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West Virginia AG promising legal challenge to Biden’s vaccine mandate

By Charles Owens, Bluefield Daily Telegraph CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey is promising a legal challenge to President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate for millions of working Americans. Morrisey, a Republican, issued a statement calling Biden’s move a “historic overreach,” adding that his office has already been[Read More…]

Senator Manchin: West Virginia’s healthcare providers can soon apply for additional Provider Relief Funds

WV Press Release Sharing WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) announced that West Virginia’s healthcare providers can soon apply for $25.5 billion in new funding from the Provider Relief Fund, including $8.5 billion specifically for rural providers that Senator Manchin fought to include in the American Rescue Plan.[Read More…]

West Virginia lawmakers learn about Parkersburg residential addiction recovery moratorium

By Steven Allen Adams, The Parkersburg News and Sentinel CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Lawmakers in West Virginia are considering additional restrictions on residential addiction recovery homes and sober living houses during the next legislative session after Parkersburg’s moratorium in July. Members of the Joint Committee on Health met Sunday on the[Read More…]

West Virginians ask for transparency, fairness in redistricting process

By Lacie Pierson, Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — People at a hearing about West Virginia’s legislative redistricting process told lawmakers Thursday they are most concerned about transparency and ensuring the House of Delegates has 100 single-member districts. In the West Virginia Culture Center, 14 people, including county elections officials, county[Read More…]

Stair climb in Princeton, W.Va., honors 9/11 first responders

By Greg Jordan, Bluefield Daily Telegraph PRINCETON, W.Va. — Some firefighters and police officers wore heavy rescue gear and other participants wore weighted vests as they climbed up steep bleachers and ran to honor the fallen first responders who rushed to the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. Local[Read More…]

Opinion: NRGRDA strategy to prioritize coal-to-products commercialization to revitalize southern West Virginia economy

By Jina Belcher  Ground zero for federal efforts to boost communities reeling from the downturn in coal as a major economic driver is focused on southern West Virginia — where I and many of my close colleagues were born, have lived, studied, and worked our entire lives. Acknowledging that the predominance of coal for power generation is fading, the New River Gorge Regional Development Authority (NRGRDA) recognizes that West Virginia continues to have metallurgic-grade[Read More…]

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