MORGANTOWN – Delegate Barbara Evans Fleischauer, D-Monongalia, will run for the state Senate in 2022, she announced Thursday. She will run to represent the 13th District, newly redrawn during the […]
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Clay Marsh: CDC likely to OK Pfizer vaccine for ages 5-11 next week
MORGANTOWN – COVID-19 czar Dr. Clay Marsh offered an update on Pfizer vaccines for kids during Friday’s COVID briefing from the governor’s office. Following the FDA’s approval of the vaccine […]
Local leaders promote green energy portion of Biden’s scaled-down Build Back Better framework
MORGANTOWN – As President Biden came before America Thursday morning to outline his scaled-down Build Back Better framework, some local delegates and other leaders had gathered at the WVU law […]
Coal Communities Workgroup sets Morgantown listening tour stop for Nov. 10
MORGANTOWN – The Morgantown stop for the House of Delegates Coal Communities Workgroup listening tour has a new date. The group will be at the Shack Neighborhood House in Pursglove […]
WVU Medicine, Mon Health change employee vaccine deadlines following Legislature’s passage of exemption bill
MORGANTOWN – In the wake of the vaccine exemption bill the state Legislature passed last week, and soon-expected vaccine mandates from OSHA and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, […]
Justice welcomes proposal from Maryland legislators for three counties to join West Virginia
MORGANTOWN – West Virginia could grow by three new counties if a request from several Maryland legislators comes to fruition. Gov. Jim Justice said during a Friday virtual announcement that […]
Vaccine exemption bill exempt from common sense
“Frankly, I think this hearkens back [to] Nazi Germany.” The above quote came from West Virginia Senate President Craig Blair, R-Berkeley, as he spoke in favor of the bill […]
Bills complete legislative journeys as special session ends; Evans comments on Senate president’s Nazi remarks
MORGANTOWN – The Senate redistricting bill and the House COVID-19 exemption bill completed their legislative journeys Wednesday evening. The Senate redistricting bill is SB 3034 and passed out of the […]
Senate GOP finally agrees on new district map; bill passes 31-2
CHARLESTON – After five days of haggling, Senate Republicans agreed on a Senate redistricting map on Tuesday. And the Senate minority found it reasonable enough, members said, to support it. […]
Senate passes vaccine exemption bill by just 1 vote; returns to House for agreement on an amendment
CHARLESTON – The Senate spent just over two hours debating the governor’s COVID-19 vaccine exemption bill, HB 335, and barely passed it with a 17-16 vote. HB 335 says an […]
