MORGANTOWN — Monongalia County Commissioner Jeff Arnett said Wednesday the commission would request the county courthouse flag be flown at half-staff in honor of former commissioner Bill Bartolo. Arnett explained news of Bartolo’s death was recently shared by his family on social ...
CHARLESTON — Gov. Jim Justice visited the school where the Senate Education chair is a teacher to celebrate signing a bill meant to bolster educational resources for students in kindergarten through third grade. School children reacted in awe at the governor’s dog, who also attended the bill signing. Sen. Amy Nichole Grady, who teaches fourth grade, gave the young students a quick civics lesson in the governor’s role in signing bills passed by the Legislature. “I’m the biggest kid in the room,” Justice said at Leon Elementary in Mason County. The governor told ...
CHARLESTON — Gov. Jim Justice announced Monday that he has accepted the resignation of West Virginia State Police Superintendent Jan Cahill amid an investigation of the agency that seems primed to continue at multiple levels. The governor named an acting superintendent, Jack Chambers, and directed him to follow up on specific inquiries into state police actions. And the governor confirmed the West Virginia State Police agency is under federal scrutiny. “Today is surely one of those tough days,’ Justice said during an afternoon news conference. Cahill’s resignation ...
MORGANTOWN — Construction on the Mileground widening project is now expected to stretch through the majority of 2023. West Virginia Department of Transportation Spokesperson Jennifer Dooley confirmed Friday the work is currently on pace to be completed this fall or winter. The exact ...
CHARLESTON — Gov. Jim Justice acknowledged three inter-related bills with financial significance at a ceremonial signing of a budget bill, a bill making changes to the insurance program for public employees and a bill reflecting a pay raise for public employees. The governor described the pay raise and insurance bills — along with a broad-based tax bill — as trying to strike a balance. “We now have as close to a permanent fix to PEIA that we haven’t had in the past,” Justice said at Friday’s signing event. The pay raise legislation was described as an offset for ...
MORGANTOWN — Sen. Shelley Moore Capito talked with members of the West Virginia press on Thursday, covering the Biden budget, carbon sequestration, the Pleasants Power Station and Medicare. President Biden has proposed a $6.9 trillion budget paid for, in part, by $5.5 trillion in tax ...
