By JAKE JARVIS NCWV Media CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Senate President Mitch Carmichael, R-Jackson, said West Virginia teachers on strike have been “disrespectful” to the legislative process, and they should go back to work. That came Monday after a small group of teachers in the Senate gallery loudly shamed Republican senators[Read More…]
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Northern Panhandle teachers say they face mountains of college loan debt
By CASEY JUNKINS The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register WHEELING, W.Va. — Now in her fourth year as a special education teacher in Brooke County, Ashleigh Gurskey said she still faces about $50,000 worth of student loan debt — and estimates that a planned 2 percent pay raise will cover about[Read More…]
Fairmont Senior High School students join picket lines alongside their teachers
By EDDIE TRIZZINO Times West Virginian FAIRMONT, W.Va. – Seeing teachers throughout the state fighting for better rights as public workers is problematic for Anna Runyan in more ways than one. The Fairmont Senior High School (FSHS) senior has been out of class along with the rest of the state’s[Read More…]
Justice tells school workers to end walkout; proposes natural gas special session to fund PEIA
By PHIL KABLER Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Telling public school employees it is in their best interest to end the three-day walkout and return to their schools, Gov. Jim Justice on Monday proposed leveraging the natural gas industry’s desire for co-tenancy/joint development legislation to include an increase in severance[Read More…]
Officials in West Virginia’s natural gas industry say passage of house bill is vital
By FRED PACE The Herald-Dispatch CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Officials with the Independent Oil & Gas Association of West Virginia say passage of a co-tenancy bill currently before the West Virginia Legislature is vital to the industry’s success in the state; however, Monday, Gov. Jim Justice said he wants the bill to[Read More…]
Wood County dodges storm flooding
By JESS MANCINI The Parkersburg News and Sentinel PARKERSBURG, W.Va. — Operations have returned to normal at the 911 Center in Wood County where officials were on heightened alert because of flooding forecasted on the Ohio River. The forecasted levels, in the major flooding category, didn’t come because the storm[Read More…]
West Virginia Eastern Panhandle community leaders look to break opioid cycle
By JIM McCONVILLE The Journal CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. — Addiction is now being passed from one generation to the next, according to a panel of local community, legal and health experts. Gail Boober, a magistrate for the Jefferson County Magistrate Court for 32 years, said she’s seen substance abuse carry[Read More…]
Remembering Buffalo Creek 46 years later
By BILL LUSK The Logan Banner Gallery: The Buffalo Creek Flood MAN, W.Va. — Monday marked the 46th anniversary of the Buffalo Creek Flood. February 26, 1972, at approximately 8 a.m., a coal slurry impoundment dam owned by Pittston Coal Company burst, releasing 132 million gallons of water, coal refuse and silt[Read More…]
West Virginia University’s libraries to host exhibit, Heroin(e) screening for Women’s History Month
WVU Today MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — As part of Women’s History Month, West Virginia University Libraries will showcase the work of Peabody Award-winning documentarian Elaine McMillion Sheldon and three other West Virginia-based photographers. West Virginia native and WVU alumna Sheldon (BSJ, 2009) will screen her most recent film, the Oscar-nominated “Heroin(e)”, March[Read More…]
