MORGANTOWN -- Monongalia County Health Department Chief Financial Officer Devan Smith was prepared to come into Thursday morning’s board of health meeting and report MCHD was so-far unscathed by the upheaval in federal funding initiated by the Trump administration. Then, on Tuesday, ...
A former official within the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) is facing federal charges after investigators say he lied to federal agents and before a federal grand jury about signing off on millions of dollars in COVID-19 testing supplies that were not properly ...
Originally meant to be told in three parts, the DSF Stop saga ended up being a seven-installment series examining how the outreach organization may or may not have misspent federal COVID grants in its quest to get north-central West Virginia’s Black population vaccinated against ...
by Jonathan Bernstein Congress still hasn’t approved supplemental funding for COVID-19 vaccines, booster shots, treatments, tests and scientific work in a bill it’s been sitting on for months. Democrats have the tools to make it happen, but they aren’t using them, and I don’t ...