Month: December 2016

Ryan Ferns Selected West Virginia Senate Majority Leader

By JOSELYN KING The Intelligencer/Wheeling News-Register WHEELING, W.Va. — Ryan Ferns has been tapped to be the West Virginia Senate’s next majority leader, and he hinted he may not be the only member of the Northern Panhandle delegation taking a leadership position when the Legislature convenes in January. Ferns, a[Read More…]

WV GOP: ACA repeal, rollback of EPA regulations start next month

By ANDREW BROWN Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia’s state and federal Republican leaders are ready to repeal health care and environmental regulations as the party nears takeover of the White House, Congress, the state Legislature and a majority of the statewide elected offices. At the top of the[Read More…]

Joint committee on education examines home-school extracurricular activities

By ANDREA LANNOM The Register-Herald CHARLESTON, W.Va.  — Legislators listened to information Monday on whether students who do not attend public schools should be able to participate in extracurricular activities and what effect an educational savings account program would have on the state. Legislators from both chambers met Monday in[Read More…]

JobsOhio to Provide Funds for Cracker Site Remediation

By CASEY JUNKINS The Intelligencer/Wheeling News-Register DILLES BOTTOM, Ohio  — More than $17 million worth of funds derived from Ohio liquor sales are being used to remediate the potential PTT Global Chemical ethane cracker site in Belmont County, officials with JobsOhio said. Today, JobsOhio officials announced a $14 million grant[Read More…]

Opinion: Manchin would be great choice for energy secretary

The Journal Perhaps the most important Cabinet secretary President-elect Donald Trump will select is a person to head the Department of Energy. Our entire economy, not to mention much of our foreign policy, relies on energy. During the past eight years, President Barack Obama and liberals in Congress have used[Read More…]

Study shows more W.Va. students eating school breakfast

By MICHAEL ERB The Parkersburg News and Sentinel PARKERSBURG, W.Va. — A national study found participation in school breakfast programs increasing in West Virginia and Ohio. A study released Monday by the American Dairy Association Mideast said schools participating in the Fuel Up To Play 60 grant program in West[Read More…]

WVU players read to Trinity kids

The Dominion Post MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Some of Trinity Christian School’s younger students received some special visitors Dec. 5. Members of the WVU football team — Kyle Ayers, Logan Thimons, Druw Bowen and Reese Donahue — met with the school’s second-grade class. There, they had a read aloud with the[Read More…]

Tuesday, Dec. 6: 10 things to know

ASSOCIATED PRESS Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today: 1. WHERE TRUMP’S ‘THANK YOU’ TOUR IS HEADED NEXT The president-elect’s appearance in Fayetteville, North Carolina, will be followed by rallies in Iowa and Michigan later this week. 2. US LAWMAKERS[Read More…]

The Nutcracker

BECKLY, W.Va. — Clara, (Ellie Boyd) and Unclel Drosselmeyer (Brian Murphy) dance opening night of Beckley Dance Theatre and Beckley Performing Arts’ annual production of The Nutcracker Dec. 2 n the Woodrow Wilson High School Auditorium. The show runs again Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2:30 p.m. Photo[Read More…]

State leaders coalescing on budget

By ANDREA LANNOM The Register-Herald CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia lawmakers who received nominations for leadership positions in the House and Senate agreed during the opening of the legislative interims on Sunday that the budget should be the top priority in the upcoming session. Lawmakers met in Charleston Sunday, the[Read More…]

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