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MANCHIN ANNOUNCES $18.7 MILLION TO STRENGTHEN PUBLIC HEALTH INFRASTRUCTURE ACROSS WEST VIRGINIA

Washington, DC – Today, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced $18,732,882 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR). The funding was made possible in part by the American Rescue Read More…

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West Virginia has highest percentage of bridges in poor condition

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Nearly 224,000 U.S. bridges need major repair work or should be replaced, according to the American Road & Transportation Builders Association’s (ARTBA) analysis of the recently released U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) 2021 National Bridge Inventory (NBI) database. That figure represents 36 percent of all U.S. bridges. If placed end-to-end, these bridges would Read More…