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On this episode of The Legislature Today, News Director Eric Douglas talks with Deak Kersey, the chief deputy secretary of state and the chief of staff for Secretary Kris Warner, about a series of bills working their way through the state legislature that pertain to elections. They touch on topics including removing ineligible voters from the rolls, clarifying eligibility requirements and prohibiting ranked choice voting.
Also, it’s not uncommon for lawmakers to reintroduce a bill that failed the previous year, especially when that bill progressed out of at least one chamber. As Chris Schulz reports, the education committees on both sides of the Capitol have focused on such bills to start this year’s session.
In the House, delegates passed two bills pertaining to criminal justice.
And students at Marshall University recently spoke up on the future of the school’s many Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, or DEI, related programs. As Randy Yohe reports, a campus rally also brought out students concerned that their majors and minors may not lead to the career paths they once expected. (Student journalists from Marshall helped prepare this report.)
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Court challenges by conservation groups to a state air quality permit as well as to redactions in the permit application were dismissed last week on procedural grounds.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsInmates at the Ohio County Correctional Center are being moved to other corrections space so the facility in Wheeling can close.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsThose who receive SNAP benefits in Lewis, Pleasants, Ritchie and Upshur counties can use those dollars to buy hot or prepared foods for the next few weeks, thanks to a temporary federal waiver.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsNoise pollution has reached dangerous levels for residents living near the Memphis-Mississippi border. That’s the home of Elon Musk’s X-AI data center campus that runs Grok, the AI chatbot for the social platform X, formerly known as Twitter. For the Appalachia + Mid-South Newsroom, WPLN’s Caroline Eggers reports on what’s becoming an emerging model of data center – and unchecked noise pollution.
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