Jan. 3—MORGANTOWN — As it does every year, the Monongalia County Commission opened its first meeting of 2024 with a passing of the gavel. Sean Sikora will serve as the body’s president this year. Tom Bloom, who served as president in 2023, is up for reelection in November. Bloom confirmed Wednesday he will seek a […]
Happy New Year and welcome to the A.M. Alert! PARENTS’ RIGHTS ACTIVISTS PLAN CAPITOL RALLY, LAWSUIT New year, same fight. Parents’ rights activist Erin Friday, a Northern California lawyer and co-lead of Our Duty (a group that “provides support for parents with a child who thinks they are transgender”), will announce a lawsuit she plans […]
New York City has plenty of famous nicknames: The City That Never Sleeps, The Concrete Jungle, The City So Nice They Named It Twice, and so on. Now, thanks to a ground-breaking zoning code update, New Yorkers may be excited to embrace one of its newest titles: the “City of Yes.” Earlier in 2023, the […]
Dec. 25—After it’s last pack of the year at Wittenberg University, the Lesotho Nutrition Initiative (LNI) has packed more than 300,000 meals to help make a difference in the lives of children suffering from malnourishment in Lesotho in southern Africa. “These meals allow children to help reverse the effects of any malnourishment issues that they […]
This article was originally published in Oklahoma Voice. OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma State University plans to increase its STEM education opportunities statewide through a new polytechnic initiative. The university will reimagine its hands-on science, technology, engineering and math education to meet industry needs through OSU Polytech, President Kayse Shrum announced Tuesday. Through the initiative, the […]