Month: May 2017

Fourteen miles of memories for sale in the Eastern Panhandle

By JIM McCONVILLE The Journal MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Consider it a 14-mile long candy store for yard sale bargain hunters. Eastern Panhandle residents can literally rummage along a 14 mile line of “pre-owned” merchandise at the 10th annual 14-Mile Yard Sale on May 27. The one-day event, which unofficially kicks[Read More…]

10 things to know: Thursday, May 25

The regional bureau of The Associated Press, shares 10 things you need to know  Thursday, May 25, 2017. Look for full stories on these late-breaking news items and much more in West Virginia newspapers. 1. UK ANGERED BY US BOMBING LEAKS British security and law enforcement officials are reviewing whether[Read More…]

Gulf in WV budget talks widens as special session continues

By PHIL KABLER Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — In a move more likely to intensify than resolve the 20-day-old legislative budget impasse, West Virginia Senate Republicans moved closer Tuesday to restoring their version of a revenue plan that cuts income taxes and severance taxes on coal while imposing an increase[Read More…]

Justice adds FY 2018 budget and other legislation to special session

By SARAH PLUMMER The Register-Herald CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Gov. Jim Justice introduced a 2018 budget bill and six pieces of legislation to the ongoing special session Tuesday. The budget bill has been greatly anticipated as the House and Senate modified and contemplated a revenue bill for the first eight days[Read More…]

Legislative movement expected soon on revenue, roads bills

By RUSTY MARKS The State Journal CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Members of the West Virginia Senate’s committee on finance passed an amended version of a House of Delegates tax and revenue bill on Tuesday, May 23 that would raise the state sales tax from 6 percent to 7.25 percent and would[Read More…]

WV groups hope study leads to end of mountaintop removal mining

By KEN WARD JR. Charleston Gazette-Mail LOGAN, W.Va.  — West Virginia environmental groups on Tuesday urged a National Academy of Sciences panel to look carefully at the public health impact of strip mining, saying they hope more scrutiny of the issue will lead to a ban on the practice. “We[Read More…]

Governor reintroduces legislation to sell Hopemont

By THERESA MARTHEY The Preston County News & Journal CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Governor Jim Justice announced that he is adding six pieces of legislation to the special session. One of the proposed pieces of legislation is a House of Delegates Bill reintroducing the sell Hopemont Hospital. The bill has been[Read More…]

WV delegation: Trump budget hurts Mountain State

By TAYLOR STUCK The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — West Virginia’s representatives in the nation’s capital have concerns on how cuts in President Donald Trump’s newly released budget proposal for the coming year could affect West Virginians. Download PDF of Manchin on Trump budget “Look at all the categories that get hit[Read More…]

Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston purchases Wheeling Jesuit University

Staff report The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register WHEELING, W.Va. — Wheeling Jesuit University has been purchased by the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston to assure the future of the only Catholic university in West Virginia. Earlier this year, WJU’s board of trustees appealed to the diocese to take action to help secure[Read More…]

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