On this West Virginia Morning, Ashleigh Shanti won a James Beard Foundation Media Award last year for her cookbook, “Our South: Black Food Through My Lens.” For Inside Appalachia, Mason Adams visits her Asheville restaurant Good Hot Fish for a fish sandwich and a side of conversation.

At the legislature, lawmakers have approved a state budget earlier than anyone can remember. And a federal lawsuit seeks to expand access to methadone, while an oil spill surfaces in Pennsylvania.

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