WVU Today MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Alec Ross, West Virginia native and New York Times best-selling author, will visit West Virginia University as the next speaker in the David C. Hardesty, Jr. Festival of Ideas series March 21 at 7:30 p.m. in the Mountainlair Ballrooms. Ross will provide insight on the[Read More…]
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Veterans committee preparing for replica Vietnam Memorial Wall stop in West Virginia
By JEFFREY SAULTON The Parkersburg News and Sentinel PARKERSBURG — For the first time since 2014 a traveling replica of the Vietnam Memorial Wall will be in Parkersburg City Park in September. Bill Shepherd, chairman of the Special Veterans Project Committee, said the wall is a tribute. “All of the[Read More…]
Parkersburg News and Sentinel Job Fair set for Friday
By BRETT DUNLAP The Parkersburg News and Sentinel PARKERSBURG, W.Va. — Prospective employers and job seekers will meet at The Parkersburg News and Sentinel’s Job Fair on Friday at Grand Pointe Conference Center in Vienna. There are 25 companies and organizations signed up to participate in the event from 11[Read More…]
10 things to know: Wednesday, March 14
The regional bureau of The Associated Press, shares 10 things you need to know Wednesday, March 14, 2018. Look for full stories on these late-breaking news items and much more in West Virginia newspapers. 1. WHO CLAIMED VICTORY IN PENNSYLVANIA RACE Before the absentee ballots were completely counted in a[Read More…]
Justice fires Gayle Manchin from West Virginia Department of Education and Arts
By PHIL KABLER Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Gov. Jim Justice announced Monday night that he had fired Education and the Arts Secretary Gayle Manchin, wife of Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., after she sent out a news release in which she offered to “resign to remove any political pressure.” “She[Read More…]
Media Alert: Register now for WVU’s Academic Media Day on WV Forward Initiative
Event is Monday, March 19, in Morgantown MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Since West Virginia University President Gordon Gee introduced West Virginia Forward at last year’s West Virginia Chamber’s annual meeting, there has been lot said about the initiative among WVU, the State Department of Commerce and Marshall University, and ways it[Read More…]
With new members named, West Virginia PEIA task force starts work Tuesday
By PHIL KABLER Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A panel tasked with spending the next nine months studying West Virginia’s Public Employees Insurance Agency to find ways to reduce growing costs and resolve funding issues will meet for the first time Tuesday — after Gov. Jim Justice corrected what many[Read More…]
EDITORIAL Task Force: Real solution must be found for PEIA
The Inter-Mountain editorial Members of a task force appointed by Gov. Jim Justice to find “a permanent solution” to the Public Employees Insurance Agency are to hold their initial meeting on Tuesday. Let us hope their first step is to agree to find a real solution, not just a way[Read More…]
Optimism about ethane cracker abounds around Ohio Valley
By JENNIFER COMPSTON-STROUGH The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register COLUMBUS, Ohio — New details revealed Monday about a potential ethane cracker plant in Belmont County increased state and local officials’ optimism about the project. Gov. John Kasich and JobsOhio’s John Minor joined PTT Global Chemical and Daelim representatives in officially announcing that[Read More…]
Potential Belmont County cracker investment could hit $10 billion
By CASEY JUNKINS The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register COLUMBUS, Ohio — Gov. John Kasich said a pair of international energy firms now control about 500 acres of property needed to build the planned Belmont County ethane cracker, a project he said could now cost up to $10 billion. During a[Read More…]
