CHARLESTON – After sitting through a couple hours of budget presentations, the Senate Finance Committee zipped through a handful of bills that had passed out of the […]
Author: David Beard, The Dominion Post
Gov. Justice explains Jim’s Dream, unveils opioid disposal program for Charleston area
CHARLESTON – Gov. Jim Justice shed more light on his Jim’s Dream drug abuse program and unveiled a Charleston-area program to keep unused opioids out of the […]
Local legislators and others react to State of the State Address
CHARLESTON – Local legislators and a number of others offered their reactions to Gov. Jim Justice’s State of the State Address Wednesday evening. Here’s a look. House […]
A sampling of bills introduced on Day 1 of the session
CHARLESTON – Here is a sampling of bills introduced Jan. 9. Monongalia-Preston-Marion-area lead sponsors and co-sponsors, if any, are noted. SB 1, Increasing access to career education […]
State Senate opens 2019 session with cordial formalities; president calls for bipartisan cooperation
CHARLESTON – The contentious debates will begin soon enough. Wednesday was a day of cordial ceremony and housekeeping at the state Senate opened the 2019 legislative session. […]
WVU economist tells legislators: Entrepreneurship key to state’s prosperity
CHARLESTON – As legislators prepared to begin the 2019 session, West Virginia University economist John Deskins gave them his vision of what the state needs to prosper […]
WVU tackles opioid crisis with clinical trial of injectable non-opioid micropellets to treat sciatica pain
MORGANTOWN — West Virginia University’s Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute is leading the nation in exploring a way to treat chronic pain without opioids. The new pain treatment is […]
Legislative leaders outline goals for education, labor before start of 2019 session
CHARLESTON — Legislative leaders outlined priorities for the session that begins next week during West Virginia Press Association’s Legislative Look-ahead. There was a substantial amount of overlap, […]
Republicans, Democrats, mostly agree on legislative goals for 2019 session
CHARLESTON — Legislative leaders outlined their priorities for the session that begins next week during Friday’s West Virginia Press Association Legislative Lookahead. There was a substantial amount of […]
Education panel talks reform, teacher pay, absences, charter schools
CHARLESTON — The state schools superintendent and the leaders of the two teacher unions all want to see education improve, but differ on how to move it forward. […]
