At age 15, Crystal Snyder was on her own and felt the authorities breathing down her neck. Her mother, a truck stop worker in Huntington, West Virginia, left with a long-haul driver. Her father was in prison. Crystal wasn’t going to school and spent most of her time with her […]
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This article was originally published by the Ohio Valley ReSource. The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a civil lawsuit against 23 coal companies owned by the family of West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice, seeking more than $4.7 million in unpaid fines and fees for mine safety and health violations. The delinquent […]
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Have West Virginia exports been on fire recently? A tweet by the West Virginia Republican Party suggests so. In an April 2 tweet, the state party said, “West Virginia’s exports increased for the second year in a row in 2018, reaching $8.1 billion. Additionally, West Virginia’s export growth rate was 14.2%, […]
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Is West Virginia trailing its neighbors in science, technology, engineering and math in higher education? West Virginia University President E. Gordon Gee said so during his State of the University address on March 19. “Our state has fewer science, technology, engineering and math graduates than any neighboring state,” Gee said. We […]
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Besides the plan to relocate the Economic Research Service outside Washington, D.C., USDA has also clamped down on the agency’s ability to disseminate its finding through academic journals, a union representative says. USDA Economic Research Service employees are seeking union representation to help them deal with Trump-administration changes including a […]
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Do 20 veterans die every day by suicide? Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., cited that figure in a recent press release that accompanied a veterans mental health and suicide prevention bill he introduced. Saying that the goal of the bill is to “connect more veterans with the mental health care they need and […]
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