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Federal cuts put Washington workplace safety research at risk
Cascade PBS - Washington
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July 29, 2025
As part of creating a new pesticide sprayer with a more targeted spray, designers tested its effectiveness of application, but not for the potential impact that smaller droplets might have on farmworkers’ health. The University of Washington...
Amid changes in West Virginia business recruitment, top economic development official is departing
MetroNews - West Virginia
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July 15, 2025
Mike Graney, whose tenure as a leader of the state’s economic development efforts has spanned two administrations, is departing the role. Mike Graney Graney was the Economic Development secretary toward the end of then-Gov. Jim Justice’s second...
North Central West Virginia Man Talks How Vision was Saved Thanks to Doctors at WVU Eye Institute
Connect Bridgeport - West Virginia
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July 15, 2025
Bob Burdette hoped it wasn’t too late. As he rushed to the WVU Eye Institute, the vision in one corner of his left eye slowly faded away. “It was like looking at a photograph and watching a corner of it burn off,” Burdette, 79, of Morgantown,...
Digging In: Why a West Virginia factory’s pollution could trouble Louisville’s drinking water
WFPL - Kentucky
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July 15, 2025
About 400 miles upstream from Louisville, the Chemours Co.’s Washington Works operation has been releasing higher-than-permitted amounts of a forever chemical into the Ohio River. In recent court filings, Louisville Water Co. – the utility that...
Slow News Week
The Intelligencer - West Virginia
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Last week was a slow news week when it comes to my specific beat of West Virginia state government news. Reporters who cover the same beat had similar opinions when I talked to them. There are weeks when it is not uncommon for me to write as many...
A slow news week in the state capital
Weirton Daily Times - West Virginia
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Last week was a slow news week when it comes to my specific beat of West Virginia state government news. Reporters who cover the same beat had similar opinions when I talked to them. There are weeks when it is not uncommon for me to write as many...
Postdoc of the Month: William Nourse
The Daily - Case Western Reserve University - Ohio
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August 11, 2025
William Nourse’s interest in machines inspired by nature took hold when he watched Jurassic Park as a child. The animatronic dinosaurs were Nourse’s earliest exposure to engineering. As an undergraduate student majoring in mechanical and aerospace...
Benson gets first taste of Mountain State
The Inter-Mountain - West Virginia
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August 11, 2025
WVU photos West Virginia University President Michael T. Benson visits the Philippi Covered Bridge. MORGANTOWN — Sometimes, a rare alchemy transforms a new landscape into a lifelong home. For West Virginia University President Michael T. Benson,...
Beyond the boxes: Facilities assistant director unpacks more than 30 years of changes ahead of WVU move-in weekend
WVU Today - West Virginia
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Download full-size During his 36 years at West Virginia University, Jeff Haught has witnessed significant shifts in what students bring with them and how they set up their living spaces across the Morgantown Campus at the start of new academic...
Reporter’s Notebook: Slow news week
Parkersburg News & Sentinel - West Virginia
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(Reporter's Notebook by Steven Allen Adams - Photo Illustration - MetroCreativeConnection) Last week was a slow news week when it comes to my specific beat of West Virginia state government news. Reporters who cover the same beat had similar...
A quiet week of news
The Inter-Mountain - West Virginia
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August 11, 2025
Last week was a slow news week when it comes to my specific beat of West Virginia state government news. Reporters who cover the same beat had similar opinions when I talked to them. There are weeks when it is not uncommon for me to write as many...
Sen. Britt leads letter advocating for NIH research funding
Alabama Political Reporter
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July 28, 2025
Last Friday, Senator Katie Britt, R-Alabama, a member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, led 13 of her Senate Republican colleagues sending a letter to Russell Vought,...
Federal court upholds Oklahoma’s ban on transgender surgeries, drugs for children
LifeSite
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August 11, 2025
News Oklahoma can protect gender-confused minors from permanently damaging ‘gender transition’ interventions, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed. (LifeSiteNews) — Parents do not have a “right” to have their gender-confused children...
Residential designation proposed for ‘Morgantown Air Park’ property
The Dominion Post - West Virginia
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August 11, 2025
MORGANTOWN — A zoning map amendment headed before the Morgantown Planning Commission would make just under 13 acres of the Industrial (I-1) zoning district that includes the Morgantown Municipal Airport available for housing development. Included...
Meet the Activist Fighting PFAS Pollution — and Winning
The Revelator
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August 11, 2025
Emily Donovan has a mission: “Make the polluters pay.” The mother of twins took on the role of activist when she started fighting for her North Carolina community in 2017. Her main target: PFAS “forever chemicals,” which do not degrade and at even...
Researchers unveil game-changing safety tool after 1,000-year flood event rocks community: 'We're ahead of the curve'
The Cool Down - Oregon
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July 18, 2025
Photo Credit: Getty Images When flash floods ripped through Ohio and Marion counties in West Virginia this June, it was a sobering reminder of just how vulnerable many Appalachian communities are to extreme weather. But in the wake of these...
Research key to understanding wild turkey numbers
The Citizens' Voice - Pennsylvania
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July 19, 2025
Whether you enjoy hunting the wild turkey, or just going for a ride along an old county road and coming upon a small flock of hens or gobblers, almost everyone relishes the opportunity to see turkeys in the wild. Understanding how and why turkey...
Health Insurance Laws Have Led to a Grim Milestone for Young People: Turning 26
Truthout
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August 11, 2025
Truthout is an indispensable resource for activists, movement leaders and workers everywhere. Please make this work possible with a quick donation. Amid the challenges of adulthood, one rite of passage is unique to the United States: the need to...
A gamble that paid off: Front Royal couple celebrates 70th wedding anniversary
Northern Virginia Daily
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FRONT ROYAL – Gambling at Randolph-Macon Academy as a teen paid off just fine for Ed Clark. Ed, 93, and his bride, Patty Clark, 91, celebrated 70 years of marriage Thursday — a feat made possible by Clark’s misdeed, the couple’s serendipitous...
STEM students launch stratospheric weather balloons
WSAZ - West Virginia
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July 17, 2025
INSTITUTE, W.Va. (WSAZ) - Students at West Virginia State University are reaching for the skies. As part of a hands-on STEM class through the Upward Bound program, students launched stratospheric weather balloons Thursday morning, July 17. The...