By STEVEN ALLEN ADAMS The Parkersburg News and Sentinel CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A tweet Tuesday by the president of the West Virginia Senate was a topic for two teachers’ union representatives during a PEIA Taskforce subcommittee meeting Wednesday morning. The Public Outreach Subcommittee met Wednesday at the state Capitol Building.[Read More…]
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West Virginia second quarter severance totals a mixed bag
By MATT COMBS The Register-Herald BECKLEY, W.Va. — Coal severance numbers from the second quarter of this year were released on Wednesday, and while the state saw numbers jump when compared to the first quarter, numbers are down slightly, approximately 3.33 percent statewide when compared to last year’s second quarter.[Read More…]
Book your rooms at Embassy Suites today for WVPA Convention 2018
WVPA room discount at Embassy Suites is a limited time offer CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Registration is now open for the West Virginia Press Association’s 2018 WVPA Convention, Aug. 9-11, in Charleston. “The WVPA is partnering with WVU’s Academic Media Day program. It’s an excellent opportunity for all media,’ said Don Smith,[Read More…]
Marshall University professor’s Clio app featured as a top humanities project in US
By TAYLOR STUCK The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — A mobile app developed and run by a Marshall University professor and his students is being touted as the gold standard for what collegiate humanities projects should be by the National Humanities Alliance. The Clio app picks up a user’s location anywhere[Read More…]
West Virginia health care providers enlisted to spot human trafficking
By BISHOP NASH The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Human trafficking is not a matter tucked out of sight in developing nations. It’s driven past on the streets of Huntington each day and found even in the most far-flung hollows of outlying West Virginia. Second only to drug trafficking as the[Read More…]
West Virginia Interstate Fair and Exposition continues through Saturday
The Parkersburg News and Sentinel MINERAL WELLS, W.Va. — If the next three days of the West Virginia Interstate Fair and Exposition are like the first two, organizers say it will be a good year for the fair, in its 46th year. Russ Collins, vice president of the West Virginia[Read More…]
WVU opens new research facility to extract valuable rare earths from acid mine drainage
WVU Today MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — West Virginia University researchers are opening a new facility to capture valuable materials from a novel source – acid mine drainage from coal mining – turning the unwanted waste into critical components used in today’s technology-driven society. Through a collaborative research and development program with the[Read More…]
Annual Alzheimer’s and Dementia University for Families and Professionals to teach about diseases
By EDDIE TRIZZINO Times West Virginian MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – J.T. Hunter’s mother worked for the Alzheimer’s Association from the time he was a child. He didn’t know what kind of work she was doing, but would later experience the disease first-hand, when his grandmother began developing symptoms. “I was in college[Read More…]
Chief Logan State Park debuts four-bedroom luxury cabins
By RICK STEELHAMMER Charleston Gazette-Mail LOGAN, W.Va. — While the cozy log cabins built by Civilian Conservation Corps workers at a number of West Virginia state parks in the 1930s and early ‘40s have their woodsy charm and remain popular, they are a far cry from the latest version of[Read More…]
