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Three Preston County projects will receive funding from the federal budget.U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., announced that she secured a total of $250,950,000 in Congressionally Directed Spending (CDS) measures for a variety of West Virginia projects.These earmarks, which Capito authored after having consulted and worked with entities and organizations across the state, were included in the Fiscal Year 23 federal funding bill that passed on Dec. 22.The Kingwood Water Works WISDOM Project... Read More

The Childhood Cancer Survivorship, Treatment, Access, and Research (STAR) Act of 2022, legislation authored by U.S. Sens. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., and Jack Reed, D-R.I., was signed into law by President Joe Biden on Thursday.The bill reauthorizes the Childhood Cancer STAR Act, the most comprehensive childhood cancer bill ever passed by Congress, for another five years.The STAR Act, which was first passed in 2018 and signed into law later that year, helps advance pediatric cancer research... Read More

The Princeton Renaissance Theater project has been given a huge shot in the arm.“It’s a great step forward,” County Commissioner Greg Puckett, who has spearheaded the theater project, said of the $729,000 from the federal omnibus bill.Puckett said the money will allow the project to move forward, with an HVAC system and electrical wiring next on the agenda.A lot of work on what was once the LaVon Theater on Mercer Street has already been done, including gutting the building, framing up the... Read More

Earmarks have returned to Congress and Sens. Shelley Moore Capito and Joe Manchin — both Appropriations Committee members — have put out their lists of West Virginia earmarks included in the recently passed $1.7 trillion Fiscal Year 2023 omnibus bill.Capito’s earmarks total $250,950,000 and Manchin’s total $228,022,000. There is considerable overlap between their lists, as they made many of their requests jointly, but both lists include projects requested by just one or the other.Today we take a... Read More

Marshall University has been granted more than $1.6 million to train mental health providers for West Virginia schools.Senate Appropriation Committee members Joe Manchin and Shelley Moore Capito announced today that the U.S. Department of Education Mental Health Service Professionals Demonstration Program has granted the University $1,660,220. This funding will support the training of school-based mental health service providers to be employed in schools and local educational agencies across... Read More

Thursday, January 5, 2023, U.S. Senators Joe Manchin and Shelley Moore-Capito announced $1,660,220 from the U.S. Department of Education Mental Health Service Professionals Demonstration Program for Marshall University.“It is more important than ever that we work together to ensure every West Virginia student has a safe and healthy learning environment, and strengthening school-based mental health services is a top priority of mine. I am pleased the Department of Education is investing more than... Read More

Marshall University is set to receive federal funding to support training of school-based mental health service providers for employment in schools and local educational agencies across West Virginia.Marshall will receive $1.6 million in funding through the U.S. Department of Education’s Mental Health Service Professionals Demonstration Program.The program provides funding to establish innovative partnerships between institutions of higher education and local schools and educational agencies.The... Read More

At least one Republican is gearing up to fight the EPA’s new Waters of the U.S. rule.Senator Shelley Moore-Capito of West Virginia says she will tackle it through the Clean Water Act. She plans to introduce a Congressional Review Act Resolution to overturn the regulation. It would likely succeed in the Republican-controlled House and would only require a simple majority in the Senate.Because it is a resolution, Republicans could force a vote in the Senate despite opposition. Read More

Two local organizations will be able to continue their work in establishing Mountaineer Recovery Village in Kearneysville, thanks to recently awarded funds from the federal government.U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., recently announced that Semper Liberi and Mountaineer Behavioral Health received $1.5 million in support of Mountaineer Recovery Village, a center that includes a variety of services aimed at helping patients recover from substance use disorders.This funding was made... Read More

The federal Omnibus bill for 2023 has millions of dollars earmarked for area projects, including land acquisition for a Mercer County Multipurpose Center, a new County Commission building in McDowell County, a Princeton Multi-Use Community Center and funding for the Princeton Renaissance Theater.Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., made the announcement Wednesday, releasing details of the $250.9 million coming to West Virginia from the bill.As a member of the Appropriations Committee and after... Read More

Four Shepherd University programs will benefit from $2,708,000 in congressionally directed spending that the university is receiving from the $1.7 billion omnibus bill signed by President Joe Biden on December 23, 2022.Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., and Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., who serve on the Appropriations Committee, requested the money to support various projects across campus.“We are profoundly grateful to Senators Capito and Manchin for their support of these critical projects at... Read More

During a town hall meeting in Cincinnati in July 2021, President Biden promised to “fix that damn bridge.” He was talking about the antiquated Brent Spence Bridge over the Ohio River that connects Ohio with Kentucky via Interstates 71 and 75.Seventeen months later, Congress passed the massive Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. It included $1.6 billion to build a new bridge for the interstates and refurbish the existing one for local traffic.Wednesday, Biden returned to Cincinnati for the... Read More

The announcement, last week, of Form Energy’s intentions to build a new battery manufacturing facility on a portion of the Weirton Frontier Crossings development is seen as the spark needed to energize future growth in the industrial park. According to officials with the Frontier Group of Companies, none of it would have been possible without solid partnerships and willing investments on the local, state and federal levels. “Everything that we knew would be required to get us to this... Read More

The first ever Southern West Virginia-based Outdoor Industry Softlines Textiles Prototyping lab is being developed by $1,500,000 awarded to the New River Gorge Regional Development Authority, which will be joined by the WV Hive and WVU Institute of Technology. This funding was made available through a Congressionally Directed Spending (CDS) request made by U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee.In total, Senator Capito secured $241,135,000 in... Read More

The Biden administration finalized a rule to increase protection for small streams, wetlands and other waterways across the country. The move reverses a Trump-era regulation that federal courts threw out over fear of pollution.The policy adds definitions to what constitutes “waters of the United States” that are protected by the 1970 Clean Water Act, reestablishing regulations set under the Obama administration. The Trump administration rolled back the regulations.Republicans warned that the new... Read More

AVN Corporation today announced it has completed the transaction to acquire Mid-Atlantic Technology & Innovation Center, a strategic research and development (R&D) partner for companies in the chemicals and advanced software technologies industries. AVN acquired all of the operations and assets of MATRIC, including all technology, patents and facilities. All MATRIC employees were transitioned to AVN in the same roles they previously held. MATRIC, the 501c3 non-profit entity, will continue its... Read More

The Trump administration had rolled back the Obama administration’s expanded federal protections as part of its unwinding of hundreds of environmental and public health regulations.The Trump-era rule, finalized in 2020, was long sought by builders, oil and gas developers, farmers and others who complained about federal overreach that they said stretched into gullies, creeks and ravines on farmland and other private property.Friday’s finalized regulation protects hundreds of thousands of small... Read More

A federal funding allocation of $25 million is being made available to assist with the ongoing construction of the Coalfields Expressway project in southern West Virginia. This is a welcomed, but long overdue, development.The funding was announced just before Christmas by U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., and U.S. Senator Joe Manchin, D-W.Va. The two lawmakers said the $25 million funding award is a federal earmark coming from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.The federal... Read More

The implementation of a new IRS reporting requirement that would impact transactions of only $600 on platforms like PayPal has been delayed for a year.Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., both have pushed for the delay of the requirement, which was a part of the American Rescue Plan.The requirement, which was set to go into effect for the 2022 tax year, would lower the threshold needed on money transaction platforms in order to receive a 1099K from the IRS from the... Read More

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., is celebrating the second anniversary of the establishment of the nation’s newest national park and preserve.Legislation that formally designated the New River Gorge National River as the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve was signed into law on Dec. 27, 2020.“People from across the country and around the world have come and seen firsthand what West Virginia is all about, and they are realizing that it is the hidden gem we knew about all along,” said... Read More