CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The CEO of the nation’s largest hospice care organization in the United States is the featured speaker Friday during the West Virginians for Affordable Health Care organization’s annual reception and fundraiser. Malene Smith Davis, president and CEO of Capital Caring, the first and largest hospice and palliative[Read More…]
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Press Conference: ‘Make Cents WV’ event Thursday in Charleston
Education leaders to launch new ‘Make Cents WV’ partnership to tackle financial literacy What: The West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission and the Education Alliance will launch a new initiative, “Make Cents WV,” to provide financial literacy tools and resources to students, families and educators. When: Thursday, December 8, 2016 at[Read More…]
Book tells story of time before and after Monongah mine disaster
By MICHELLE DILLON and KELSIE LEROSE Times West Virginian FAIRMONT, W.Va. — Today marks the anniversary of the deadliest mining disaster in United States history. An author has released a book set during and after the Monongah mine disaster. Judith Hoover has written “Beyond Monongah,” published by Archway Publishing. “Beyond Monongah” tells[Read More…]
Ryan Ferns Selected West Virginia Senate Majority Leader
By JOSELYN KING The Intelligencer/Wheeling News-Register WHEELING, W.Va. — Ryan Ferns has been tapped to be the West Virginia Senate’s next majority leader, and he hinted he may not be the only member of the Northern Panhandle delegation taking a leadership position when the Legislature convenes in January. Ferns, a[Read More…]
WV GOP: ACA repeal, rollback of EPA regulations start next month
By ANDREW BROWN Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia’s state and federal Republican leaders are ready to repeal health care and environmental regulations as the party nears takeover of the White House, Congress, the state Legislature and a majority of the statewide elected offices. At the top of the[Read More…]
Joint committee on education examines home-school extracurricular activities
By ANDREA LANNOM The Register-Herald CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Legislators listened to information Monday on whether students who do not attend public schools should be able to participate in extracurricular activities and what effect an educational savings account program would have on the state. Legislators from both chambers met Monday in[Read More…]
JobsOhio to Provide Funds for Cracker Site Remediation
By CASEY JUNKINS The Intelligencer/Wheeling News-Register DILLES BOTTOM, Ohio — More than $17 million worth of funds derived from Ohio liquor sales are being used to remediate the potential PTT Global Chemical ethane cracker site in Belmont County, officials with JobsOhio said. Today, JobsOhio officials announced a $14 million grant[Read More…]
Study shows more W.Va. students eating school breakfast
By MICHAEL ERB The Parkersburg News and Sentinel PARKERSBURG, W.Va. — A national study found participation in school breakfast programs increasing in West Virginia and Ohio. A study released Monday by the American Dairy Association Mideast said schools participating in the Fuel Up To Play 60 grant program in West[Read More…]
WVU players read to Trinity kids
The Dominion Post MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Some of Trinity Christian School’s younger students received some special visitors Dec. 5. Members of the WVU football team — Kyle Ayers, Logan Thimons, Druw Bowen and Reese Donahue — met with the school’s second-grade class. There, they had a read aloud with the[Read More…]
Tuesday, Dec. 6: 10 things to know
ASSOCIATED PRESS Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today: 1. WHERE TRUMP’S ‘THANK YOU’ TOUR IS HEADED NEXT The president-elect’s appearance in Fayetteville, North Carolina, will be followed by rallies in Iowa and Michigan later this week. 2. US LAWMAKERS[Read More…]