From The Hampshire Review LUKE, Md. — Work will stop at the Verso paper mill here a month earlier than announced on April 30. The 675 employees will be paid through June 30, but workers were notified today that production is ending May 31 — 3 weeks from today. “The mill will[Read More…]
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‘Women Owning Woodlands’ workshop comes to West Virginia for first time
From the W.Va. Division of Foresty: CHARLESTON, W. Va. — A Women Owning Woodlands (WOW) workshop will be held for the first time in West Virginia. The WOW weekend workshop is scheduled for May 31 – June 2 in Watoga State Park and Calvin Price State Forest in Pocahontas County.[Read More…]
Editorial: Schedule shows what we already know about W.Va. Governor Justice
From The Charleston Gazette-Mail: Through dogged and commendable persistence, the Associated Press last week obtained copies of activity schedules for Gov. Jim Justice. Going over seven months of scheduling, the AP reported the records show the governor “almost never meets with his Cabinet, is rarely at the Capitol and was[Read More…]
Southern W.Va. residents learn details of $60M King Coal Highway project
By GREG JORDAN, Bluefield Daily Telegraph BLUE FIELD, W.Va. — Residents of a Mercer County roadway that’s in the path a future King Coal Highway extension learned more Monday about road closures, alternative routes, heavy equipment and some blasting they can expect during the coming months. Representatives of the project’s[Read More…]
‘One acre at a time’ program aims to help promote ecosystem diversity and health
By Matt Combs, The Register-Herald BECKLEY, W.Va. — When people cannot see the bigger picture because they are too concerned over the details, there is a saying that they “cannot see the forest for the trees.” In West Virginia, environmentally speaking, perhaps the phrase should be reversed to “cannot see the trees[Read More…]
Editorial: W.Va. Attorney General Morrisey deserves credit for pain pill settlement
It is a measure of the ultra-politicized times in which we live that West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey is being criticized by some for his handling of a lawsuit settlement for a whopping $37 million. Could the state have collected more from drug distributor the McKesson Corp.? Maybe. Maybe[Read More…]
Editorial: Will Manchin enter W.Va. gubernational race?
From The Bluefield Daily Telegraph: Will he or won’t he? It is one of the biggest questions swirling around West Virginia politics at the moment. Joe Manchin, a Democrat who was just re-elected to a second term in the U.S. Senate last year, has been openly talking in recent weeks about[Read More…]
Editorial: Government derelict in aiding people hurt by disasters
From The Herald-Dispatch of Huntington: Even in these increasingly partisan times, it wasn’t so long ago that Republicans and Democrats could at least agree on matters that involved relief funding for areas hit hard by disasters. But even that has become a slog in the past few years. That’s illustrated[Read More…]
W.Va. Attorney General announces lawsuit against generic drug companies, executives; Mylan among defendants
From WVNews.com CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey announced that his office has filed a lawsuit alleging some of the nation’s largest generic drug makers, 20 manufacturers in all, engaged in a broad scheme to artificially inflate and manipulate prices, reduce competition and unreasonably restrain trade for[Read More…]
