CHARLESTON – This week, former Vice President Dick Cheney is the keynote speaker at the annual meeting of the West Virginia Chamber of Commerce, an organization that recently made a point of stating that its members employ more than half of “our state’s workers.” As president of the West Virginia AFL-CIO, on behalf of the thousands of West Virginia working families I represent, I take offense.
By KYLA ASBURY HUNTINGTON – The Social Security Administration is reversing its suspension of benefits for 80 West Virginia residents. Third District Congressman Evan Jenkins released a statement June 4 announcing the reverse. "Families affected by the suspension of benefits worried about how to make ends meet in this tight economy," Jenkins said in his statement.
BECKLEY – Five news organizations filed a motion urging U.S. District Judge Irene Berger to withdraw a gag order that has blocked access to court records in a criminal case filed against Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship.
The title character in the 1986 TV cop show parody Sledge Hammer, played to perfection by David Rasche, was a comically alarming combination of Dirty Harry, Maxwell Smart, and Fearless Fosdick. His catch phrase (“Trust me. I know what I’m doing.”) inevitably preceded his next foray into mayhem and inspired confidence in no one.
HUNTINGTON - Huddleston Bolen and DeemHR will host a Human Resource Conference titled "HR 2013: Practical Information on the Issues You Face," in Huntington on March 5.
Many U.S. attorneys general are working with each other and with the federal government to employ a "drug cocktail" strategy to control and eventually eradicate the scourge that is unethical debt collectors, because just one strategy alone seems not to be enough.
Chafin CHARLESTON -- Letitia "Tish" Chafin has signed Frederick Yang, partner at Garin-Hart-Yang Research Group, as the pollster for her 2012 Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia campaign.
McGraw CHARLESTON – Nearly half of registered voters surveyed think it's time for someone other than Darrell McGraw to be West Virginia's attorney general.
HUNTINGTON – A chief Social Security administrative judge has stepped down in the midst of a federal investigation into a subordinate judge's high rate of benefits awarded in the last year.
CHARLESTON -- Huddleston Bolen announced that the topic for the June Business4Breakfast seminar will be "Communicating Effectively in a Multigenerational Workplace."
HUNTINGTON – A Huntington administrative law judge has been placed on leave while the Social Security Administration investigates the high number of social security applications he has granted so far this fiscal year.
