The agenda for the Monday, Feb. 27 Huntington City Council meeting has been announced. Council meets at 7:30 p.m. in Council Chambers at City Hall. Read more
Howard Fineman, TV Commentator for MSNBC's "Hardball," does not know if the Iraq War was a mistake. He told interviewer, Jan Helfeld, he had never offered an opinion on the subject during ten years of facing Chris Matthews hardballs. When nailed to admit expressing an opinion on a variety of topics upon which he has commented, Fineman described himself as a reporter covering politics asking questions, noting observations, yet not making a black or white moral judgment on the issue(s). Read more
The agenda for Wednesday's City Council Finance Committee meeting at 6:30 pm has been revised, according to chairman Steve Williams. The new agenda is as follows:
Huntington Police Department Ordinance – Contract for Police Department Vehicles
CHARLESTON, WV -Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin, joined by state Senate President Jeffrey Kessler, House Speaker Rick Thompson and members of the legislature, Monday signed Senate Bill 469 relating to Other Post-Employment Benefits (OPEB).Read more
The National Association of Real Estate Editors’ (NAREEs’) 62nd Annual Real Estate Journalism Competition is magnifying its focus on commercial real estate and finance beats. Nineteen of NAREE’s 25 categories and NAREE's three overall awards are open to journalists covering commercial real estate and finance. Deadline to enter NAREE’s Competition is March 1, 2012, for work published or aired in 2011. Read more
From March 1 to March 4 CMHS Junior Tiffani Webb is helping Dress for Success River Cities collect ladies clothing such as pants, tops, sweaters, dresses, scrubs, shoes, purses, and accessories, and jewelry. Dress for Success is an international not-for-profit organization offering services such as suiting disadvantaged women for job interviews, finding jobs, and building life skills to remain employed.Read more
Wheeling, WV -- The next "Friday Night Conversation" will take place this week on Friday, Feb. 24 at the Catholic Charities Neighborhood Center, 125-18th Street, Wheeling. The time is 7- 8:30 p.m. and refreshments will be available. Read more
A revised schedule for the annual proposed city budget has been announced by Mark Bates, chairman of Huntington City Council. The new schedule follows: Read more
A special call meeting of Huntington City Council will be held Thursday afternoon following the 4 p.m. Work Session. The special call comes in response to Council's opposition to the Wolfe Administration's proposed $2.00 hike in the user fee of which council chairman Mark Bates has advised, there is no support.
Veterans marched to show their support, but cameras and other mainstream media were not in sight. Why? They marched favoring presidential candidate , Ron Paul, the only candidate who served in the military. In Paul's case, he was a flight surgeon during the Viet Nam War. Read more
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Three individuals were sentenced in federal court by United States District Judge Thomas E. Johnston for their participation in heroin distribution scheme that took place in and around Charleston. Read more
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – The Huntington post of the Society of American Military Engineerswill host Engineering Career Day (ECD) for approximately 140 high school seniors and juniors from the tri-state area on Thursday, Feb. 23, at Marshall University on the Huntington campus. Read more
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Last September, 101 Marshall University freshmen voluntarily took the Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA), a test that measures students’ critical thinking, analytic reasoning, problem solving and written communication skills. Read more
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – BRAIN STORM!, a team trivia game show based entirely on African American trivia, is coming to Marshall University’s Huntington campus on Tuesday, Feb. 28. Read more
HUNTINGTON, WV- “The Red Caboose Artisan Showcase” will be held Thursday, March 1st from 4pm-7pm at the Visitors Center at Heritage Station located at 210 11th Street. The reception will be hosted by The Cabell-Huntington Convention & Visitors Bureau and The Red Caboose Regional Artisan Center.Read more
Huntington City Council will hold a 'special call' meeting that will follow its Thursday work session. No member of council favors the Administration's proposed $2.00 per week user fee increase. At large councilman and mayoral candidate, Steve Williams, called the proposal "a dishonest budget." Why? The user fee revenues as proposed would amount to $3 million dollars. According to the user fee ordinance, revenue from said fee must go to the police department and street paving. The PDF's available show that the Huntington Police Department budget increases $278,167. Street Paving is projected as $1,000,000 , the same as this year. Read more
Huntington, West Virginia – The Avon Breast Health Outreach Program has awarded a $40,000.00 one-year grant to Ebenezer Medical Outreach, Inc. to increase awareness of the life-saving benefits of early detection of breast cancer It is the fifth year that the program has received funding from the Avon Foundation for Women to support its work on this important health issue, and in recognition of the program’s excellence. Read more
Huntington, WV, (HNN) - - Ebenezer Medical Outreach, Inc. and St. Mary’s Medical Center will be sponsoring The Heart Truth for Women Class on Thursday, February 23rd at 5:30 p.m. in Room 303, 1448 Tenth Ave. Many women think heart disease is a man’s disease. Heart disease is the number one killer of women in the United States. One in four women in the United States will die of heart disease, while one in 30 will die of breast cancer. Twenty-three percent of women will die within one year after having a heart attack. Women need to know what to do to prevent heart disease. Read more
Huntington City Council Chairman, Mark Bates, has announced the following schedule for the annual budget Special Call sessions of city council. The three of the sessions, Feb. 25, March 3 and March 10 will be on Saturday beginning at 9 a.m. The March 8 meeting will be held 15 minutes following that afternoons Work Session. The departments slated for review and their date are as follows: Read more
HUNTINGTON, WV – The Huntington post of the Society of American Military Engineers will host Engineering Career Day (ECD) for approximately 140 high school seniors and juniors from the tri-state area on Thursday, Feb. 23, at Marshall University on the Huntington campus.Read more
A nationally prominent health care lawyer, Patrick Morrisey serves as partner and co-chair of King & Spalding's Food and Drug (FDA) and Life Science Group. In practice since 1992, Morrisey has worked on many high profile health care matters and possesses a broad array of experience on regulatory issues, Medicare, Medicaid, policy, fraud and abuse investigations, legislative, strategic counseling, and legal and policy challenges to federal statutes and regulations. Read more
International Playthings is recalling Tumblekins Toys sold nationwide from March 2011 to December 2011. The toys can break into small pieces with sharp points, posing choking and lacerations hazards. Read more
Building on significant upward revisions to numbers for the previous two months, nationwide production of new single-family homes and apartments increased 1.5 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 699,000 units in January, according to a report released Thursday, Feb. 16 by the U.S. Commerce Department. This marks the second-best pace of overall housing production since October of 2008. Read more
The just released January 2012 foreclosure market report from Irvine, CA-basedRealtyTrac (www.realtytrac.com) shows foreclosure filings — default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessions — were reported on 210,941 U.S. properties in January. That was a 3 percent increase from the previous month but still down 19 percent from January 2011. The report also shows one in every 624 U.S. housing units with a foreclosure filing during the month. Read more
