This week on the Charleston Gazette-Mail's Mountain State Morning, we're talking about how West Virginians are feeling the effects of a partial federal government shutdown. Also: A study from WVU and the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources might tell us a lot more about bobcats in the state, and a manufacturing plant being built in the Eastern Panhandle is facing pushback from residents.

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