WVU Today MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Online graduate business programs in data analytics, the online MBA, and forensic accounting and fraud examination at West Virginia University have been recognized in the top 50 of the latest U.S. News & World Report Best Online Program rankings, as has an online graduate engineering[Read More…]
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West Virginia Attorney general pitches moving Medicaid Fraud Unit
By STEVEN ALLEN ADAMS The Parkersburg News and Sentinel CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey wants lawmakers to turn over the state’s Medicaid Fraud Unit to his office. The Senate Finance Committee heard from Morrisey during his office’s annual budget presentation Monday afternoon. The office has requested[Read More…]
Sen. Manchin hosts discussion with prison employees on government shutdown in Fairmont
By ERIC HRIN Times West Virginian FAIRMONT — Richard Heldreth, a correctional officer at Hazelton Federal Correctional Complex, has felt the effects of the government shutdown. “It’s hard,” he said. “I started cutting back before Christmas in anticipation of this happening, and canceled plans throughout Christmas.” On Monday, he and[Read More…]
Blue Ribbon panel’s $10M request for West Virginia colleges not in governor’s budget proposal
By RYAN QUINN Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Gov. Jim Justice’s state budget proposal for next fiscal year doesn’t include increasing the annual funding for West Virginia’s smaller four-year colleges by $10 million, as the governor’s Blue Ribbon Commission on Four-Year Higher Education has requested. Whether the $10 million will[Read More…]
10 things to know: Tuesday, January 15
The regional bureau of The Associated Press, shares 10 things you need to know Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019. Look for full stories on these late-breaking news items and much more in West Virginia newspapers. 1. BIG DAY FOR BREXIT’S SURVIVAL British lawmakers are set to vote on Prime Minister Theresa[Read More…]
Around the Rotunda: Legislative, committee schedule for Tuesday, Jan. 15
Watch WV Legislature Live each day at http://www.legis.state.wv.us/live.cfm Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019 7th Day of the Legislative Session Rotunda and social activities: Volunteer West Virginia, Upper House and Upper Senate Rotundas; WV Manufacturers Association Legislative Reception, 2001 Quarrier Street, Charleston, WV, 5-7 p.m.; OMEGA, WVTA and WVWA Legislative Reception, Association Office, 2000 Kanawha Boulevard, East. SENATE: The Senate will[Read More…]
WVPA mourns the death of Tina Bolyard, former owner of the Preston County Journal
Services for the former WVPA President set for 11 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 15 FELLOWSVILLE, W.Va. — Tina Marie (Wolfe) Bolyard, 60, of Fellowsville, passed away on Friday, January 11, 2019 surrounded by her loved ones at her home. She was born Oct. 7, 1958, in Grafton, daughter of the late[Read More…]
‘Money down the drain’: WV losing most of water it produces
By CAITY COYNE Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Only one quarter of the water West Virginia water systems pay to have treated and pumped ever reaches a faucet, according to a Gazette-Mail analysis of the most recent annual reports filed by 305 public, community, municipal and private water systems to[Read More…]
Atlantic Coast Pipeline delay having negative economic impact
By AMANDA HAYES For The Inter-Mountain BUCKHANNON, W.Va. — Since hundreds of workers left Upshur County in December due to rulings delaying the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, local businesses have been impacted negatively. In Upshur County, employment went from approximately 700 at peak construction down to a little over 100 employees,[Read More…]
