FAIRMONT – TMC Technologies of Fairmont is playing a key role in NASA’s development of its first all-electric experimental airplane, the X-57 Maxwell. TMC Senior Systems Engineer […]
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WVU President Gee visits The Dominion Post to talk about Ascend WV, revitalizing West Virginia
MORGANTOWN – WVU President Gordon Gee visited The Dominion Post this week to talk about WVU and expand on the Ascend WV initiative announced earlier this month. […]
Justice rolls out ‘Beat 588 … Bad’ program to convince the vaccine avoiders to get vaccinated
MORGANTOWN — “Beat 588 … Bad” has transformed from a slogan jotted on a piece of notebook paper Wednesday to a full-blown program to try to get […]
Capito explains GOP infrastructure plan on the table; $568B compared to Biden’s $2.3T American Jobs Plan
MORGANTOWN – Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., joined with four other leading GOP senators Thursday to unveil their trimmed-down counter proposal to President Biden’s $2.3 trillion American […]
Manchin tells WV press he favors infrastructure bill targeting actual infrastructure, not $2.3T Biden plan
MORGANTOWN – Sen. Joe Manchin doesn’t favor passing the entire $2.3 trillion American Jobs Plan proposed by President Biden, he told members of the West Virginia press […]
‘Beat 588 bad’: Justice wants to convince vaccine holdouts to get theirs so the masks can come off
MORGANTOWN — A Wednesday COVID-19 briefing abuzz with numbers yielded a new slogan from Gov. Jim Justice: “Beat 588 bad.” That’s a number floated by a reporter […]
Mon County, Morgantown-Fairmont among nation’s cleanest for air pollution in American Lung Association 2021 report
MORGANTOWN – The Morgantown-Fairmont Metropolitan Statistical Area ranks among the nation’s cleanest cities for ozone and short-term particle air pollution in American Lung Association’s 2021 State of […]
Joe Manchin, Cecil Roberts talk clean coal, coal jobs with National Press Club
MORGANTOWN – Sen Joe Manchin and United Mine Workers of America President Cecil Roberts teamed up on Monday to promote coal jobs and clean coal technology. They […]
Justice to sign executive order lifting many of his 91 pandemic orders; mask mandate to remain in place
MORGANTOWN — Gov. Jim Justice announced Monday that he’s issuing a new executive order undoing many of the previous 91 he issued since March 2020 to respond […]
How the needle exchange bill diverges from CDC guidance, and what needle exchanges can accomplish
MORGANTOWN — The CDC offers an abundance of resources and guidance for syringe service programs — SSPs, or needle exchanges. Many elements of SB 334, which the […]