* Mid-Ohio Valley Fellowship Home Executive Director Brandy Blatt should be pleased with the degree to which the home fulfills its mission — and won the respect of the West Virginia First Foundation. The Fellowship Home received $80,000 from the foundation to provide recovery support services ...

“With the Legislature back in session, it’s important that lawmakers focus on policies that will ignite our workforce and strengthen Main Street.” Gil White, National Federation of Independent Business West Virginia state director, was responding to news that small business job creation ...

Members of the state Senate sent a clear message to voters Wednesday: We don’t trust you to become informed enough on your own to elect judges; and we think so little of you that we believe you can be swayed solely by looking at the letter after a candidate’s name. Back in 2015, state ...

Remember back in June 2022, when West Virginia lawmakers contracted with McChrystal Group for a thorough assessment of what was then the state Department of Health and Human Resources? The group was supposed to come up with a strategic plan for the agency, and was paid $1.08 million to do ...

Though the official anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is Aug. 18, West Virginia’s part in approving this monumental and progressive shift played out on March 10, 1920. “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or ...

A dive into the American Lung Association’s “State of Tobacco Control” shows our region doesn’t come close to meeting the ALA’s standards for fighting the damage we know is done by tobacco products. Both Ohio and West Virginia performed miserably in the group’s report card. Ohio ...