The developers of the long-delayed, $8 billion Atlantic Coast Pipeline announced the cancellation of the multi-state natural gas project on July 5, citing uncertainties about costs, permitting, and litigation. Despite a victory last month at the U.S. Supreme Court over a critical permit, Dominion Energy and Duke Energy said in a news release that “recent […]
27 West Virginia Hospitals Join Together to Sue Opioid Companies Including Purdue Pharma…
Twenty-seven West Virginia hospitals and 10 affiliated Kentucky hospitals joined together to sue opioid companies for monetary damages, including Purdue Pharma, Monday. “Imagine what the hospitals — who are the entities of last resort — have gone through as part of this [opioid] crisis,” said the hospitals’ lawyer, Stephen B. Farmer, according to the Associated […]
Appalachian Regional Prescription Opioid (ARPO) Strike Force Takedown Results in Charges Against 60 Individuals, Including 53 Medical Professionals…
Attorney General William P. Barr and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex M. Azar II, together with multiple law enforcement partners, today announced enforcement actions involving 60 charged defendants across 11 federal districts, including 31 doctors, seven pharmacists, eight nurse practitioners, and seven other licensed medical professionals, for their alleged participation in […]
West Virginia Secretary of State Reports Successful Blockchain Voting in 2018 Midterm Elections…
The Secretary of State of the U.S. state of West Virginia Mac Warner reported a successful first instance of remote blockchain voting in an official announcement Nov. 15. Warner stated that in the 2018 midterm elections, 144 military personnel stationed overseas from 24 counties were able to cast their ballots on a mobile, blockchain-based platform […]
Manchin Holds His Seat in WV…
West Virginia House Committee Votes to Impeach Entire State Supreme Court…
A West Virginia House committee on Tuesday reportedly voted to impeach the entire state Supreme Court. The state’s House Judiciary Committee approved 14 articles of impeachment against all four sitting justices of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, the Charleston Gazette-Mail reported. The charges against the sitting justices include “unnecessary and lavish” spending of […]
Federal Grand Jury Indicts West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals Justice…
United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced today that West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals Justice Allen H. Loughry II, 47, of Charleston, West Virginia, was charged by a federal grand jury in a 22-count Indictment that was unsealed today. Loughry is a Justice on the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, who was elected in […]
Why the Democrats Just Lost the Senate…
For Democrats, the Don Blankenship dream is over. The coal-mining baron and ex-con was a pleasant diversion—the prospect of yet another train-wreck Republican candidate was exactly the kind of opponent that Sen. Joe Manchin needed in his dicey reelection campaign in West Virginia—but now it’s back to the reality of a merciless map that offers […]
West Virginia’s Striking Teachers Now in its Eighth Day…
For decades, West Virginia’s coal-dominated economy kept the state afloat. Now that it’s failing, it’s time for the state to re-focus its energy on creating a strong educational system, and good livelihoods for the teachers who support it. On Thursday, February 22, thousands of public school teachers in all 55 counties in West Virginia walked […]