CHARLESTON — College students from West Virginia and Marshall universities testified about experiences with food insecurity in support of a bill called the “Hunger Free Campus Act,” […]
Author: Brad McElhinny, WVMetroNews.com
‘Crime in parking lot is crime in building’
CHARLESTON — The full House of Delegates will consider opening up public and school libraries to felony charges for the display or dissemination of obscene material to […]
Amendment to broaden Women’s Bill of Rights mostly whittled away
CHARLESTON — The Women’s Bill of Rights, as introduced at the West Virginia Legislature, would codify the definitions of “man” and “woman” while assuring availability of single-sex […]
Manchin frustrated over blocked border bill
CHARLESTON — Sen. Joe Manchin says he is incredibly discouraged over the failure of a border security package that had been negotiated by a bipartisan group of […]
Women’s Bill of Rights’ has ‘absolutely nothing to do with women’
CHARLESTON — In a public hearing about legislation called “The Women’s Bill of Rights,” most speakers said the bill does nothing of the sort and, instead, is […]
Justice asks for less focus on debts during campaign
CHARLESTON — With an auction of the Greenbrier Sporting Club announced to satisfy a portion of $300 million debt to his longtime lender, Gov. Jim Justice says […]
Delegates debate how community air monitoring may be used, pass bill
CHARLESTON — After debate that has flared up almost daily, the House of Delegates passed a bill that would define standards for community programs to monitor and […]
Greenbrier Sporting Club lots to be sold at auction
CHARLESTON — A Virginia bank has placed official notice to auction lots at The Greenbrier Sporting Club to satisfy a multi-million dollar debt from Gov. Jim Justice […]
Republican candidates for governor face off in debate
DANIELS — Four guys vying to be West Virginia’s next governor fired verbal shots at each other, declared themselves to be the most effective conservative and offered […]
Homeland Security official conducting unannounced inspections of W.Va. jails
As concern about conditions in West Virginia’s jails has festered, the state’s new inspector general for Homeland Security has started unannounced visits to facilities, spending long days […]