The Bridge Program encourages WV teens in foster and kinship care to graduate from high school and plan their next steps through mentoring. This year, the program has a 98% graduation rate for its students. https://t.co/FZ3hG8TcOg
@Angry_Staffer Blue dot in a red state. Can confirm, our voters rely on blue states, and they also regularly vote against their own best interests. Always.
After September, funding isn't clear. Newly-appointed Justice Ewing: “It would definitely be a sad result if those programs are eliminated. At this point it’s a funding issue.”
I had just talked about holding my husband’s hand as he died from cancer right before this, which is why I won’t stop protecting my constituents' health care from your sticky fingers.
I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here: https://t.co/oN0WUxF0si
SEN. BOOKER KICKS OFF LENGTHY FILIBUSTER TO PROTEST TRUMP REGIME
“I rise tonight with the intention of disrupting the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically able… Our constituents are asking us to acknowledge that this is not normal, that this is a crisis. So I am going to stand here until I no longer can. I am going to speak up.”
@pushkinforhouse Merit leads the way IF you have internet access, food, shelter... AND you haven't been touched by the opioid epidemic. And you can't be marginalized in any way. So yeah, pure merit seems applicable to one of the poorest and unhealthiest states in the nation.
New: West Virginia public schools can’t afford to implement millions of dollars in safety upgrades, including secure front entries and weapon detection systems.
“We have no money to give,” the state schools’ safety director said.
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Apologies to Brad for hijacking the post, but this was really predictable to the point I wrote about it last week for @WV_Watch
You either grind in the Senate to get power, which give you access to $ for your state, or you don't. There are no shortcuts
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