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A West Virginia city was ordered Tuesday to stop opening its council meetings with The Lord’s Prayer.

Parkersburg City Council in West Virginia was ordered to stop opening its council meetings with The Lord's Prayer.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A West Virginia city was ordered Tuesday to stop opening its council meetings with The Lord’s Prayer. U.S. District Judge John T. Copenhaver Jr. ruled that Parkersburg City Council’s practice of opening its meetings with the New Testament prayer violates the establishment clause of the First Amendment,

Four years after being elected to the Parkersburg City Council with help from progressives, Eric Barber was all in for Trump.

Why All Roads For Infrastructure Lead Through West Virginia Moderate Republicans have announced a counter-offer to the Biden administrations $2 trillion-plus infrastructure proposal. Led by Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), the moderates put out a two-page glossy marketing blurb that significantly scales down Bidens package. It cuts critical infrastructure investment and has a price tag of $568 billion. Some of the ways Republicans suggest going from $2 trillion to $568 billion are by c...

PARKERSBURG — Mid-Ohio Valley Climate Action is celebrating Mother Earth throughout April. “Our featured events for the month revolve around a great documentary, ‘Kiss the Ground,” said Adeline Bailey, Climate Action member. “We have joined with Interfaith Power and Light, who have offered a free online viewing period for home viewing from April 10 through April 25 thanks to a special arrangement with ‘Kiss the Ground’ and Roco films. All online viewers must register with IPL.” ...

Sen. Markey, Rep. Ocasio-Cortez Introduce Civilian Climate Corps for Jobs, Justice to Rebuild U.S. Targeted News Service (Press Releases) WASHINGTON, April 20, 2021: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14) today introduced the Civilian Climate Corps for Jobs and Justice Act, which establishes a Civilian Climate Corps (CCC) administered by the Corporation for National and Community Service within AmeriCorps. This legislation updates, modernizes, and expands the concept of the New Deal-era Civilian...

editorial@newsandsentinel.com Andrew Whitehead, Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Association of Religion Data Archives at the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis, and Samuel Perry, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Oklahoma, wrote a book last year entitled “Taking America Back For God: Christian Nationalism in the United States.” Whitehead and Perry define Christian nationalism a...

From staff reports PARKERSBURG — A local environmental group supports a federal court’s ruling overturning a Trump administration rule that loosened regulations for greenhouse gas emissions from fossil-fuel-fired power plants. The Affordable Clean Energy Rule promulgated last year by the Environmental Protection Agency to replace the Obama-era Clean Power Plan on carbon dioxide emissions was flawed, an appeals court for the District of Columbia said this week. The decision sends the rule ba...

tbennett@newsandsentinel.com WASHINGTON — With Georgia going blue in Tuesday’s Senate runoff and giving the Democratic Party the majority leader in the U.S. Senate, Senator Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., will become the Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. Manchin has spent the previous two years as the Ranking Member of the Democratic Committee Members of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee and will replace current Chairwoman Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska. Mid-Ohio Valle...