By BISHOP NASH The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — While it’s become almost a national civic duty to “remember” the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor — now 76 years ago — fewer each year remain who physically remember the date “which will live in infamy.” When Medal of Honor recipient Hershel “Woody” Williams spoke[Read More…]
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Southern West Virginia gets glimpse of Special Ops soldiers
By GREG JORDAN Bluefield Daily Telegraph BLUEFIELD, W.Va. — Local leaders and the public had an opportunity Wednesday to meet U.S. Special Operations soldiers who have been using rugged terrain around the city of Bluefield along with parts of Mercer County and neighboring Tazewell County for an intensive training exercise. Elite[Read More…]
Student teaching experience in W.Va. about to get longer
By JIM ROSS The State Journal HUNTINGTON, W>Va. — Marshall University students who want to become teachers will spend more time in the classroom before they earn their degrees. “It won’t be easy, and it won’t be tomorrow, but we will be able to do it,” said Teresa Eagle, dean[Read More…]
WV DEP waives Clean Water Act authority over Atlantic Coast Pipeline
By KEN WARD JR. Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection on Wednesday waived the state’s authority under the federal Clean Water Act to determine if another major natural gas pipeline proposal would harm rivers and streams. The DEP announced in a news release that[Read More…]
WVU receives $4 million to commercialize work in vaccines, artificial intelligence and shale gas energy
WVU Today MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — From protecting us from dangerous infections to redefining the future of artificial intelligence to advancing the use of natural gas to bring economic benefit to the state, the depth and breadth of West Virginia University’s research and its potential to improve the lives of the[Read More…]
Three-million dollar grant will help build drug treatment center in Ohio County
By CASEY JUNKINS The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register WHEELING, W.Va. — A $3-million grant from the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources will allow a local faith-based group to transform the former Paul VI Pastoral Center into a long-term care center for approximately 100 women suffering from drug addiction.[Read More…]
WV Supreme Court Justice Allen Loughry: Citizens deserve whole high court story
By ALLEN H. LOUGHRY II Daily Mail Commentary Many have heard or read about the renovations at the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals. News media have boiled this down to a “he said/he said” situation, but that ignores the clear and critical facts. My very first act upon becoming[Read More…]
WV Supreme Court: No policy permitting home offices furnished with state property
By PHIL KABLER Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va — Despite claims that the West Virginia Supreme Court has a longstanding practice of providing court-owned furniture and equipment to justices to furnish their home offices, responses to a Freedom of Information Act request Wednesday conclude that no such policy exists. “A review[Read More…]
Congressional Republicans to attend retreat at The Greenbrier
By JAKE ZUCKERMAN Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — U.S. House and Senate Republicans are scheduled to attend a legislative retreat at The Greenbrier resort, owned by the family of West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice, in January. GOP lawmakers received a save-the-date notice for Jan. 31 through Feb. 2 at the[Read More…]
Morgantown Area Chamber of Commerce holds breakfast for WV legislators
By CONOR GRIFFITH The Exponent Telegram MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Workforce education and pay, along with taxes and the opioid crisis, were among the topics brought up during the Morgantown Area Chamber of Commerce’s breakfast with state legislators Wednesday morning. Dels. Rodney Pyles, John Williams, Dave Pethtel and Joe Statler, along[Read More…]
