The special session of the West Virginia Legislature to redraw the legislative and congressional boundaries was moving along relatively smoothly, at least as lawmaking goes. But then a curve ball — albeit unintended — came flying through the halls of the Capitol. That curve ball is a ...
MORGANTOWN -- Gov. Jim Justice held a brief COVID-19 press conference Friday morning, shortened to accommodate another press conference at noon to announce statewide funding for broadband. Justice read in another 110 COVID deaths in the state, 31 of which were part of the government’s ...
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 ...
CHARLESTON — House of Delegates Democratic leaders gathered Thursday morning to decry the governor's COVID-19 vaccine exemption bill, HB 335. “I'm concerned about the message our governor is sending,” Minority Leader Doug Skaff, D-Kanawha, said. On the one hand, Gov. Jim Justice says ...
By its very nature, the written word is not the best vehicle for a conversation. Texting has brought it as close to real-time dialogue as writing can get, but written words like these — the ones you are reading right now and that have occupied this space in the past — aren’t suited ...
KINGWOOD — Kingwood Council voted to put the old Herring building on its condemnation list. Only Dick Shaffer voted against the move. Since its construction in 1914, the historic Herring Building at 101 S. Price St. has seen many occupants and many changes. Now 107 years later, it has ...