CHARLESTON — Here is a look at some other House floor action from Friday. — SB 3033, the Congressional district bill. The House passed it Thursday and returned to it briefly Friday to change the effective date to make it effective from passage. — SB 3018, to transfer $250,000 in ...
MORGANTOWN -- Last spring, when Monongalia County Schools rolled out the first COVID vaccines for students 12-15 years of age, that event, in many ways, was like an emergency room waiting area — all at once. An emergency room waiting area that was quite full. Some 1,500 shots were ...
There was the little girl who broke into tears at school one day. She was convinced her grandmother, who was coughing and sniffling with a (medically diagnosed) cold was going to die of COVID, even though the matriarch had earlier tested negative for the contagion. And the little boy on ...
CHARLESTON – Gov. Jim Justice added a COVID-19 vaccine exemption bill to the special session call Wednesday that has generated opposition from the medical and business communities. The bill – HB 335 in the House, SB 3035 in the Senate – says an employer that requires vaccination for ...
These days, Eddie Campbell Jr. makes his living as superintendent of Monongalia County Schools. He was a high school principal before that. During Tuesday night’s meeting of the Mon Board of Education, he sounded every bit like one. That was when he reminded students that the ...
CHARLESTON – A bill tweaking county commission veto power over local health board rules generated extensive debate Tuesday over a proposal to also give county education boards veto power er school-related health orders. The bill is SB 3026 and is up for consideration as part of this ...
