dbeard@dominionpost.com MORGANTOWN – The Legislature is plowing through bills as it heads to close of session midnight Saturday, but the Senate bill to require Holocaust education in the public schools […]
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CarePortal program to help families in need goes live in Mon County
dbeard@dominionpost.com MORGANTOWN – Department of Human Services Secretary Alex Mayer came to Morgantown on Thursday to join with Chad Clutter, director of Chestnut Mountain Village, social workers and members of […]
Senate passes bills limiting cell phones in schools, plowing roads in Mon and Preston
MORGANTOWN – The state Senate on Wednesday passed bills launching a pilot project to plow secondary roads in Monongalia and Preston counties, and to limit student cell phone use in […]
Senate passes House bill stripping some university board of governors members of voting rights
DBeard@DominionPost.com MORGANTOWN — A divided state Senate on Wednesday passed the House bill stripping the voting rights from certain members of university governing boards. The vote followed an unsuccessful effort […]
House passes amended Senate municipal elections bill and returns it to Senate
dbeard@dominionpost.com MORGANTOWN – The House of Delegates on Monday passed and sent back to the Senate the bill to align municipal election dates with statewide primary and general elections. The […]
Senate committee advances bill to remove voting power from 4 WVU BOG members
MORGANTOWN – The House bill that would strip the voting rights from the two faculty representatives, the classified staff representative and the student body representative on the WVU Board of […]
House amends Senate city elections bill to shorten time for municipalities to change their voting dates
MORGANTOWN – The House of Delegates on Friday adopted an amendment to the Senate’s bill to align municipal election dates with state dates – an amendment that will likely be […]
Senate committee adds third option to bill for schools to put guards on campus
dbeard@dominionpost.com MORGANTOWN – The Senate Finance Committee on Friday upped the ante on both chambers’ efforts to enable schools to put some form of security guards in their hallways. The […]
Hope Gas asks PSC to put its abandonment cases on hold
MORGANTOWN – Hope Gas has asked the state Public Service Commission to put on hold its proceedings to abandon its Red Lines pipeline system spanning 22 counties and convert its […]
Capito addresses job cuts at NIOSH, NETL during call with West Virginia reporters
dbeard@dominionpost.com MORGANTOWN – Sen. Shelley Moore Capito fielded some questions during her Thursday briefing with West Virginia reporters on this week’s job cuts at the Morgantown NIOSH office, and the […]
