MORGANTOWN – It’s a bare bones room on the top floor of the upper building of the Mon Health medical park – really bare bones: concrete floor, […]
State Government
Gov. Justice puts up $100 savings bonds as incentive to get shots
MORGANTOWN — Gov. Jim Justice Monday appealed to patriotism and love of state in asking West Virginia’s 16- to 35-year-olds for their assistance in boosting vaccination numbers. […]
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 […]
‘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 […]
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 […]
As vaccine pace slackens, Justice and team urge West Virginians not to quit before the race is won
MORGANTOWN — COVID variants and the slackening pace of vaccinations in the state occupied most of Friday’s COVID-19 briefing from the Capitol. Gov. Jim Justice summed up […]
Justice and team: Johnson & Johnson vaccine pause won’t hinder state program; no veto planned for transgender sports bill
MORGANTOWN — A good portion of Wednesday’s COVID-19 briefing from the Capitol was taken up with the national pause placed on the Johnson & Johnson vaccine after […]
Governor pauses use of Johnson & Johnson vaccine after CDC news; WVU Medicine, Mon Health comment
MORGANTOWN – Following Tuesday’s joint CDC/FDA announcement about the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine, Gov. Jim Justice put an immediate statewide pause on all use of the […]
Justice unveils new statewide remote work program, signs W.Va. corporate tax reform bill
CHARLESTON — Gov. Jim Justice joined Intuit executive, co-founder of the Wing 2 Wing Foundation, and West Virginia native Brad Smith and his wife, Alys, to unveil […]
DHHR gets federal approval for SNAP emergency supplemental allotments
CHARLESTON — The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, Bureau for Children and Families has been granted approval by the federal government to issue emergency […]
