Month: November 2014

Used car salesman tumbles long-serving Chafin

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Used car salesman and funny-car dragster enthusiast Mark R. Maynard visited reporters Wednesday, one day after he rode a Republican wave into the state Senate. The Wayne County GOP chairman unseated longtime incumbent state Sen. H. Truman Chafin, D-Mingo, as part of an election that sent packing[Read More…]

Marshall defensive line coach tackles heart scare

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Anyone who has met Marshall University football defensive line coach J.C. Price knows he puts his heart into the profession. A few weeks ago, Price heard some news from a doctor that limited his ability to put his all into coaching. The problem was with his heart.[Read More…]

City of Weston to charge for open records requests

WESTON, W.Va. — Requesting public documents in Weston will soon carry a price tag. Weston City Council this week unanimously passed the final reading of an ordinance allowing the city to charge a fee to recover the costs of accommodating open records requests. “I understand the importance of being able[Read More…]

Armstead likely to be next W.Va. House speaker

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Delegate Tim Armstead appears likely to become the next speaker of the House of Delegates after Republicans took control of the chamber for the first time in 83 years in Tuesday’s elections. “I feel like I have support within the caucus, although I’m certainly not going to[Read More…]

Why Democrats lost

An editorial from The Charleston Gazette CHARLESTON, W.Va. — For at least 14 years, national and state Democrats have been running from their successes. When it is time to explain to people what Democrats have to offer, instead they try to out-Republican the Republicans. Is it any wonder that approach[Read More…]

Post-election cleanup begins

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The morning after Election Day, workers wasted no time tearing down what had been set up for months before voters headed to the polls. A worker for Kanawha Valley Advertising was out early Wednesday taking down a billboard for JB McCuskey in Jefferson. McCuskey won another term in[Read More…]

Party switch gives GOP control of W.Va. Senate, too

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Republicans will control both chambers of the Statehouse for the first time in more than eight decades following Wyoming County Sen. Daniel Hall’s switch from Democrat to Republican Wednesday afternoon — a day after the midterm election. Hall switched parties late in the day, West Virginia Republican[Read More…]

Proof that negative campaigns don’t always work

An editorial from the Charleston Daily Mail  CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The political pundits will tell you that negative campaigning is a successful tactic. It’s unfortunate, but it must be true. Candidates and political action committees spend millions on the practice. “For better or worse, negative campaigning works,” writes William S.[Read More…]

The Associated Press shares 10 things to know Thursday, Nov. 6

Dorothy Abernathy, The Associated Press bureau chief for West Virginia and Virginia, shares the 10 things you need to know Thursday, Nov. 6, 2014. Look for full stories on these late-breaking news items, upcoming events and stories in West Virginia newspapers.1. WINNING GOP EAGER TO MOVE AHEAD WITH THEIR AGENDAThe[Read More…]

Capito to be W.Va.’s first female U.S. senator

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Republican Rep. Shelley Moore Capito will be West Virginia’s first female U.S. senator after the seven-term congresswoman handily defeated Democratic Secretary of State Natalie Tennant in Tuesday’s election. With 87 percent of precincts reporting, Capito led Tennant by a 27-point margin — 62 to 35 percent —[Read More…]

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