MORGANTOWN – The campus carry bill is on its way to the House floor and expected to pass there after clearing House Judiciary in a voice vote on Wednesday afternoon. SB 10, the Campus Self Defense Act, sets the parameters for people with concealed handgun permits to carry on public ...
MORGANTOWN — The House Judiciary Committee's Wednesday morning public hearing on the campus carry bill drew 40 people; 38 of whom opposed it. Most of the opponents to SB 10 were university students, faculty and administrators. Mary Ellen O'Farrell, speaking on her own behalf, summed ...
MORGANTOWN — A group of WVU students gathered in front of the Mountainlair on Monday to voice their concerns about the campus carry bill — SB 10 — working its way through the Legislature. “We feel very strongly this would be a threat to student safety,” said Keeley Wildman, a ...
OLLI offers wonderful learning opportunities I loved my 35-year career teaching theater design and history at WVU. I retired in 2013. In 2006, a friend in the English department suggested I teach a class for OLLI (Osher Lifelong Learning Institute) at WVU. I put together a six-week ...
Good: HB 2774, the “Welcome Home Grant Program.” The pilot program will offer cash grants (up to $5,000) to help veterans and their families relocate to West Virginia on the condition they stay for three years. To us, this bill is a “good, but …” Veterans are an odd group in that ...
MORGANTOWN — The campus carry bill sailed through the Senate on Tuesday, with just one Republican joining the three Democrats to oppose it. SB 10, the Campus Self Defense Act, now heads to the House where passage is expected, since a similar bill passed there in 2019 by a 59-41 vote — ...