Watching CNN on Thursday, Feb. 24 I was moved to yell at the flat screen after hearing a rant by Carol Costello, which I'm reproducing in its entirety:Read more
During the early portion of the Saturday morning budget hearing, Huntington City Council approved allocation of a projected increase in property tax collections. An estimated $150,000 will be gained in revenue, which council voted to allocate for street paving.Read more
HUNTINGTON, WEST VIRGINIA (HNN) – The State High School wrestling tournament wraps Saturday after two successful days at the Big Sandy Super Store Arena in Huntington.Read more
Anytime a new candidate, untouched by politics, enters a race as significant as that of this year's Governor's race, it's a cause for celebration. Read more
HUNTINGTON, WV (HNN) – Spring rains dominate the weather forecast , and, Huntington’s Mayor told council and the Comcast 24 audience that one of the city’s troublesome flooding locations --- Kraut’s Creek --- has been cleaned.Read more
HUNTINGTON, WV (HNN) – Have you not had enough of Justin Bieber? This week, only in 3D venues, comes the Director’s Cut with an additional 40 minutes added to the concert biography.Read more
Chris Medina joined Mario Lopez at The Grove on Thursday to talk about his elimination on Wednesday's "American Idol," and Jennifer Lopez's emotional reaction.Read more
HUNTINGTON, WV (HNN) – The proposed location(s) where city vehicles should fill their tanks came under scrutiny at the Thursday afternoon City Council work session.Read more
HUNTINGTON, WV (HNN) – Call it a “High Noon” styled revelation. Minutes before the Huntington City Council Personnel Committee planned to convene to interview two proposed appointments to the Huntington Sanitary Board a statute temporarily pulled the item off the table.Read more
HUNTINGTON, WV (HNN) - To accommodate a scheduling conflict, Mark Bates, council chairman, has revised the three remaining council budget hearings. The schedule will now be as follows: Read more
BECKLEY, W.Va. – U.S. Representative Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.) is urging White House Office of National Drug Control Policy Director (ONDCP) Gil Kerlikowske, the nation’s “Drug Czar,”Read more
by Pat McGeehan, former Hancock County House of Delegates member
Too often when elected officials approve infrastructure projects they do not plan for the long-term cost (the life cycle budget), which leads to wasteful spending at all levels of government.Read more
with information from www.Recalls.org, a private 501 (c) (3) foundation. JOGGING STROLLERS
B.O.B. Trailers Inc. is recalling B.O.B.® single and double strollers sold nationwide and in Canada from April 2002 to February 2011. A drawstring on the stroller can get wrapped around a child’s neck, posing a strangulation hazard.Read more
HUNTINGTON, WV (HNN) - The sign above the heads of Marshall basketball fans was the word electrifying and that was a good word to describe Marshall's 79-61 win over Tulsa at Cam Henderson Center on Wednesday night. Even the hair on members of the Marshall Dance Team also electrified as they danced.
Marshall jumped off to a 9-0 lead then continued on that track having as much as an 18 point lead 39-21. Marshall was up 42-28 over Tulsa at the intermission.Read more
HUNTINGTON, WV (HNN) – Based on documents prepared for signing by March 25, 2011, the West Virginia Colored Orphan’s Home after that date will no longer be “endangered,” the structure and grounds will await demolition.Read more
CHARLESTON, WV (HNN) – A hearing Wednesday, Feb. 23 in U.S. District Court in Charleston extended the temporary restraining order and added an chemical engineering expert to determine if the plant will be allowed to restart production. (See Separate Story)
MIC is the chemical that killed thousands in Bhopal, India after a 1984 leak at a Union Carbide plant.Read more
When I received my review copy of Stanley Meisler's "When the World Calls: The Inside Story of the Peace Corps and Its First Fifty Years" (Beacon Press, 288 pages, $26.95) I was frankly surprised that the Peace Corps -- founded in 1961, the year I graduated from college -- was still functioning.Read more
Reality TV star Kim Kardashian talked with "Extra's" Terri Seymour at the launch of her new frangrance "Kim Kardashian" at Macy's in Glendale, Calif. -- just another venture that has earned her family empire $65 million last year Read more
CHARLESTON, WV (HNN) – An esteemed chemical engineering safety expert who participated in the investigation of the break-up of the Challenger space shuttle has been appointed to determine the suitability of the Bayer plant for resuming MIC production.Read more
HUNTINGTON, WV (HNN) – A weekend of independent and eclectic entertainment comes to town as the Appy Film Festival unfolds about six weeks earlier than in previous years.
On Thursday, Feb. 24, you can see a host of free short films in the basement of the Marshall Memorial Student Center (BE5). They begin at 7 p.m.Read more
(Huntington, WV) The Greater Huntington Parks and Recreation District announced the newest tenant at Heritage Station today. Jameson Cigar Company will open a cigar and coffee store at the historic artisan center later this spring.Read more
Directed by Tony Scott, Denzel Washington and Chris Pine play a couple of railroad engineers frantically working to prevent an unmanned freight train carrying combustible liquids and poisonous gas from wiping out a city. While most of "Unstoppable" was filmed in Pennsylvania, six days of filming took place in various locations in the Northern Panhandle, including Benwood and Follansbee.Read more
HUNTINGTON, WV (HNN) – What’s been the suggested target of numerous ‘investigations’ , only , to have them come up nearly dry? The Huntington Sanitary Board.Read more
HUNTINGTON, WV (HNN) – On the weekend before Oscar-mania strikes, you might want to catch some of the lesser known flicks that are just barely holding on at the multiplex hoping for numerous Academy Awards to boost ticket sales. Likely, “The King’s Speech” and “True Grit” will be dragging in plenty of Oscar, so anticipate “Black Swan,” “The Fighter,” and “127 Hours” to fade fast , unless they post wins in the Best Picture or Best Acting categories.Read more
HUNTINGTON, WV (HNN) – When Mayor Kim Wolfe and the new council members were installed, they found that the new Mayor was ever optimistic, even when the word “cautiously” has to be placed ahead of the adjective.Instead of seeing a half-empty city, he and many council members view Huntington as a glass half full in need of shining.Read more
by Rene A. Henry (A Charleston, WV native remembers....)
Seattle, WA (HNN) – I love trains. And, because I love riding trains I wish the senior management of Amtrak, the people responsible for passenger train service in our country, Congress and some of our governors would just get their acts together.Read more
The expression, “Bursts of Expression” came from one of my readers, Margaret Light, who wrote to me after reading my column, “Does Being On Time Mean Anything Anymore?” Read more
