Summer school lessons from Tazewell High School teacher
Larry Hypes, a Tazewell High School teacher and Daily Telegraph columnist, writes on summer school challenges. He notes attendance rules, reading focus, parental sacrifice, library visits, and the need to prepare students for 21st century work through SOLs and quality education.
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Mother's Knee
Larry Hypes
Tazewell High School
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Bluefield Daily Telegraph Names Editorial Leadership
The Bluefield Daily Telegraph announces its publishing and editorial leadership lineup. William Randy Deason is publisher with Thomas Colley as executive. Samantha Perry as managing editor. Patton as senior editor. Han Woodson as city editor. and Archer Charles Owens as sports editor. The staff cites a biblical quote about self-denial and following.
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Han Woodson
Webb seeks $300 million boost to unemployment system
Virginia Senator Jim Webb presses the federal Appropriations Committee for an additional 300 million to fund the unemployment insurance program, raising the administration's budget from 2.6 to 2.9 billion. He cites threatened VEC offices in Southwest Virginia including Cedar Bluff Wytheville and Grundy and warns rural Virginians could lose access to services if funding remains inadequate.
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Webb
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D-W.va
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Cedar Bluff
Wytheville
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Grundy
Southwest
Employment Commission
Southwest Virginia
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Byrd
Cochran
Employment Commissions
WEC
New McDowell school plan mocked amid road funding critique
Edd Wolfe of ria WV argues the state overpaid for consolidating Big Creek and Jaeger High Schools, spending about 20 million moving dirt with little progress while roads and new highways could attract new residents. He contends Charleston officials overrule local needs and questions the plan's value for the county.
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McDowell County
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Americans Should Demand Answers On White House Subpoenas
Dan K. Thomasson notes that Congress presses subpoenas for Harriet Miers and Sara Taylor to probe firings of U S attorneys. He warns the clash between the White House and Senate Judiciary risks impeachment talk, executive privilege fights, and deepening partisan bitterness.
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