By TRAVIS CRUM The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — After decades of dashed hopes and false starts, Marshall University plans to have a new baseball stadium in Huntington within two years. City and Marshall officials announced Thursday the completed purchase of the former Flint Group Pigments property, the future site of[Read More…]
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WVU researcher joins global tobacco control symposium
WVU Today MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — West Virginia University professor Linda Alexander has focused her work on populations that have not benefitted equally from efforts in tobacco control, including tobacco cessation, education and prevention. This week, she joins researchers from around the world for “Tobacco Control for All: Addressing Smoking Disparities for[Read More…]
West Virginia lawmakers speed up pace for campus carry bill
By ERIN BECK The Register-Herald CHARLESTON, W.Va. — With the end of the legislative session nearing, the West Virginia House of Delegates voted 51-47 not to send a campus carry bill to its Finance Committee for review Wednesday evening, instead bringing the bill to a vote of the entire House sometime[Read More…]
WV House votes down education omnibus bill, strike continues another day
By JAKE ZUCKERMAN and RYAN QUINN Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The West Virginia House of Delegates voted Tuesday to kill an omnibus education bill that would have provided a pay raise to teachers and school workers, but also would have opened the door to charter schools, education savings accounts[Read More…]
Walkout catches some Northern Panhandle school officials off guard
By JOSELYN KING The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register WHEELING, W.Va. — All public schools in the Northern Panhandle are closed today due to a statewide work stoppage by teachers and school service personnel that was called abruptly on Monday evening. Unions representing those workers made the move in response to[Read More…]
In the omnibus shadow: West Virginia lawmakers’ other education bills
By RYAN QUINN Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The education overhaul bill (Senate Bill 451) isn’t the only education legislation that’s been moving through the Legislature, though you could be forgiven for thinking so. The sweeping bill, which contains many provisions that, in the past, would have run as multiple[Read More…]
West Virginia House of Delegates passes drastically different education bill
By ERIN BECK The Register-Herald CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The West Virginia House of Delegates passed an education reform bill Thursday, but a vastly different version of what the state Senate had sent them. The new version of the bill contains provisions for just two charter schools in the state, but[Read More…]
U.S. Fourth Circuit judges to hear arguments at WVU College of Law
WVU Today MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — A panel of judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit will convene at the West Virginia University College of Law Feb. 19. The judges will hear arguments in three cases beginning at 9 a.m. and the public is invited to attend.[Read More…]
