Washington, D.C. - For the last several years, Cato has been leading the campaign to abolish qualified immunity -- an atextual, ahistorical judicial doctrine that shields state officials from liability, even when they violate people's constitutional rights. The most immediate practical goal of this campaign has been to convince the U.S. Supreme Court to hear one of the many cases calling for qualified immunity to be either narrowed or reconsidered outright.
Huntington - Mayor Steve Williams signed an executive order Friday establishing temporary rules that expedite the process for restaurants to create outdoor dining.
During her 33rd adventure at The Happy Store, Clementine looks out (and in) a window.
Clementine Fraile was usually assigned to “open the store.” This meant arriving half an hour early and – broom and dust pan in hand – sweeping in and around the aisles. After that, she would take a roll of paper towels and a spray bottle to The Happy Store’s all-glass front doors, and begin to clean. Read more
Below, is the agenda for Monday’s regularly scheduled Ceredo Town Council meeting. Regularly scheduled meetings occur at 6:30 p.m. the first Monday at town hall on B St.
Huntington – Marshall University has starting accepting online applications from students for emergency financial assistance grants provided through the federal CARES (Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security) Act.Read more
Huntington – In response to COVID-19, Marshall University’s Office of Career Education will conduct a virtual Career Expo from 2 to 4 p.m. Wednesday, May 6, on the university’s JobTrax web site. The event is for all majors seeking full-time, part-time and internship positions, and companies seeking employees in those categories.Read more
A common phrase I have heard lately all around the internet as well as all around the area I live whenever the pandemic situation is broached is that “We are all in this together, and WE will get through this together….”
Thousands of colleges across the country are being infused with billions of dollars in cash after they were forced to close their campuses and move classes online amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Below, is the agenda for Thursday's regularly scheduled Cabell County Commission meeting. Regularly scheduled meetings occur at 10 a.m. the second, and fourth Thursdays in the commission's meeting room on the third floor of the courthouse.
Below, is the agenda for Monday's regularly scheduled Wayne County Commission meeting. Regularly scheduled meetings occur at 3 p.m. the first Thursday, and 10 a.m. the following Mondays in the commission's meeting room at the courthouse.
Below, is the agenda for Monday's regularly scheduled Huntington City Council meeting. Regularly scheduled meetings occur at 7:30 p.m. the second, and fourth Mondays at city hall.
Huntington -The Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine selected six medical students, three resident physicians and two faculty members for membership into Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society.
In a news conference Monday, West Virginia Governor Jim Justice ordered that all West Virginia public schools will be closed for the remainder of the school year. This closure affects face-to-face instruction; however, the Governor has directed that school districts continue remote learning and nutrition programs.Read more
Huntington - Marshall University officials announced they expect to receive federal stimulus funds from the U.S. Department of Education to provide emergency financial assistance for students adversely impacted by the recent shutdown.Read more
Below, is the agenda for Tuesday’s Barboursville village council agenda. Regularly scheduled meetings occur at 7:30 p.m. first, and third Tuesdays at the community center.
"Let's go out to the drive in theater" in the 50s and 60s were a family and teen alternative to indoor theaters. Prices were lower (often opening a picture three to four weeks after the indoor debut), there were double and triple features, by the car load prices and dusk to dawn showings, and playgrounds.
Families and teens populated the drive ins during their heyday during the 50s and 60s. Families liked less expensive pricing than downtown and the teens had a front and/or back car seat for making out and more. Read more
Thanks to government-coerced economic shutdowns—on top of the severe recession currently brewing—tax revenues are plummeting. And many governments are already expecting the hit to be larger than it was during the Great Recession.
Students at two universities have filed lawsuits against their schools, demanding at least some of their tuition money back after campus officials switched to online learning following the outbreak of COVID-19.
Clementine puts on her Sherlock hat in her 32nd adventure at The Happy Store.
With very few exceptions, The Happy Store’s customers are conventional. They dress nicely in go-to-the-office clothes, and they have perfect hair, makeup and nails. Even male shoppers (often husbands) look as if they are on their way to play golf or buy yachts after negotiating million dollar deals. For the most part, they are also kindly people with benevolent dispositions. But their worlds do not include house parties to which pretty girls are invited that have tattoos on their arms, backs, necks, or wrists. Read more
Huntington – The Marshall University Nutrition Education Program has launched a weekly video campaign on Facebook aimed at providing free, healthy resources for families with children unable to attend school due to the state of emergency.Read more
Huntington- For the past 20 years the Life Writing Class, directed by journalist, editor and author Dr. John Patrick Grace, has helped the area’s aspiring memoirists and life-based fiction writers to begin, shape up and then publish their stories in book form. Sixty-three books have been issued to date by alumni of this class.Read more
Charleston - The Herb Henderson Office of Minority Affairs in conjunction with the West Virginia Secretary of State's Office will conduct a conference call Thursday to field questions about changes to the upcoming primary election.
Below, is the agenda for Monday's special Huntington Municipal Development Authority meeting. The meeting will begin at 4 p.m., and conducted telephonically. Read more
Huntington – Marshall University’s Doctor of Education degree in Leadership Studies has been named among the 2020 most affordable online doctorates in education by the website OnlineU.org.Read more
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