MORGANTOWN — Republican gubernatorial candidate Rashida Yost made a campaign stop in Morgantown this week and talked to The Dominion Post about why she's running and what positions she's promoting. Yost said she knows she's not in the first tier of GOP name candidates: Moore Capito, J.B. ...
MORGANTOWN — City of Morgantown Finance Director Kevin Tennant had some good news for city council during its most recent regular session. About $1.1 million worth of good news to be specific. Tennant explained the finance department has been doing some spring cleaning, ...
Gov. Jim Justice, who declared a staffing emergency in West Virginia’s corrections system last August, repeated this week a statement suggesting futility in working with legislators to address the problem. “I twice have sent bills up in regard to locality pay for our corrections officers. We didn’t get it done,” Justice said during a broad-ranging briefing. The issue with corrections staffing continues to linger, with a vacancies level at 1,022, according to the most recent update to lawmakers. That’s a 27% vacancy rate for corrections workers across the jails ...
FAIRMONT — Rep. Alex Mooney stopped in town on Wednesday, during a visit to the new part of his expanded 1st District. The Dominion Post spent some time with him to talk about a few current issues and his campaign for U.S Senate. Mooney on Tuesday announced he's introduced the Protecting ...
U.S. Sens. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) and Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) reintroduced the Improving Mental Health Access from the Emergency Department Act, legislation to improve the way patients receive care for mental illness in emergency departments. The bipartisan bill would establish a competitive grant program for emergency departments to adopt more collaborative and connected mental health care models and deploy new technology to better connect patients with appropriate resources in their communities. “Millions of Americans are living with mental health issues and many turn ...
CHARLESTON — Gov. Jim Justice announced a campaign for United States Senate Thursday, introducing himself on the national stage, asking again for West Virginia votes and jumping into a race shaping up to be competitive from beginning to end. “I want to tell you tonight I’m officially announcing my candidacy for United States Senate, and I promise you I’ll do the job that will make you proud,” Justice said. His remarks emphasized tax cuts, anti-abortion policies and gun rights. “We’ve got real challenges in front of us, do we not?” Justice said in remarks ...
