Manchin recalls five years in McDowell County schools takeover
Former superintendent Dr Mark Manchin reflects on the state takeover of McDowell County schools after a decade of deficits and disrepair. He recalls dramatic audits, floods, a purchasing scandal, and a community slow to demand better while noting upcoming leadership changes and calls for vigilance.
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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
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Switchback Elementary
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Japan
Douglas MacArthur
West Virginia
A. James Manchin
Kennedy
John F
Sen
Robert Byrd
West Virginia School Building Authority
Jeff Nash
Nash
Governors Kaine Manchin task Bluefields visitors pose challenge
A Bluefield visit by West Virginia Governor Joe Manchin and Virginia Governor Tim Kaine sparks a call for regional action. They urge residents to decide their path and remove barriers to economic progress, stressing government as facilitator not savior.
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Joe Manchin
Virginia
Tim Kaine
Washington
Charleston
Richmond
Manchin
Kaine
Greater Bluefields
Legislative leadership battles brewing in West Virginia
December politics in Charleston focus on Democratic and Republican caucuses to pick next year’s leaders. Rumors swirl that opponents who failed to oust Senate President Earl Ray Tomblin zero in on Majority Leader H. Truman Chafin, a powerful Mercer County figure with broad backing and seasoned influence.
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H. Truman Chafin
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Gov
Joe Manchin
West Virginia Democrats show unity in Senate and House leadership hopes
The piece notes Sen Don Caruth expected to become Minority Leader and Del Richard Thompson likely Speaker, with Del Corey Palumbo’s name as a possible candidate. It describes a unity dinner in Bluefield where Virginia Governor Kaine and WV Governor Manchin discussed economic cooperation for southwest Virginia and southern West Virginia, highlighting joint efforts and regional leadership.
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Commonwealth
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Bluefield
Eustace Frederick
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Frederick
Mercer County
District 10
Caruth
Jesse Guills
R-Greenbrier
Marshall Long
Dmercer
Mike Porter
Rmercer
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