PARKERSBURG, W.Va. — Bragging rights have been set for the next year as readers chose the Mid Ohio Valley’s best of the best in the 2016 Parkersburg News and Sentinel Readers Choice. Readers ranked local businesses and organizations in 130 categories of services and products. Among those are cars, real[Read More…]
Month: December 2016
W.Va. Attorney General appoints Anthony Martin as chief deputy
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A chief deputy attorney general has been named by West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey. Morrisey appointed Anthony Martin as chief deputy, the first such appointee in Morrisey’s tenure as attorney general. Martin was COO and a senior deputy attorney general. Martin will manage legal and day-to-day[Read More…]
American Tort Reform Association uses threat of label to blackmail lawmakers
From the Parkersburg News and Sentinel: By JANE E. PEAK Guest Op-Ed For more than 10 years now the American Tort Reform Association, a front group bankrolled by America’s most powerful and wealthy CEOs, has attacked West Virginia with its widely discredited “Judicial Hellhole” report. It’s been debunked by everyone from the[Read More…]
Flannery, Connolly, Queen join W.Va. Secretary of State’s staff
Staff Report The Exponent Telegram MORGANTOWN — Harrison County’s Mike Queen has been selected as deputy chief of staff for external affairs and director of communications for Secretary of State-elect Mac Warner. The announcement was made Friday afternoon, when Warner also named Chuck Flannery chief of staff and Steve Connolly[Read More…]
Top story of 2016: Thousand-year flood
By Tina Alvey The Register-Herald BECKLEY, W.Va. — A day that dawned with severe thunderstorms and torrential downpours and ended in tragedy, June 23 undoubtedly will go into the Mountain State’s history books as the day of the thousand-year flood. Southern West Virginia’s hardest hit area, Greenbrier County, saw 11[Read More…]
2016 in retrospect: Gov. Tomblin was a resource
From Executive Director Don Smith, WVPRESS Extra Blog: Tomorrow starts the new year, but it’s hard to think about the future, or keep your mind in the present, on Dec. 31. Reminiscing seems appropriate and necessary. Working for the West Virginia Press Association means lots of days at the Capitol[Read More…]
FERC gives favorable report of Atlantic Coast Pipeline
Max Galand Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission staff released a favorable draft report on the environmental impact of the proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline project Friday, a major step toward approval of the construction that would go through national forests in West Virginia. The executive summary[Read More…]
W.VA. gas tax to drop 1 cent beginning Jan. 1
By Fred Pace The Herald Dispatch CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Drivers in the Mountain State will pay a penny less tax on a gallon of motor fuel in 2017, according to data released this week by the West Virginia State Tax Department. The state tax imposed on a gallon of motor fuel[Read More…]
AG Morrisey warns of post-holiday scammings
By DANYEL VANREENAN The Journal CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Now that the holidays are over, many West Virginians will be looking for ways to recover from holiday expenses. Attorney General Patrick Morrisey is warning West Virginians of potential employment scams posing as money-making opportunities. Morrisey urged the public to research any[Read More…]
Mountaineers: Bad bowl, excellent season
By BRAD JOHNSON The Inter-Mountian You could hear it in everyone’s tone of voice Wednesday evening. Local residents’ speech sounded flat and lifeless. We spoke in slow monotones. We were depressed. Why? Because we’d just watched our beloved Mountaineers lose a bowl game. WVU started strong in the 2016 Russell[Read More…]
