By MATT HARVEY The Exponent Telegram WASHINGTON — A total of $4.8 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation has been set aside to repair federal roads in Pocahontas, Randolph and Greenbrier counties damaged during the 2016 floods. News of the funding came from the offices of U.S. Sens.[Read More…]
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Parkways head gives update on traffic and revenue study, implementation of single-rate EZ Pass
By ANDREA LANNOM The Register-Herald CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The head of the West Virginia Parkways Authority said he anticipates completion of a traffic and revenue study to happen around January. Gregg Barr, general manager of the West Virginia Parkways Authority, updated legislators in Sunday’s Joint Legislative Oversight Commission on Department[Read More…]
Region VI Thursday meeting with Sec. Thrasher cancelled
Staff report The Exponent Telegram WHITE HALL, W.Va. — The Region VI Planning and Development Council special board meeting with Secretary of Commerce Woody Thrasher has been canceled. The session was originally scheduled with the full board of directors at 5:30 p.m. Thursday to discuss consolidation of regional councils. No[Read More…]
Elkins holds 1 percent sales tax plan event
By BRAD JOHNSON The Inter-Mountain ELKINS, W.Va. — Dozens of residents braved the rain Monday evening to attend the city of Elkins’ “1 Percent Sales Tax Public Event” at the Elkins-Randolph County YMCA. Elkins City Council approved on its first of three required readings Nov. 2 a proposed ordinance that[Read More…]
10 things to know: Tuesday, November 14
The regional bureau of The Associated Press, shares 10 things you need to know Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017. Look for full stories on these late-breaking news items and much more in West Virginia newspapers. 1. WHO MESSAGED WITH WIKILEAKS DURING 2016 CAMPAIGN In the exchanges, which Donald Trump Jr. released[Read More…]
Gov. Justice, Secretary Thrasher host press conference on China Energy $83.7 billion investment deal for WV
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Gov. Jim Justice and WV Commerce Secretary Woody Thrasher hosted a press conference for Monday, Nov. 13, at 11:30 a.m. in the Governor’s Reception Room at the State Capitol to provide more details on Thursday’s announcement that West Virginia has entered into an agreement with China Energy Investment Corporation on $83.7 billion in[Read More…]
U.S. ethane will go to China; deal would export 2.6. million metric tons per year
By CASEY JUNKINS The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register WHEELING, W.Va. — At the same time President Donald Trump witnessed the signing of West Virginia’s $83.7 billion deal with China Energy for petrochemical plants in the Mountain State, he also witnessed another deal to export 2.6 million metric tons of ethane[Read More…]
West Virginia legislators, industry leaders digesting shale seal
By CASEY JUNKINS The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register WHEELING, W.Va. — From how petrochemical plants will impact the environment to whether drillers should get access to minerals even if they cannot obtain a lease for them, the $83.7 billion Chinese shale natural gas development deal gives members of the West[Read More…]
Chinese investment could begin to pay off within a year, Thrasher: ‘”We’re going full steam ahead, immediately’
By RUSTY MARKS The State Journal CHARLESTON, W.Va. — After news broke that state officials had brokered an $83.7 billion deal with China Energy Investment Corporation to invest in West Virginia’s shale gas and chemical industries, one of the first questions to come up was how soon the Mountain State[Read More…]
Morrisey opinion allows for anonymously published campaign materials in WV
By JAKE ZUCKERMAN Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The West Virginia attorney general issued an advisory opinion last month that could hold the door open for political groups seeking to publish campaign material anonymously. Citing precedent from the U.S. Supreme Court, namely McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission, Patrick Morrisey said[Read More…]