Interstate 68 (I-68) is a 112.9-mile (181.7 km) Interstate Highway in the US states of West Virginia and Maryland,connecting I-79 in Morgantown,West Virginia,east to I-70 in Hancock,Maryland. I-68 is also Corridor E of the Appalachian Development Highway System. From 1965 until the freeway's construction was completed in 1991,it was designated as U.S. Route 48 (US 48). In Maryland,the highway is known as the National Freeway,an homage to the historic National Road,which I-68 parallels between Keysers Ridge and Hancock. The freeway mainly spans rural areas and crosses numerous mountain ridges along its route. A road cut at Sideling Hill exposed geological features of the mountain and has become a tourist attraction.
Mineral County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia. It is part of the Cumberland metropolitan area,together with Cumberland,Maryland. As of the 2020 census,the population was 26,938. Its county seat is Keyser. The county was founded in 1866.
Keyser is a city in and the county seat of Mineral County,West Virginia. It is part of the Cumberland,MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 4,853 at the 2020 census.
Potomac State College is a public college in Keyser,West Virginia. It is part of the West Virginia University system. Potomac State College is located approximately 90 miles east of West Virginia University's campus in Morgantown,West Virginia.
Harley Orrin Staggers Sr. was an American politician who served 16 terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1949 to 1981,representing West Virginia's 2nd Congressional District as a Democrat. From 1966 until his retirement in 1981,Congressman Staggers chaired the powerful House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. A longtime supporter of the American railroad industry and its workers,Congressman Staggers' landmark legislative achievement was the Staggers Rail Act,passed in 1980.
The Child's Right to Nurse Act is a proposed legislative act which seeks to protect a child's right to be breastfed in any location where the mother-child pair are otherwise authorized to be. It was first introduced in the West Virginia House of Delegates by Bonnie Brown (D-30th-Kanawha). Delegates Long,Palumbo,Butcher,Ellem,Varner and Doyle co-sponsored the bill. Dr. Foster and several co-sponsors introduced the bill in the Senate on the same day. The title of the bill highlights that this is the first attempt to introduce breastfeeding legislation that focuses on the child rather than the mother.
The Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia is the state supreme court of the state of West Virginia,the highest of West Virginia's state courts. The court sits primarily at the West Virginia State Capitol in Charleston,although from 1873 to 1915,it was also required by state law to hold sessions in Charles Town in the state's Eastern Panhandle. The court also holds special sittings at various locations across the state.
West Virginia Route 93 is an east–west state highway located in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia. WV 93 runs from U.S. Route 48 and West Virginia Route 32 in Davis in Tucker County to U.S. Route 220 near Keyser in Mineral County.
Burlington is a census-designated place (CDP) in Mineral County,West Virginia,United States,located along U.S. Route 50 where it crosses Pattersons Creek. As of the 2020 census,its population was 131. It is part of the Cumberland,MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area. The ZIP code for Burlington is 26710.
Indian Mound Cemetery is a cemetery located along the Northwestern Turnpike on a promontory of the "Yellow Banks" overlooking the South Branch Potomac River and Mill Creek Mountain in Romney,West Virginia,United States. The cemetery is centered on a Hopewellian mound,known as the Romney Indian Mound. Indian Mound Cemetery is also the site of Fort Pearsall,the Confederate Memorial,Parsons Bell Tower,and reinterments from Romney's Old Presbyterian Cemetery. The cemetery is currently owned and maintained by the Indian Mound Cemetery Association,Inc.
Robert A. Schadler is an American politician and businessman who served as a member of the West Virginia House of Delegates for the 49th district from 1988 to 1992 and again from 1998 to 2010. Schadler represented a district that includes Mineral County.
Ruth Rowan is an American politician from the U.S. state of West Virginia. She is a member of the Republican Party and served as a member the West Virginia House of Delegates from the 57th District,which represented parts of Mineral County and Hampshire County in West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle. In 2004,she defeated the embattled House Delegate Jerry Mezzatesta for his seat after he was embroiled in a political scandal in 2003-04.
Cumberland,MD-WV MSA,or Cumberland Metro for short,is the Metropolitan Statistical Area of Cumberland,Maryland,and the surrounding economic region of Allegany County,Maryland,and Mineral County,West Virginia,in the United States.
The 2010 United States Senate special election in West Virginia was held on November 2,2010. Incumbent Democratic Senator Robert Byrd died in office on June 28,2010. Democratic Governor Joe Manchin appointed Carte Goodwin to temporarily fill the vacancy. Goodwin pledged to not run for election to the seat in exchange for the appointment. This was the first open U.S. Senate seat in West Virginia since 1984 and the first in this seat since 1956. Manchin won the open seat and served out the remainder of Byrd's elected term,which ended on January 3,2013.
Timothy J. Manchin is an American politician and attorney. He has served in the West Virginia House of Delegates since 2003. He was appointed to the seat vacated by the death of his uncle,A. James Manchin,in November 2003.
The 2014 United States Senate election in West Virginia was held on November 4,2014,to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of West Virginia,concurrently with other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. This election was the fifth consecutive even-number year in which a senate election was held in West Virginia after elections in 2006,2008,2010,and 2012.
Several US States have introduced various resolutions and legislation in protest to federal actions. Despite this,the Supreme Court has explicitly rejected the idea that the states can nullify federal law. In Cooper v. Aaron (1958),the Supreme Court of the United States held that federal law prevails over state law due to the operation of the Supremacy Clause,and that federal law "can neither be nullified openly and directly by state legislators or state executive or judicial officers nor nullified indirectly by them through evasive schemes ..." Thus,state laws purporting to nullify federal statutes or to exempt states and their citizens from federal statutes have only symbolic impact.
The 2018 United States Senate election in West Virginia took place on November 6,2018,to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of West Virginia,concurrently with other elections to the United States Senate,elections to the United States House of Representatives,and various state and local elections.
West Virginia's 14th Senate district is one of 17 districts in the West Virginia Senate. It is currently represented by Republicans David Sypolt and Randy Smith. All districts in the West Virginia Senate elect two members to staggered four-year terms.
