By ANDREA LANNOM The Register-Herald CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The Public Employees Insurance Agency Task Force met for the first time Tuesday, deciding to divide into three committees to study different aspects of the insurance plan before coming back together for a more in-depth meeting next month. Gov. Jim Justice appointed[Read More…]
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Justice urges West Virginia PEIA task force to ‘shake up the world’
By PHIL KABLER Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Kicking off the first meeting of the Task Force on PEIA Stability, Gov. Jim Justice urged the 29-member panel to “shake up the world” and find lasting solutions to control rising costs for the health plan for more than 200,000 West Virginians.[Read More…]
Media Alert: POSTPONED – WVU’s Academic Media Day on WV Forward Initiative
Event will be rescheduled MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — WVU has announced that its Academic Media Day has been postponed and will be rescheduled. When rescheduled, the program will introduce state media representatives to some of that work, as well as some of the individuals, leading the West Virginia Forward initiative. “One of the most popular[Read More…]
Justice allows West Virginia election vacancy bill he vetoed in 2017 to become law
By JAKE ZUCKERMAN Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A bill Gov. Jim Justice vetoed last year as a Democrat quietly became law without his signature on Saturday. The West Virginia Legislature passed House Bill 3004, which says when certain politicians vacate office, they must be replaced by a member of[Read More…]
Huntington High School included in school anti-gun walkouts set for today
By BISHOP NASH The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Thousands of students representing hundreds of schools around the world will mark the one-month anniversary of the mass school shooting in Parkland, Florida, by staging a coordinated walkout advocating for tighter gun regulations in the United States. Demonstrations are planned today for at least three[Read More…]
West Virginia DEP orders Rover Pipeline to stop construction, citing multiple violations
By KATE MISHKIN Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — State regulators have slapped a cease-and-desist order on a natural gas pipeline, citing multiple water pollution violations, according to a letter made public by the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection. The 713-mile-long Rover Pipeline, which would transport 3.25 billion cubic feet of[Read More…]
Mountaineer starts work on Morgan County gas pipeline
By JIM McCONVILLE The Journal BERKELEY SPRINGS –Mountaineer Gas Company has started work on its 22.5-mile natural gas pipeline to run from Berkeley Springs to Martinsburg when complete, company officials said. Two Mountaineer construction crews have started work in Berkeley Springs and Martinsburg– the beginning and ending points for the[Read More…]
Gayle Manchin speaks out after abrupt firing as West Virginia Secretary of Education and the Arts
By JOSELYN KING The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register WHEELING, W.Va. — Gayle Manchin hopes her termination as West Virginia Secretary of Education and the Arts this week forces Gov. Jim Justice to move swiftly on a bill that eliminates the secretary’s position, and moves programs within the department to other[Read More…]
WVU Festival of Ideas to host a discussion on ‘Industries of the Future’ with Alec Ross
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…]
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…]
