Press Release from West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection: CHARLESTON, W.Va. – West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (WVDEP) Cabinet Secretary Austin Caperton today announced that Jake Glance will serve as the agency’s acting public information officer. Glance has been with the WVDEP since March of 2015 as a Public[Read More…]
Month: January 2017
Edward Maguire II named WVDEP environmental advocate
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (WVDEP) Cabinet Secretary Austin Caperton today announced that Edward Maguire II will serve as the agency’s Environmental Advocate. Maguire begins work on Feb. 1. Since 1990, Maguire has served as the president and owner of The Highlands Group, Inc., a land[Read More…]
Media Alert: WVU experts available on immigration executive order
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — A number of West Virginia University faculty are available to discuss issues related to the Executive Order signed Friday (Jan. 27) by President Donald Trump suspending entry into the United States “of both nonimmigrants and immigrants” from at least seven countries for 90 days or more from the[Read More…]
Walk-in services scaled back at state tax department locations
Release from the W.Va. Tax Department: CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Effective immediately walk-in services at West Virginia State Tax Department locations across the state are being scaled back because of budgetary and staffing constraints. As a part of the reconfiguration of walk-in services, Tax Department employees will no longer be permitted to[Read More…]
Budget concerns limit services at state tax department
By RUSTY MARKS The State Journal CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Concerns over the state budget have prompted West Virginia Tax Commissioner Dale Steager to cut back public services offered to walk-in customers at state tax department locations. Tax department employees will no longer be able to prepare state tax returns for[Read More…]
Kroger pharmacies throughout WV now dispense Naloxone without a prescription
Staff reports The State Journal CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Kroger pharmacies in West Virginia now are dispensing Naloxone without a prescription. Naloxone reverses the effects of opioid overdoses. It also can be used as a preventive measure for patients on chronic opioid pain management for cancer pain or pain because of[Read More…]
WVU holds forum, vigil over immigration ban
By BEN CONLEY The Dominion Post MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — WVU needs and supports its international students. It’s too early to know. Those two statements, in various forms, sum up much of the open forum held Jan. 30 in the Mountainlair in reaction to the executive order signed Friday by President[Read More…]
Marshall President Gilbert addresses Trump’s executive order
By WILLIE IZZO The Parthenon HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Students, staff and faculty gathered in room BE 5 of the Memorial Student Center Monday for a forum regarding President Donald Trump’s executive orders and specifically how they affect Marshall University’s international student population. The meeting was announced early Monday via a[Read More…]
Manchin voices concern over Trump refugee order
By ERIN BECK Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — As about 100 people gathered outside U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin’s office in Charleston to protest President Donald Trump’s executive order that banned people from several countries from entering the United States, Manchin said Trump’s executive order was “not a common-sense approach.” “As[Read More…]
In letter, Justice again tries to address conflicts of interest
By ANDREW BROWN Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — In an attempt to address concerns about conflicts between his new office and his old businesses, Gov. Jim Justice sent a letter to state employees Monday saying he doesn’t “want a thing from this office.” “The last thing I want is a[Read More…]
