MORGANTOWN – Delegate Danielle Walker, D-Monongalia, will step down from her House seat and her role as vice chair of the state Democratic Party to take a new job as executive director of the ACLU of West Virginia. Walker, of Morgantown, will start her new job April 17, according to an ...
As part of a movement to help enliven local theaters post-COVID, Nassim Soleimanpour’s unique play, “White Rabbit Red Rabbit” hit 75 small stages around the world on Monday. The production, written by Soleimanpour while exiled in Iran, features no director, no rehearsals and a ...
CHARLESTON — Delegates are advancing bills for public schools to display “In God We Trust” signs, allowing more leeway for student athletes to transfer and providing more support in early grade classrooms. The House Education Committee considered and moved each of those bills on ...
Delegates debated over an amendment that would have prevented removing students from public schools to home-school environments if there is a pending child abuse or neglect investigation. The amendment also would have applied in cases where the parent or a home-school teacher has been ...
MORGANTOWN — The Campus Self Defense Act — known widely as the campus carry bill — is on its way to the governor’s office. The House of Delegates spent about 90 minutes Tuesday debating the Senate’s bill before passing it, 84-13. With no House amendments, SB 10 now heads to ...
After more than an hour of debate, West Virginia delegates passed a bill that would ban aspects of gender affirming care for minors. House Bill 2007 was passed 84-10 with six members absent. The bill now goes to the state Senate for consideration. “Even if the surgeries aren’t ...