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Giles Snyder

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NPR newscaster and aspiring local journalist. Curator of West Virginia news at wvweakly.substack.com

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01.08.2025 12:55 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Daily West Virginia Weakly: August 1, 2025 U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders coming to WV, State Senator Mike Stuart on Capitol Hill and Mountain Stage's 'Song of the Week'
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A radio cooperative serving Pocahontas County expects to lose more than half its annual budget after Congress passed a bill rescinding $1.1 billion previously approved for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, reports @lorikerseywv.bsky.social.
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31.07.2025 13:03 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Daily West Virginia Weakly: July 31, 2025 Mid-Atlantic Resiliency Link, Capito protesters fined, sales tax holiday and Lurch Fest is this weekend

Take the #WestVirginia Weakly’s poll and help settle a dispute over whether today’s β€œPic that says West Virginia” would make a GREAT tattoo, because β€” of course it would (not to put my thumb on the scale …)

31.07.2025 12:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Mine is usually beside the favorite chair that I call my desk, but ... it's disappeared!

24.07.2025 01:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump approves disaster declaration for Ohio, Marion counties in West Virginia β€’ West Virginia Watch The federal government has approved West Virginia’s request for a disaster declaration related to flash flooding.

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23.07.2025 18:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Daily West Virginia Weakly: July 23, 2025 Federal disaster declaration, Opioid settlement funds and novelist Davis Grubb

Turns out wilted lettuce is a #WestVirginia thing. Find out how to whip up this old fashioned dish in today's newsletter. open.substack.com/pub/wvweakly...

23.07.2025 15:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Just realized I've become that old guy whose kids wish he'd stop sending them reels he thinks are funny.

22.07.2025 16:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Long dead journalists and me The Sunday West Virginia Weakly for July 20, 2025

Apparently, I have a particular affinity for journalists who have been dead for a while. The latest Sunday #WestVirginia Weakly. Maybe subscribe?

20.07.2025 14:18 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Will Congress cut funds to NPR/PBS and foreign aid this week? The Trump administration has asked Congress to rescind funds for NPR/PBS and foreign aid. Congress has until the end of the week to approve the cuts.

Congress must meet a Friday deadline to pass funding cuts to NPR/PBS and foreign aid, otherwise the funding must be released. www.npr.org/2025/07/15/g...

15.07.2025 15:05 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Daily West Virginia Weakly: July 15, 2025 WV Board of Education set to kickoff legal battle and WV waits for a disaster declaration stemming from the Father's Day flooding

Today's reader-submitted cover photo comes from #WestVirginia's Cranberry Glades.

15.07.2025 14:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Daily West Virginia Weakly: July 10, 2025 Roane County Schools emergency, judge rules Water Development Authority violated state constitution and motorcyclists can now ride while standing

Today’s #WestVirginia photo comes to us from the Cranberry Wilderness.

10.07.2025 13:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Pack: Nearly 15,000 to receive funding for Hope Scholarship for upcoming school year - WV MetroNews Hope Scholarship program will be fully universal in 2026-2027 school year.

This is the forge that the future of the state is going to be formed in:

School choice in West Virginia is politically untouchable, and increasingly fiscally unaffordable. A whole lot of other things are going to have to give to keep it going, & they will
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09.07.2025 12:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Daily West Virginia Weakly: July 9, 2025 West Virginia waits for a disaster declaration, Del. Ian Masters, Hope Scholarship costs and an old boat from Hollywood's silent days

Today's reader-submitted photo made for a GREAT cover for the #WestVirginia Weakly! open.substack.com/pub/wvweakly...

09.07.2025 12:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Complete Works Of Ernie Pyle on Substack β€œSo when I saw the red side of the George R. Fink in front of me there, I picked up a marlin spike off the dock, having in mind that I’d just lay it alongside the captain’s ear the first time he opene...

Not exactly sure where my fascination with long dead journalists comes from. Maybe my gr-grandfather, who was a small town newspaperman. Anyway, discovered a Substack publishing the work of the famous WW2 correspondent Ernie Pyle.

06.07.2025 19:46 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Home - 2025 World Beard & Moustache Championships Compete against iconic beards from across the globe at the 2025 World Beard & Moustache Championships in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. July 3-5.

Drat ... I have to work. wbmc2025.com

03.07.2025 17:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Mexican sunflowers my wife has been nurturing are starting to bloom. I look forward to them every year.

03.07.2025 16:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If you're out and about in #WestVirginia tomorrow, send the Weakly your fireworks photos and pics of Independence Day celebrations. Would love to feature them Saturday morning. Email to wvweakly@substack.com

03.07.2025 15:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

As Cap says, "The price of freedom is high."

03.07.2025 15:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Also, I like how my beard is coming in. Don't usually grow it out very long.

03.07.2025 14:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I do that on the regular

03.07.2025 14:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Daily West Virginia Weakly: July 3, 2025 Del. Ian Masters set to speak on controversial Instagram remark, Kanawha County Judge Maryclaire Akers objects and a new opioid warning

Check it out here ...

03.07.2025 14:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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I kind of like this photo we used in this morning's #WestVirginia Weakly. It's the street sign marking WV Avenue in Washington, D.C.

03.07.2025 14:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you, sir!

02.07.2025 22:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Daily West Virginia Weakly: July 2, 2025 State Board of Education has a quite the agenda today, Capito and Justice vote "yes" on megabill, and power plant opponents turn out for public hearing in Tucker County

Interested in the #WestVirginia Weakly? Here's what turned up in subscriber inboxes this morning.. open.substack.com/pub/wvweakly...

02.07.2025 20:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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The West Virginia Weakly | Giles Snyder | Substack Curated news from around West Virginia and anything else that strikes us as worthwhile. Click to read The West Virginia Weakly, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

First post here on Blue Sky. I'm an NPR newscaster who aspires to be a more local journalist. Somehow seems more important these days. @davemistich.bsky.social and I curate a local journalism newsletter, The #WestVirginia Weakly, wvweakly.substack.com. Anyway, happy to be here!

02.07.2025 20:38 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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