Month: May 2015

Lawmakers can’t put tax reform burden on counties

An editorial from The Exponent Telegram CLARKSBURG, W.Va. — Tax reform is a difficult proposition. If it were easy, we’d have done it years ago. Currently, the legislative Select Committee for Fair Taxation has held a couple of meetings in Charleston on reforming the state’s tangled tax code and many county[Read More…]

Report says pain clinic personnel lacked training

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — At a Raleigh County pain clinic earlier this year, state inspectors interviewed a medical director who said he tried to change pain-pill prescribing practices at the facility, but the clinic’s practice manager nixed the idea and issued a directive: “Give patients what they want.” The state Office[Read More…]

What Does an Opioid Overdose Look Like? An ER Doctor Explains

The Needle and the Damage Done: West Virginia’s Heroin Epidemic By Beth Vorhees West Virginia Public Broadcasting Editor’s Note: This is one in a series of stories by West Virginia Public Broadcasting, called “The Needle and the Damage Done: West Virginia’s Heroin Epidemic.” You can find the entire series, as well as[Read More…]

Bluefield men among ‘Three Stooges’ in ’42 parade

BLUEFIELD, W.Va. — The on-going aggression of the Nazi war machine, Italy’s fascist regime uniting with the Germans and Emperor Hirohito’s attack on Pearl Harbor — had Americans ready when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt asked Congress for a declaration of total war on the Axis powers. “Everyone was joining the[Read More…]

Bluefield residents recall math genius John Nash

BLUEFIELD, W.Va.  — An American genius, Dr. John Forbes Nash Jr., and his wife of 58 years, Alicia Larde Nash, were pronounced dead at the scene of a two vehicle wreck on Saturday afternoon on the New Jersey Turnpike. Last Tuesday, Nash had received the prestigious Abel Award in mathematics[Read More…]

Bluefield honors fallen soldiers on Memorial Day

BLUEFIELD, W.Va. — The Riley-Vest Post No. 9, American Legion continued an age-old tradition Monday by conducting a Memorial Day service to honor men and women in all branches of the U.S. military who made the supreme sacrifice, and gave their lives in defense of American freedom. “This is a[Read More…]

The Associated Press shares 10 things to know Tuesday, May 26

Dorothy Abernathy, The Associated Press bureau chief for West Virginia and Virginia, shares the 10 things you need to know Tuesday, May 26, 2015. Look for full stories on these late-breaking news items, upcoming events and stories in West Virginia newspapers: 1. 12 MISSING AFTER FLOODING IN TEXAS SWEEPS AWAY[Read More…]

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