Month: March 2016
Proponents ready for discussion on SB 508 – nuisance lawsuit reform
WVPA Staff Report CHARLESTON, W.VA. — With crossover day for bills complete, legislators from both chambers of the West Virginia Legislature will spend remainder of the 2016 session reviewing and analyzing bills, deciding which pieces of legislation will reach the desk of Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin. Proponents of Senate Bill 508 —[Read More…]
WV House must not reject roads bill out of hand
An editorial from The Register-Herald BECKLEY, W.Va. — The West Virginia Senate passed a comprehensive bill Wednesday that would fund repairs and maintenance for the state’s deplorable roads. The bill passed on a 25-9 bipartisan vote, with all of southern West Virginia’s senators voting with the majority except for Sen. President[Read More…]
Lawmakers must avoid quick fixes to jobless fund
An editorial from the Parkersburg News and Sentinel PARKERSBURG, W.Va. — West Virginia’s jobless rate is inching back up, and the gap between the Mountain State and the rest of the country is widening. In January, the jobless rate in West Virginia was 6.3 percent, compared with 4.9 percent for the[Read More…]
WV House OKs bill to shield jackpot winner IDs
MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Though lottery fever swept the state as the Powerball jackpot climbed to more than $1 billion in January, the West Virginia Lottery’s public check presentations to jackpot winners may be over if a bill currently in the legislature is passed. House Bill 4505 would allow winners of[Read More…]
Stories come to life in Huntington on reading day
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Kids at the Children’s Place were transported to a place where ham and eggs are green and towns can exist in a small speck of dust as part of National Read Across America Day on Wednesday. As part of this event, better known to some as Dr.[Read More…]
Greenbrier County student is new WVU mascot
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Mountaineers fans cheered for several reasons during WVU’s 90-68 win over Texas Tech on Wednesday, March 2, as a new Mountaineer mascot was named. Troy Clemons, of Maxwelton, W.Va., will be the new mascot. “This is the best feeling ever — I don’t know what to think[Read More…]
WV Senate passes bill to revamp PEIA board
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Legislation to dismantle the current state Public Employees Insurance Agency Finance Board passed the Senate Wednesday on a party line 18-16 vote, over objections from Democrats who said the bill amounted to killing the messenger. The bill (SB 622) would reconfigure the board, which each year must approve[Read More…]
Chesapeake ex-CEO dies one day after indictment
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Aubrey McClendon, the controversial former CEO of Chesapeake Energy Corp., died Wednesday in a car crash in Oklahoma City, just one day after he was indicted for allegedly working with a competing company to keep drilling rights artificially low amid the nationwide boom in natural gas production. Oklahoma[Read More…]
WV Senate passes tax, fee hikes for roads
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Legislation to increase highways funding by more than $290 million a year — primarily through increasing the state sales tax from 6 percent to 7 percent — is headed to a West Virginia House of Delegates that has proven adverse to tax hikes. However, Mike Clowser, of the[Read More…]
