their first joint campaign event in the 2024 presidential race, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris rallied voters around abortion access and reproductive rights at a northern Virginia university campus, but several Pro-Palestinian...
