Leann Ray News Today

Due to a lack of funding from the Legislature, the costs for upgrading, testing and potentially replacing hundreds of fire hydrants in the state may fall on the backs of utility customers, officials said during a task force meeting on Friday. The post Ratepayers to shoulder costs of fire hydrant testing, upgrades appeared first on West Virginia Watch.

"When powerful people go after journalists and news outlets, they go after everyone. They go after publications’ readers."

The problem — as journalists across the States Newsroom network told us — is that attacks on a free and fair press are not rare at all.

Kansas newspaper raid draws plenty of attention, but journalists have had to defy threats across the U.S., opinion writer notes.

The problem — as journalists across the States Newsroom network told us is — that attacks on a free and fair press are not rare at all.

”When powerful people go after journalists and news outlets, they go after everyone. … Let’s look at outrages big and small from across the United States,” Clay Wirestone writes in this Kansas Reflector column.

After the Kansas Reflector reported on the raid of the Marion County Record, editors from other outlets shared similar stories.

Advocates for coal miners are urging the Mine Safety and Health Administration to put more teeth in its proposed silica rule to protect against lack lung.

Leann Ray will join States Newsroom as editor in chief of its West Virginia branch. Recently, she was at the Charleston Gazette-Mail, where she worked for…

CHARLESTON — Longtime Charleston journalist Jeff Rider has been named executive editor of HD Media, publisher of the Charleston Gazette-Mail and The Herald-Dispatch in Huntington.