By RYAN QUINN Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A day after announcing his appointment of West Virginia Board of Education member Bill White to a new role, Gov. Jim Justice announced Tuesday that he’d be filling White’s seat and two other state school board seats with former longtime county school system[Read More…]
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Gayle Manchin fires 4 employees as new department
By PHIL KABLER Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Gayle Manchin, West Virginia’s new secretary of the Department of Education and the Arts, has fired one-third of the department’s central office staff in a sweeping reorganization. Missy Phalen, executive assistant to Manchin, confirmed Monday that the terminated employees are: Brent Sansom,[Read More…]
Officials unsure how ACA exec order will affect W.Va.
By MICHAEL ERB The Parkersburg News and Sentinel CHARLESTON, W.Va. — State leaders and insurance providers are as yet unsure what President Donald Trump’s executive order on the federal Affordable Care Act might mean for West Virginia. On Friday, Trump signed an executive order giving agencies leeway in enforcing some[Read More…]
Three picked to potentially fill vacant Second District West Virginia Senate Seat
By JOSELYN KING The Intelligencer/Wheeling News-Register MOUNDSVILLE, W.Va. — The names of three prospective candidates who could be the next member of the West Virginia Senate representing the 2nd District are on their way to Gov. Jim Justice. A total of 12 candidates submitted letters of interest to fill out[Read More…]
Opioid alternative linked to spike in WV overdose deaths
By ERIC EYRE Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A drug being touted as a safer alternative for treating pain than more powerful prescription opioids is contributing to an increasing number of overdose deaths in West Virginia. The number of fatal overdoses related to the nerve-pain drug gabapentin — sold by[Read More…]
Resolution is seeking to stop Stream Buffer Zone
By ANDREA LANNOM The Register-Herald BECKLEY, W.Va. — Congressman Evan Jenkins said Thursday that Congress should immediately act to stop the the Stream Buffer Zone Rule. Jenkins introduced a joint resolution of congressional disapproval to stop the rule, which was set to go into effect Thursday, from going forward. The resolution requires a simple[Read More…]
State budget forecast worst since great depression
By ANDREA LANNOM The Register-Herald CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Economists in Gov. Jim Justice’s office are forecasting that West Virginia’s budgetary indicators are the worst since the Great Depression, Justice’s chief of staff said Wednesday. Nick Case said for the 2018 fiscal year, West Virginia will have to reduce its budget[Read More…]
MLK Day celebrated in Charleston
Staff reports Charleston Gazette-Mail Residents came together Monday to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day in Charleston. Local festivities began with a packed service at Asbury United Methodist Church in the morning, when David M. Fryson delivered the keynote address. Fryson is West Virginia University’s vice president for the Division[Read More…]
Herald-Dispatch celebrates turning 108 today
The Herald-Dispatch The Herald-Dispatch celebrates its 108th anniversary today. The Herald-Dispatch’s roots go back to 1871 when O.G. Chase arrived in the Huntington area on a riverboat. Supplied with printing equipment, he eventually acquired a lot on Second Avenue between 8th and 9th streets, where he maintained an office for[Read More…]
ACA repeal may affect black lung patients, families
By LORI KERSEY Charleston Gazette-Mail BECKLEY, W.Va. — Despite the disease that left him disabled, Gary Hairston looks back fondly on his time as a coal miner. “If I could be, I would be in there right now,” the 62-year-old Beckley resident said. Hairston had been a coal miner more[Read More…]
