A blog by Don Smith, WVPA Executive Director: Jan. 6, 2014: I think West Virginia media is providing excellent social media coverage for Legislative Lookahead today at the Marshall University campus in South Charleston. Follow comments on twitter at #wvlookahead You can also look for coverage in from the following[Read More…]
Month: January 2014
Future of Transportation in West Virginia discussed at Lookahead
Legislative Lookahead: Future of coal addressed
Marshall University welcomes Legislative Lookahead
WVPA Sharing: Legislative Lookahead underway in Charleston
Editor’s Note: Following comments on twitter at #wvlookahead. CHARLESTON, W.VA. — The West Virginia AP Legislative Lookahead got off on schedule today despite snowy roads and cold weather. The first panel addresses the proposed Fund Future and energy production and taxation in West Virginia. Panelists include WV Senate President Jeff[Read More…]
Forces marshalled in Huntington to help homeless
By Dave Lavender The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — When Missy Browning saw the severity of temperatures forecast to hit the Tri-State this week, she knew she had to act. Browning, who volunteers with Huntington City Mission, Harmony House and on medical missions, put out an urgent plea to her 1,600[Read More…]
The Associated Press shares 10 things to know Monday, Jan. 6
Dorothy Abernathy, The Associated Press bureau chief for West Virginia and Virginia, shares the 10 things you need to know Monday, Jan. 6, 2014. Look for full stories on these late-breaking news items, upcoming events and stories in West Virginia newspapers: 1. WHERE `POLAR VORTEX’ IS TAKING AIM The whirlpool[Read More…]
Pendleton County spy base cited in Snowden leaks
By Rick Steelhammer Charleston Gazette CHARLESTON, W.Va. — References to a National Security Agency communications-intercept operation at the Navy Information Operations Command base at Sugar Grove, Pendleton County, are included among documents leaked to the news media by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. According to a Dec. 10 article[Read More…]
Long-serving officials not exempt from the rules
An editorial from the Parkersburg News and Sentinel PARKERSBURG, W.Va. — When Walt Helmick became West Virginia commissioner of agriculture last year, one of the first things he did was to request a thorough audit of his department. That is not unusual, especially when an office holder’s predecessor has been[Read More…]
Slow-motion plane crash in Buckhannon
Buckhannon’s Record-Delta publishes on Monday, Wednesday and Friday but hustled out to cover a plane crash over the weekend and posted the news on Facebook: “According to corporal Jason Queen with the Upshur County Sheriff’s Department, James Meadows, 30, of Hendersonville, Tenn., was flying a single-engine Cirrus SR22 when[Read More…]
