On this West Virginia Morning, Sue and Stan Jennings for 30 years have run Allegheny Treenware, a company that makes wooden kitchen utensils. But they started off as a couple of coal miners. Folkways Reporter Capri Cafaro has more.
The bill relates to reasonable accommodations under the West Virginia Fair Housing Act for persons with disabilities who need assistive animals. The bill would not only include seeing-eye dogs, but also support animals that one might not think of such as therapy dogs for returning veterans with PTSD.
The bill one of the governor’s bills that would supplement, amend, increase, decrease, and add items of appropriations in the accounts of the Volunteer Fire Departments and Public Services accounts, among others, for designated spending during fiscal year 2014.
This bill’s Constitutionality was brought into question Tuesday.
“The Constitution indicates that when we are doing any type of supplemental appropriations such as this after the budget has been passed that it should address one work or purpose and not several,” Minority Leader Tim Armstead said. “Not necessarily an opposition to what the contents of this bill was but a concern that it could call into question the validity of the passage of this supplemental.”
Ultimately, the House concluded that there was enough confidence in the bill’s Constitutionality that it would not be hindered by future court rulings as it passed 94-4.
On this West Virginia Morning, Sue and Stan Jennings for 30 years have run Allegheny Treenware, a company that makes wooden kitchen utensils. But they started off as a couple of coal miners. Folkways Reporter Capri Cafaro has more.
On this West Virginia Morning, uncertainty about the future amidst a changing climate has given rise in recent years to a phenomenon known as "climate anxiety." Ahead of Earth Day Monday, Chris Schulz spoke with Amy Parsons-White, sustainability manager for Marshall University, to discuss this mental health issue and potential solutions.
On this West Virginia Morning, digital devices and social media command more and more of our attention these days. Balancing this and creating healthy boundaries for increasingly younger children is becoming a bigger part of being a parent. Chris Schulz takes a look at this issue in the latest installment of, “Now What? A Series On Parenting.”
On this West Virginia Morning, harm reduction advocates celebrate an anniversary and a discussion about the state’s role in supplying the global market of natural gas.