GOP Eyes Assault on Jay's Coal Law
Washington Republicans press a new review of the 1992 health care law shielding retired coal miners and families as Ways and Means schedules a hearing. The trust funds, credited with $100 million, draw heat over a 1950s reachback requiring former unionized coal firms to contribute.
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Jay
Washington
Congress
House
Ways and Means
Jay Rockefeller
D-W.va
West Virginia
Sam Richardson
Mel Hancock
R-Mo
Pocahontas to supply water for new Big Vein prison
Pocahontas officials say the town would provide water to a proposed state prison at Big Vein if built, disputing why the PSA was invited to a site tour while the town was not. Mayor Anita Brown urged formal inquiry and warned the town could supply water and sewer if the prison proceeds.
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Pocahontas
New Prison
Tazewell County
Don Payne
Brown
Jim Spencer
Christy Parker
Parker
Virginia Department
Bluefield Week Board Meetings and Park Roundtable
Wednesday schedule includes Main Street Board of Directors meeting and a Breaks Interstate Park conference center roundtable on Coalfield Expressway with Bud Phillips moderating and regional attendees from West Virginia and Kentucky. Also Mercer County education board and American Red Cross visit in Bluefield, plus Weather outlook for first day of summer 1995.
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Southwest Virginia
Breaks Interstate Park
Del
Bud Phillips
West Virginia
Kentucky
Cooper Center
Mercer County Board of Education
American Red Cross
Bluefield Moose Lodge
Roy Street
West Virginia Day: Why are we not celebrating?
West Virginia Day largely passed without celebration as Dr. Stuart McGehee urged reverence at the Bluefield Rotary Club. He highlighted West Virginia’s secession from Virginia and its lasting independence, noting a century of contested state identity.
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Luefield
Stuart McGehee
Bluefield Rotary Club
McGehee
Brate
United States
West
Virginia
Former plan to cut water service to Cedar Bluff shocks officials
Cedar Bluff town leaders disclosed at a press conference earlier this week that a draft tri agency water contract could have left Cedar Bluff without water. The dispute centers on a long stalled plan involving Richlands, the PSA and Cedar Bluff, with the town planning to buy about 10 percent of the 2.5 million gallons per day produced by Richlands plant under a 20 year deal.
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Bill Samuel
United Mine Workers Union
Richardson
UMW
BCOA
General Accounting Office
Cedar Bluff
Tazewell County Public Service Authority
PSA
Jim McGlothlin
McGlothlin
Jim Carmody
Richlands
Water Service
Ulysses Cundiff
Cundiff
Rabies outbreak rises in southern West Virginia counties
Eight people exposed in Monroe Greenbrier and Summers counties over two months as rabies spreads among wildlife. Veterinarian Dr Janet Hoke calls it an epidemic spillover when skunks and raccoons bite domestic animals. no human infections reported this year, though exposure risk remains high.
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Greenbrier
Summers
West Virginia
Janet Hoke
Pickaway
Monroe County
Cathy Slemp
Valley Vet Clinic
Hematite
Alleghany County
Hoke
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg
West Virginia-Virginia
Summers County
Stephen Trail
Maryland
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