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The Intelligencer on youth homelessness: Try to remember what it was like to go to bed at night after having finished your homework, or to wake up in the morning and join the family rush to get ready and get out the door to school. Think about having friends over. Think about knowing you had the same safe place to come home to each day after school; and that the routine would most likely be the same the next day, and the day after that … Too many West Virginia kids do not have that experience. In fact, according to a WV KIDS COUNT issue brief released this week, there were 10,417 youth classified as homeless during the 2019-20 school year. ....
Feb 8, 2021 CHARLESTON (AP) A Republican lawmaker in West Virginia who resigned after posting an anti-gay slur but then was re-elected is drawing fresh criticism for an extended online diatribe opposing protections against discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. House Delegate John Mandt said in a now-deleted Facebook post last week that he opposed the proposal known as the Fairness Act. “Oftentimes evil cloaks itself in pleasant sounding terms, and that is exactly what the Fairness Act does,” Mandt wrote. “There is nothing fair about it.” Republican Delegate Joshua Higginbotham has said he would be the lead sponsor of the legislation, which would ban discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity in employment, housing and public spaces. Similar protections exist in 22 states and the District of Columbia. ....