Kilgore forms task force on higher education access
Virginia Attorney General Jerry Kilgore announced a task force to study improving access to higher education. It will explore easing barriers to admissions and expanding distance learning, including transfer agreements between community colleges and four year schools, aiming for recommendations for the 2004 General Assembly.
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Richmond, Va
Jerry Kilgore
Commonwealth
Kilgore
State Council of Higher Education In
Virginia
Ed Flippen
William and Mary
Virginia Commonwealth University
Alphabet garden arbor added at Princeton Primary School
Mercer County Vocational Center students in Bruce Albright's carpentry class built an arched arbor for the alphabet garden behind Princeton Primary School. The project involved more than a month of planning and cutting, with concrete set after holes were dug. Students say the work taught precision and effort, while planning included paper layouts and graded cuts.
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Mercer County Technical Education Center
Bruce Albright
Benjamin Dove
Mike McClaugherty
Jessy Roberts
David Matthews
Princeton
MCTEC
Rinceton — Pisiicents
Mercer County Vocational Center
Justin Spangler
Albright
Marshall seeks funding for education center from lottery winner
Marshall seeks funds from Powerball winner Jack Whittaker of Scott Depot to build a new education center in Hurricane Putnam County. Whittaker won about 315 million dollars split 113 million after taxes. The Whittaker Foundation plans to respond within 30 days to Marshall's request while noting the district lacks financial resources despite growing enrollment.
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Marshall
Jack Whittaker
Scott Depot
Hurricane
Whittaker
Putnam County
Edward Grose
Whittaker Foundation
Foundation
Bill Bissett
Grose
Budget shortfall grows in Virginia Medicaid funding
Virginia faces a two year budget gap over 70 million for hospital care to the poor. Major costs hit MCV and UVA Medical Center with only 143 million in federal support expected, leaving about 37 million yearly shortfall through 2006. State officials say no federal rescue is coming.
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Richmond
Virginia
Virginia Commonwealth University
Medical College of Virginia
University of Virginia Medical Center
U.S
William L. Murray
Mark R. Warner
Health and Human Resources Secretariat
Mcv
U.va
Richmond Times-Dispatch
Murray
West Virginia judge removed from doctors malpractice suit
Harrison County Circuit Judge Thomas A. Bedell is barred from a case accusing the West Virginia Trial Lawyers Association of conspiring against doctors after Bedell’s ties to Dr. Julie McCammon. McCammon delivered Bedell’s daughter in 1993 and had asked the Supreme Court to dismiss. Booker T. Stephens will hear the case.
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Clarksburg
Harrison County
West Virginia Trial Lawyers Association
State Supreme Court
Trial Lawyers Associ
McCammon
Bedell
The
Trial Lawyers Association
Larry Starcher
Supreme
Association
Bill Frame
Morgantown
West Virginia
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Alphabet Garden
Spangler
Parkersburg
Marietta College
Eugene Anderson
Wood County
Ohio
Anderson
Ohio College
George Cosenza
George W. Hill
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