Online Aid Applications Streamline PROMISE Scholarships
Gov. Wise announced a single online financial aid form for need based grants and PROMISE scholarships, available at promisescholarships.org and wwapply.com. The merit PROMISE covers in state tuition for high school students with a 3.0 GPA and ACT 21 or SAT 1000, deadline January 31. Bridge Day attendance reached about 85,000 amid cooler weather and heightened security, with the New River Gorge Bridge closed to traffic for the first time since 1980. Over 200 law enforcement officers staffed the event, but officials said searches and inconveniences were minimal and did not dampen the mood.
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Bob Wise
Promise
Robert Morgenstern
Promisescholarships.org
Wwapply.com
Fayetteville
Sharon Cruikshank
New River
New River Gorge Bridge
Fayette County
Cruikshank
DEP flood proposal delayed again in Wise plan review
Charleston AP Wise administration asks DEP to re examine flood controls at mining sites to ease union safety concerns from United Mine Workers. 1800 word report to Gov Wise outlines runoff controls for floods near mines and logging zones after July 2001 floods. DEP weighs bottom up valley fills to reduce risk. union officials warn of dangers to truck drivers and safety.
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Wise
State Department of Environmental Protection
United Mine Workers
Bob Wise
Callaghan
Matt Crum
DEP
Lawmakers target malpractice limits as top 2003 priority
Charleston AP lawmakers in West Virginia pledge malpractice lawsuit limits as a leading issue for 2003. House Speaker Bob Kiss and Judiciary Chair Jon Amores eye reducing nonEconomic damage caps from 1 million and imposing proportionate liability. The Care Coalition seeks 250000 caps, lawyer payment limits, and tight fault-based damages. The move ties to state medical association plans for a doctors mutual insurance option.
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House
Bob Kiss
D-Raleigh
Jon Amores
D-Kanawha
Kiss
Amores
Bob Wise
West Virginia State Medical Association
Care Coalition
The
Medical Association
Physicians Mutual Insurance Company
ODU to lay off up to 73 staff amid funding cuts
Old Dominion University plans cutbacks of up to 73 employees, all non faculty, while tuition may rise about 8.4 percent next term. Board of Visitors endorsed 50 non teaching, 20 part time, and three administrators, with some layoffs possibly avoided. President Roseann Runte urged that class sizes stay steady and academics remain intact.
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Orfolk
Old Dominion University
ODU
Roseann Runte
Dismal Virginia Cotton Harvest Expected Across Region
In Suffolk and southeast Virginia cotton growers forecast meager yields. Wayland West, once a top producer at 1300 pounds per acre, now expects around 300 pounds. Agronomist Johnny Parker cites drought and stress, noting state forecasts around 600 pounds, with actuals uncertain. Cotton’s revival after boll weevil eradication in the 1980s and 1990s contrasts with this poor year.
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Wayland West
Virginia
West
Johnny Parker
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Windsor
Virginia Department of Agriculture
Parker
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Mercer
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Bluefield Regional Medical Center
Muhammad S. Ahmed
Muhammed S. Khokar
M.D
Joel A. Schor
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Cherry Street
Bluefield
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