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Blue Ridge CTC officials laud West Virginia Invests
By MICHAEL NEARY The Journal MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Officials at Blue Ridge Community and Technical College lauded the West Virginia Invests Grant Program and the effect it may have on the college and its students during Wednesday’s Board of Governors meeting at Blue Ridge CTC. The program, approved by the[Read More…]
Kanawha delegate announces West Virginia Senate run
By STEVEN ALLEN ADAMS The Parkersburg News and Sentinel CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The first in what is expected to be several Republican candidates announced his intention to run for the West Virginia Senate. Eric Nelson, a Republican representing the 35th District in the House of Delegates, announced his 2020 candidacy[Read More…]
West Virginia state school board member ‘perplexed’ by non-finance-focused ‘finance’ subcommittee
By RYAN QUINN Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Debra Sullivan told her fellow West Virginia Board of Education members Wednesday that she was perplexed, a word she repeated, alarmed and concerned about a state school board “finance” committee suddenly adding lawmakers as members and discussing non-finance-related topics. “I was perplexed and[Read More…]
The Health Plan, WVU Medicine to form new, fully-integrated health-care network
By CONOR GRIFFITH NCWV Media WHEELING, W.Va. — WVU Medicine and the Wheeling-based not-for-profit corporation The Health Plan have officially merged and in the process created the Mountain State’s first fully-integrated health-care system in which hospitals and health insurance providers are on the same page. The announcement was made Tuesday[Read More…]
The Health Plan to stay in Wheeling
By LINDA COMINS The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register WHEELING, W.Va. — The Health Plan’s headquarters will remain in Wheeling with employment at current, or higher, levels under a new partnership with West Virginia University Health System. Officials of The Health Plan and the university’s health system, which operates as WVU[Read More…]
WV education dept. releases report on special session forums, surveys
By RYAN QUINN Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The West Virginia Department of Education released Tuesday its report on the eight forums it held across the state and the surveys it collected regarding the upcoming special legislative session on education. The report, which strongly recommends not creating non-public school vouchers,[Read More…]
West Virginia and 42 other states to FCC: Regulate robocalls
The Parkersburg News and Sentinel CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The state of West Virginia has joined 42 other states in urging the Federal Communications Commission to take further action to stop the proliferation of illegal robocalls and spoofing. The coalition of attorneys general recently delivered formal comments urging the FCC to[Read More…]
WVU researcher: HIV epidemic partially fueled by national opioid crisis
WVU Today MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Infectious diseases expert Sally Hodder, director of the West Virginia Clinical and Translational Science Institute and associate vice president for clinical and translational science at West Virginia University, was part of a national team that published “AIDS in America – Back in the Headlines at Long Last,” a[Read More…]