By PHIL KABLER Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Legislation that would allow West Virginia’s four racetrack casinos to operate satellite locations advanced to the full House of Delegates on Tuesday. Although primarily intended to allow Wheeling Island Casino to put a satellite location in a retail-shopping complex adjacent to Interstate[Read More…]
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Justice to West Virginia Legislature: Send clean pay raise bill
By STEVEN ALLEN ADAMS The Parkersburg News and Sentinel CHARLESTON, W.Va. — After the defeat of the West Virginia Senate’s education reform package, Gov. Jim Justice asked lawmakers to quit sitting on his pay raise bill for teachers and school service personnel. Justice held a press conference Tuesday afternoon hours[Read More…]
10 things to know: Wednesday, February 20
The regional bureau of The Associated Press, shares 10 things you need to know Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2019. Look for full stories on these late-breaking news items and much more in West Virginia newspapers. 1. POSSIBLE PEACE DECLARATION LOOMS OVER KIM-TRUMP SUMMIT Such an announcement ending the six-decade-old Korean War[Read More…]
Senate President Carmichael statement on House of Delegates Action on Senate Bill 451
CHARLESTON, W.VA. — W.VA. Senate President Mitch Carmichael, R-Jackson, issued the following statement on the House of Delegates action of on SB 451. On Tuesday, the House vote to postpone the bill indefinitely: “Today’s action by the House of Delegates on comprehensive education reform is a delay, not a defeat. There is[Read More…]
W.Va. Senate Natural Resources Committee passes hunting licenses organ donation bill
By Erica Young West Virginia Press Association Capitol Reporter CHARLESTON, W.VA — The West Virginia Senate Natural Resources Committee voted unanimously Monday to report SB 613 to the full Senate with the recommendation of passage. This bill would require the Department of Natural Resources to include the election of organ[Read More…]
West Virginia teacher strike now underway
Staff reports The Register-Herald OAK HILL, W.Va. — West Virginia teachers and school employees are on strike today in opposition of the omnibus education bill. In an interview Monday, Tega Toney, an Oak Hill High School teacher, president of AFT-Fayette County and vice president of AFT-West Virginia, said main sticking[Read More…]
On eve of strike, West Virginia Senate votes to return ESAs, charter schools to omnibus
By JAKE ZUCKERMAN Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Within minutes of the announcement of a statewide teacher and school service personnel strike, the West Virginia Senate barreled forward with legislation enabling education savings accounts, charter schools and other union-abhorred pieces of conservative education policy. Within about two hours of the[Read More…]
Walkout catches some Northern Panhandle school officials off guard
By JOSELYN KING The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register WHEELING, W.Va. — All public schools in the Northern Panhandle are closed today due to a statewide work stoppage by teachers and school service personnel that was called abruptly on Monday evening. Unions representing those workers made the move in response to[Read More…]
4th Circuit hearing on Atlantic Coast Pipeline not expected until May
By CHARLES YOUNG NCWV Media CLARKSBURG, W.Va. — A hearing that could impact the future of Dominion’s Atlantic Coast Pipeline project has been pushed back at least two months, according to a spokesman. Karl Neddenien, ACP spokesman, said the postponement involves oral arguments in the company’s appeal of a U.S.[Read More…]
WVU professor helps military families ‘navigate life outside the gate’
WVU Today MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — With 1.3 million active duty military personnel nationwide, coordinating and finding accessible healthcare and social services for their 1.7 million family members is a major challenge. Christopher Plein, the Eberly Family Professor for Outstanding Service at West Virginia University, is working to address these challenges[Read More…]