Aluminum Plates For Deep Space Win W.Va. 'Coolest' Contest
Aluminum plates that helped keep astronauts on the Artemis II rocket safe won the first ever Coolest Thing Made In West Virginia competition.
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Vaccine Cases Combined Before High Court
Two cases about whether the West Virginia Board of Education can mandate vaccines to students entering school without allowing for religious exemptions have been combined by the state Supreme Court of Appeals.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsLincoln County Student Asks State Supreme Court To Order Fix Of School Funding
The suit, filed with the support of the American Civil Liberties Union of West Virginia, asks the court to declare the state’s school funding system unconstitutional and order the state to meet its duty to provide a thorough and efficient education to every child in West Virginia.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsNational Report Highlights Use Of Opioid Settlement Funds For Police Surveillance, This West Virginia Morning
As one of the hardest hit states in the country's opioid crisis, communities across West Virginia have started spending their portion of the roughly $1 billion in settlements from pharmaceutical companies and distributors. Schuyler Mitchell, assistant news director at nonprofit newsroom Mother Jones, reported last month on the use of the funds to purchase automated license plate readers, or ALPRs, from companies like Flock. She spoke to Chris Schulz about her findings.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsPack Responds To Lawsuit Over Hope Scholarship Expansion
The suit alleges the expansion is inconsistent with the state Constitution's guarantee of a thorough and efficient system of free schools and could lead to the closure of their local elementary school.
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State Notified Of Lawsuit Over School Funding
The ACLU-WV said students in Lincoln County receive a worse education than their parents and grandparents did — and that by some measures the schools are worse off than the system a court already found unconstitutional.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsState Methadone Clinic Ban Faces Court Challenge
A federal judge declined Friday the state’s request to dismiss a lawsuit brought by West Virginia’s largest overdose prevention group, Solutions Oriented Addiction Response of West Virginia (SOAR.)
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