CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Secretary of Commerce Keith Burdette told the Joint Committee on Tax Reform Monday that it isn’t the state’s tax structure keeping businesses away. Instead, Burdette told the committee, companies that investigate the Mountain State for expansion or start-up find that lack of flat land is the biggest[Read More…]
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WVU, Marshall partner for three-year $1.5 million healthcare and research funding program
ROANOKE, W.Va. – West Virginia’s two largest universities are coming together to support collaborative research and healthcare projects addressing the Mountain State’s health issues. West Virginia University and Marshall University have each pledged $250,000 annually for a three-year combined effort to support innovative clinical projects and translational research that will ultimately[Read More…]
Morrisey announces back to school consumer protection week begins Monday
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Attorney General Patrick Morrisey yesterday announced his Office’s second Back to School Consumer Protection Week, a week-long series designed to raise awareness of consumer protection issues facing students, will begin Monday, Aug. 17. The West Virginia Attorney General’s Office will provide tips to help protect students’ personal information, as[Read More…]
Manchin applauds crucial funding to fight growing heroin threat in West Virginia
$2.5 million Heroin Response Strategy will address the heroin problem through public health-public safety partnerships Additional $400,000 will be used for a range of drug use prevention initiatives WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) yesterday applauded the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) for granting additional[Read More…]
Capito applauds funding for Appalachia high intensity drug trafficking areas
$2.5 million will fund the Heroin Response Strategy, an unprecedented partnership among five regional HIDTA programs to address the threat of heroin $400,000 will advance drug use prevention initiatives in West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) applauded yesterday’s announcement from the White[Read More…]
Oil and gas industries feeling regulatory pinch
An editorial from the Parkersburg News and Sentinel PARKERSBURG, W.Va. — Representatives of the oil and natural gas industries in West Virginia spoke last week to a group of reporters and editors gathered in Charleston. Their focus remained mostly on their own industries, but one thing tied them solidly to the[Read More…]
Jim Justice recruits Pruett, Nehlen as advocates
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — West Virginia billionaire and gubernatorial candidate Jim Justice has recruited two of the state’s most recognized sports figures to advocate for him in his campaign. Justice was at the Pullman Plaza Hotel in Huntington on Monday afternoon with former Marshall University football coach Bob Pruett, and former[Read More…]
Golden curls and bulging muscles
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — In the football movie “Remember The Titans” one of the quarterback characters was nicknamed “Sunshine”‘ because of his flowing locks of hair. That isn’t necessarily a good nickname to call Marshall University offensive linemen Sebastian Johansson and Jordan Dowrey. Call them that, and they might pummel you[Read More…]
Non-narcotic pain therapies could ease addiction epidemic
An editorial from The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — It is not difficult to see the impact of our region’s drug abuse epidemic. A record level of overdose deaths, babies born with opiate addictions, rising rates of hepatitis and other diseases top the list of direct health consequences. Meanwhile, addictions leave a[Read More…]
Sheetz picks Clarksburg pepperoni roll maker
CLARKSBURG, W.Va. — Sheetz has selected Home Industry Bakery of Clarksburg to supply pepperoni rolls to all of its West Virginia stores, according to a spokeswoman for the convenience store company. The exclusive partnership will begin Sept. 12. The local bakery expects to add at least five more employees to[Read More…]
