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  • GLEN JEAN, WV (LOOTPRESS) – Today, U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) applauded the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve’s announcement that they have added 45 acres of land to the area designated as the preserve.The tract located on Beury Mountain, just east of the Thurmond area, will provide easier access and add to the national preserve area of the New River Gorge where hunting is already allowed. This acquisition was made possible by Senator Capito’s successful efforts to... Read More
  • GLEN JEAN, W.Va. (WV News) — Additional acreage has been added to New River Gorge National Park and Preserve, the U.S. National Park Service announced Tuesday. The 45 additional acres located on Beury Mountain just east of the Thurmond area in Fayette County will be designated as a preserve and provide easier access to lands already part of the national preserve, the release states.  “This property is a great addition to the national preserve portion of the park where hunting is allowed,” said... Read More
  • LOGAN, W.Va. — Mountain Health Network, Marshall Health, and Logan Regional Medical Center, a ScionHealth Community Hospital, recently announced a new collaboration aimed at bringing more opportunities for specialty care to southern West Virginia.Through a new memorandum of understanding, the organizations will work to establish a process for identifying and implementing opportunities to enhance health care services for the residents of Logan and surrounding areas.“Mountain Health and Logan... Read More
  • WEST VIRGINIA (WTRF) — A major step was taken last year to make mental services quickly available in a crisis.The phone number to call changed to just three digits, 9-8-8.Since then calls have been steady at the lifeline in West Virginia.But texts and chats are on the rise.The 988 lifeline will soon get a funding boost to reach more people.Senators Joe Manchin and Shelley Moore Capito announced more than $450,000 that’s going to the program. It will be used to create partnerships with 911... Read More
  • BUCKHANNON, W.Va. (WV News) — Upshur County will benefit from two Congressionally Directed Spending grants secured by U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito.One of the grants targets water and sewer infrastructure, while the other is aimed at improving health care, according to Capito’s office.Upshur is part of an 18-county group that benefits from Environmental Infrastructure Section 571 funding, which provides a program of federal assistance through the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that allows... Read More
  • PARKERSBURG — The federal omnibus spending bill passed at the end of 2022 contains millions of dollars in earmarks for projects in the Mid-Ohio Valley.Among those is an effort to redevelop industrial sites in Parkersburg, particularly in the areas of Depot and Jeanette streets, East Street and Camden Avenue, according to a list of earmarks provided by the office of U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va.A release from her office said she secured spending for the projects, some of which were also... Read More
  • Years ago federal earmarks were used as building blocks for key infrastructure projects across our region. For example, the first sections of the King Coal Highway in Mercer County, including the K.A. Ammar Interchange and the Christine West Bridge, were largely made possible through the use of federal earmarks.However, the practice of using earmarks eventually fell out of favor with lawmakers and the public, and the process was suspended by Congress in 2011. Part of the problem at the time was... Read More
  • The Childhood Cancer Survivrship, Treatment, Access, and Research (STAR) Act of 2022, legislation authored by U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., and Jack Reed, D-R.I., was signed into law by President Joe Biden on Jan. 5.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 on June 5, 2018, helps advance pediatric... Read More
  • U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., delivered remarks at Logan Regional Medical Center commending the new collaboration between several health organizations to bring more opportunities for specialty care to southern West Virginia.Leaders announced a new Memorandum of Understanding signed by Logan Regional Medical Center, Mountain Health Network, Marshall Health, and Scion Health that will allow the organizations to enhance health care services for the residents of Logan and surrounding... Read More
  • POINT PLEASANT, W.Va. (WV News) — Mason County will benefit from more than $11 million in Congressionally Directed Spending awards allocated by U.S. Sen. Shelly Moore Capito, R-W.Va., including direct funding for a sewer collection system pivotal to the Nucor development.That $1 million grant for the Mason county Public Service District will help to fund the Apple Grove Sewer Collection System Project. The project will provide service for the Apple Grove, Mercers Bottom and Ashton areas of the... Read More
  • U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., members of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced $498,512 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to support increased Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services at Marshall University and National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) of Greater Wheeling.The funding aims to bolster treatment of those dealing with substance use disorder and severe mental health issues, according to a press release.“Making... Read More
  • THIS WEEK:President Joe Biden announced an expansion of the Title 42 pandemic expulsions policy, recently prolonged by the U.S. Supreme Court, to encompass citizens of Cuba, Haiti, and Nicaragua, earning strong criticism from migrant rights’ advocates. The announcement came with a new “humanitarian parole” policy for those countries’ citizens, and plans to expand use of a CBP app to process protection-seeking migrants’ requests. Biden then paid a brief visit to El Paso en route to a meeting of... Read More
  • Area residents concerned about new IRS reporting requirements that would impact transactions of only $600 on platforms like PayPal can breath a temporary sigh of relief. But the key word here is temporary.The implementation of the controversial IRS reporting requirement, a part of the American Rescue Plan, has been delayed by a year.Both U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., and U.S. Senator Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., pushed for the delay — arguing it would give Congress more time to correct... Read More
  • President Joe Biden on Jan. 5 signed into law a bipartisan bill introduced by U.S. Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) that requires all athletes representing the United States in international amateur athletic competitions to receive equal compensation and benefits for their work, regardless of gender.“I’m proud to have championed this bipartisan effort, and look forward to the positive impact this will have on our Team USA athletes now that this is the law of the land,” Sen. Capito said on... Read More
  • Senators are calling on the Biden administration to give states more time to weigh in on a map that will inform how much money they receive to connect Americans to the internet.Congress is keeping a close eye on two agencies tasked with deploying $42.5 billion for broadband from last year’s infrastructure law. Past attempts to expand internet access—which lawmakers say will improve equity and economic opportunity—have faltered because of inaccurate data on who is and isn’t connected in the US. A... Read More
  • Bad ideas coming out of Washington are nothing new. But two recent proposals by the Biden administration are more than worthy of criticism.You may have heard of the first — a proposed ban on gas stoves. Google this and will you likely get results such as “Biden is coming for your gas stove,” which was the headline of a recent opinion piece offered by the Wall Street Journal.As crazy as the proposed ban sounds, it is something that the Biden administration is actually considering.The proposed ban... Read More
  • ATHENS, W.Va. (WVVA) -Two projects at Concord University are set to receive federal funding: a physician’s assistant program and a research center for “Rare Earth Elements.” West Virginia’s Junior U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito secured $1,050,000 to establish the Master of Science Program in Physician Assistant Studies.“...And it’s designed to be focused on rural areas so that we can help people in the areas that surround us, and also, it’s got a focus on preventative health,” says Dr. Kendra... Read More
  • CHARLESTON, WV (WVNS) – On December 28, 2022, the Anna Westin Legacy Act was signed into law by President Joe Biden.This law, introduced by U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito and a bipartisan group of senators authorizes the Center of Excellence for Eating Disorders, which provides training and technical assistance to health care workers, teachers, and parents on how to identify eating disorders and support patients in recovery. 9% of the U.S. population will have an eating disorder in their... Read More
  • WASHINGTON, D.C. (LOOTPRESS) – Yesterday, Congresswoman Carol Miller (R-WV) re-introduced the Saving Gig Economy Taxpayers Act, which would repeal an unwarranted and unfair tax hike in the American Rescue Plan. The bill has the support of 13 returning Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee.For the past two years, Congresswoman Miller has been working with Republicans to fix another liberal tax increase in the American Rescue Plan which targets hardworking taxpayers and independent... Read More
  • ATHENS — Concord University will offer a new degree program in medical training and develop a research center related to rare earth elements thanks to funding from the 2023 Omnibus Appropriations bill.Details of the bill were released last week and West Virginia is receiving a total of about $250 million for various projects around the state.One of Sen. Shelley Moore Capito’s, R-W.Va., requests was for just over $1 million for Concord to start a new physician assistant program.“I am proud to... Read More