More join fight to keep region's Minor League teams
By Charles Boothe
Bluefield Daily Telegraph, January 28, 2020
CHARLESTON — Area Congressional representatives are on board with keeping Minor League Baseball in the region, but no progress on the issue has been reported.
Both Rep. Morgan Griffith, R-Va. 9th District, and Rep. Carol Miller, R-W.Va. 3rd District, want to keep the… Read more »
Griffith: Is the office of House Speaker vacant?
Congressman Morgan Griffith
Roanoke Times, January 11, 2020
On December 18, 2019, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi spoke on the floor of the House in favor of impeaching President Donald Trump. She told the House, “If we do not act now, we would be derelict in our duty.”
Today, Speaker Pelosi is indeed… Read more »
Proportional representation promotes fairness
Congressman Morgan Griffith
Richmond Times-Dispatch, December 29, 2019
Rules are important. It’s a lesson we teach to our children early in life. An institution’s rules shape its character. They are meant to protect everyone, not simply the people who write them.
When the Virginia House of Delegates convenes in January, one of the first… Read more »
Christiansburg's Dish Network center to hire 200
By Jeff Sturgeon
http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/315724
How to apply
What: Job fair
Where: Dish Network, 400 Technology Drive in Christiansburg (in Falling Branch Corporate Park just off Interstate 81)
When: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday
For more details: Go to www.dish.com/christiansburg.
Dish Network Corp.… Read more »
By Todd Beamon and John Bachman
http://www.newsmax.com/America/obama-griffith-election-romney/2012/09/20/id/457003#ixzz2770uTEpu
Four more years of President Barack Obama will bring a “real loss of economic power in this country,” Virginia Rep. Morgan Griffith tells Newsmax.TV.
“We would see not just a few thousand layoffs, but tens of thousands of layoffs across the coal… Read more »
http://washingtonexaminer.com/epa-stifles-u.s.-coal-but-subsidizes-it-in-china/article/2508576#.UG7jpj1STjK
Two weeks ago, the United States national debt surpassed $16 trillion. To put that into perspective, that is more than $50,000 per person in the U.S. To finance this overwhelming debt, the U.S. is borrowing roughly 40 cents of every dollar we spend, a good portion of it from… Read more »
http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/250143-gop-says-coal-mine-closures-underscore-obama-war-on-coal
By Zack Colman - 09/18/12 03:00 PM ET
Republicans used a large coal firm’s decision to halt mining at eight sites Tuesday to attack President Obama’s regulatory policies that the GOP says targets the coal industry.
Alpha Natural Resources, which possesses the world’s third-largest… Read more »
By: Morgan Donnelly | WSLS
http://www2.wsls.com/news/2012/aug/13/craig-county-farmers-meet-congressman-morgan-griff-ar-2129109/
From the farm lands of southwest Virginia to Washington DC., farmers are hoping their concerns are heard.
"Eminent domain and also estate tax which is very important to all farmers and we need relief on some of these things,” says J.C. Winstead.
"It is hard… Read more »
PR Newswire
Count on Coal campaign forcing candidates to take sides in the 'war on coal'
WASHINGTON, Aug. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- New billboard advertising in six battleground states across the country is asking voters if they know where candidates stand on coal use and affordable electricity. The recently launched Count on Coal campaign (www.countoncoal.org) has… Read more »
