Jim Lewis, Charleston Priest And Activist, Dies At 90
A longtime Charleston priest, activist and central figure in one of West Virginia’s most turbulent cultural conflicts has died. The Rev. Jim Lewis was 90.
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Senate Moves Bill To Add Judge’s Political Affiliation To Ballots
Lawmakers debated requiring judicial candidates in West Virginia to provide their political affiliations on ballots. The legislature removed party affiliation from those same ballots in 2015.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsSenate Takes On School Discipline, Other Bills
Teachers may have the ability to remove troubled children from elementary school classrooms if Senate Bill 614 becomes law. The bill sparked a lot of debate on the chamber floor. It gives kindergarten through sixth grade teachers the ability to remove children from classes or from school if they are exhibiting certain behavior like threatening teachers or classmates or otherwise creating an unsafe learning environment.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsSenate Passes Intelligent Design Bill For Public Classrooms
In 2005 a U.S District Court ruled that it was unconstitutional to teach intelligent design as an alternative to evolution in public classrooms. A bill passed by the state Senate Tuesday challenges that ruling.
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