BECKLEY, W.Va. — While state lawmakers are preparing for the upcoming legislative session and the agenda bills they plan to pass, other groups in the state are already playing defense — preparing for opposition to those core bills. One of those is forced pooling. Forced pooling would compel mineral rights[Read More…]
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The Associated Press shares 10 things to know Tuesday, Dec. 29
Dorothy Abernathy, regional media director of The Associated Press, shares 10 things you need to know Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2015. Look for full stories on these late-breaking news items and much more in West Virginia newspapers. 1. CLEVELAND OFFICIALS URGE CALM The city braces for protests after a grand jury[Read More…]
Gas drillers expect decline to continue in 2016
WHEELING, W.Va. — As 2014 closed, Ohio and West Virginia featured 77 active rigs drilling into the Marcellus and Utica shales. One year later, there are only 30 working rigs between the two states, while natural gas prices are about $1 less per 1,000 cubic feet than last December. And[Read More…]
Marketing wonderful, wild West Virginia
A column by Mike Myer, executive editor of The Intelligencer/Wheeling News-Register WHEELING, W.Va. — Occasionally, I can hear coyotes howling from the woods near my home. As I’ve written before, that’s a mixed blessing – no one likes the idea of a pet in the backyard being attacked by a[Read More…]
Marshall’s Johnson received his Christmas gift
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – Marshall University running back Devon Johnson wanted one last Christmas gift wrapped in green. Johnson missed most of the season because of an unspecified injury and wanted one more chance to take the field with his Marshall football teammates and one last opportunity to play for[Read More…]
Linking food stamps, job training is a good step
An editorial from The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — The size of the food stamp program doubled in the wake of the Great Recession. About 26 million people were receiving benefits through the Supplemental Nutrition Program (SNAP) in 2007, and by 2013 the total was 47.6 million. The number of recipients has[Read More…]
WVU sells a third of its tickets for bowl game
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — WVU has sold about a third of its tickets and officials expect a small — but loud — group of Mountaineers fans at the Motel 6 Cactus Bowl. Associate Athletic Director for External Affairs Matt Wells said WVU has sold — or taken for its own usage[Read More…]
Number of WV cities with sales tax approaching 18
CLARKSBURG, W.Va. — Like it or not, shoppers will likely be paying 7 percent in sales taxes on their purchases no matter where they go in West Virginia. Eighteen municipalities in the state’s home rule pilot program have either enacted a 1 percent sales tax or plan to do so,[Read More…]
Central WV pipeline complete and pumping gas
CLARKSBURG, W.Va. — An extra 700 million cubic feet of natural gas is now being pumped each day from North Central West Virginia thanks to the recent completion of the Stonewall Gas Gathering Pipeline. That pipeline will carry up to 1.4 billion cubic feet of gas daily once fully operational,[Read More…]
Clarksburg paper names biometrics center project of year
CLARKSBURG, W.Va. — When the FBI moved its fingerprint division to Clarksburg in 1995, prints were on index cards stored in thousands of cabinets. Twenty years later, over 100 million fingerprints are stored on a computer database, and employees of the Criminal Justice Information Services Division can make a match[Read More…]
