Release from Gov. Justice’s office: New Martinsville businessman to replace Leonhardt CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Gov. Jim Justice has appointing Charles Clements to the fill the 2nd district state senate seat vacated by Agriculture Commissioner Kent Leonhardt. The district covers all of Wetzel County, Tyler County, Doddridge County, Ritchie County and Calhoun County, and parts of[Read More…]
Month: January 2017
WV Attorney General Morrisey alerts consumers to ‘Can You Hear Me Now’ scam
Release from W.Va. Attorney General’s office: CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey issued a scam alert warning consumers to not answer the question, “Can you hear me now?” Answering that one question can subject consumers to the latest scam. Media reports indicate the scam is circulating throughout[Read More…]
WVU shares information, plans open forum in wake of Trump immigration Executive Order
Release from WVUToday: MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – In a letter to West Virginia University faculty, staff and students, President E. Gordon Gee discusses steps the University is taking in the wake of the Executive Order suspending entry into the United States “of both nonimmigrants and immigrants” from at least seven countries for 90 days from[Read More…]
Justice: 2019 budget hole could be $700 million
By ANDREA LANNOM Times West Virginian BECKLEY, W.Va. — With the state’s budget deficit expected to reach more than $700 million in the 2019 fiscal year, Gov. Jim Justice said he hopes to find a way to staunch the bleeding — but said it will take time. Justice spoke to[Read More…]
Logan County delegate switches party affiliation
By ANDREA LANNOM Bluefield Daily Telegraph BECKLEY, W.Va. — Citing frustration with the Democrat party and reactions to the presidential inauguration, Logan County Delegate Rupie Phillips announced Thursday he is switching his affiliation to become the state Legislature’s sole independent. Phillips said in a release that he hoped his former party[Read More…]
WV’s Burwell new president of American University
By LORI KERSEY Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Sylvia Mathews Burwell, the former secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and a West Virginia native, will be the next president of American University, the school announced Thursday. Burwell, who grew up in Hinton and was the 2016[Read More…]
By CASEY JUNKINS The Intelligencer/Wheeling News-Register MINGO JUNCTION, Ohio — Almost eight years after Russian firm OAO Severstal shuttered the former Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corp. mill in Mingo Junction, new hot metal should soon roll out of the facility that is now known as ACERO Junction. “We are working on it.[Read More…]
Vigil held in Wheeling before Washington, D.C. Pro-Life March
By HEATHER ZIEGLER The Intelligencer/Wheeling News-Register WHEELING, W.Va. — When Shaini Faini was in high school, she wrote a term paper on abortion that has had a lasting effect on her life as a Christian. “What I learned and saw in my research turned my stomach,” said Faini, a member of[Read More…]
Top Democrats meeting in Shepherdstown
Rights Exercise: Rally garners large crowd during Senate retreat
By DANYEL VANREENEN The Journal SHEPHERDSTOWN, W.Va. — While Democratic senators convened for private meetings at the Bavarian Inn on Thursday, people exercised their rights of free expression to make their voices heard with a rally outside. The rally was organized overnight, according to Kate Savidan, state coordinator for the[Read More…]
