Category Legislative Updates
AND THEN AGAIN……..
.Many years ago when I worked at THE COURIER I did a monthly column entitled ‘HOMETOWN HEARTBEAT’. Schmaltzy, huh? But, not to me! I wrote about individuals whom I viewed as the very heartbeat of a small town. These individuals had their on the pulse…
LEGISLATIVE COVERAGE TO START TODAY
Beginning today, JANUARY 8, HOMETOWN NEWS begins our coverage of the 2024 Legislative Session which gets underway Wednesday, January 10 The Legislative Interims are ongoing today and we offer you coverage of those. Have a bill you have special interest in? Let us know and…
W.Va. lawmakers hear updates from EMS leadership during final interim session
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – The Legislature’s Joint Committee on Volunteer Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services (EMS), on Sunday, heard presentations from both WV EMS Coalition Director Chris Hall, and Office of Emergency Medical Services (OEMS) Director Jody Ratliff. First to present was Hall, who began…
LEGISLATIVE INTERIMS: VETERANS’ SUICIDE
By Autumn Shelton, WV Press Association WHEELING, W.Va. – Although veteran suicide rates have decreased nationwide, the numbers are still far too high, according to West Virginia Department of Veterans Assistance Cabinet Secretary Edward Diaz, who spoke before members of the West Virginia legislative Select…
LEGISLATIVE INTERIMS: HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES
WHEELING, W.Va. – The West Virginia Legislative Oversight Commission on Health and Human Resources Accountability (LOCHHRA), on Sunday, met at The Health Plan’s Wheeling offices to hear status updates regarding the transformation of the Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR). Dr. Sherri Young, who currently…
RACETRACK NET TERMINAL DISTRIBUTION CHANGE A BOON TO CITIES…A PROBLEM FOR COUNTY.
Legislation which received no media attention and passed last session is making its impact in Hancock County. A change jn the division on racetrack video lottery net terminal revenue is a boon for the cities of New Cumberland and Chester and a budgetary problem for…
ATTORNEY GENERAL ASKED SCOTUS TO REVIEW HORSERACING CASE
West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey joined a coalition of states and private parties in asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review a case involving the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Act (HISA).
WVPA SHARING More than 200 EMS agencies, fire departments ask Gov. Justice for support through special session call CHARLESTON, W.Va. — More than 200 fire departments and EMS agencies throughout West Virginia have joined together to ask Gov. Jim Justice to include a bill intended to help stabilize local…