CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Outside money is pouring into the race for a seat on West Virginia’s Supreme Court, a seat that was last won a dozen years ago with a huge and notorious flood of outside spending. Groups independent of the candidates have spent more than $1.1 million on the race,[Read More…]
Month: April 2016
WV Democrats’ governor race getting nasty
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A new round of negative ads in West Virginia governor’s race has sharpened the Democratic candidates’ attacks, with state Senate Minority Leader Jeff Kessler accusing businessman Jim Justice of running as a Republican and former U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin issuing a statement whose headline screams “Justice is lying[Read More…]
WV economy depends on entrepreneurship
A Daily Mail editorial from the Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — With the downturn in the coal industry, there’s been a lot of talk about diversifying the economy. But what does that look like? Over the years, the governor and other state leaders have put much of the focus on attracting[Read More…]
Early voting begins in West Virginia
WV senators propose ‘Jessie’s Law’ to fight overdose
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia’s two U.S. senators have introduced a bill that would try to prevent the misunderstanding that led to a Charleston woman’s overdose on opioid pain pills earlier this year. “Jessie’s Law,” named after Jessica Grubb, would require a hospital patient’s history of opioid addiction to be prominently[Read More…]
Sen. Bernie Sanders addresses issues facing WV
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The world must move away not just from coal, but from fossil fuels, but we must also protect people working in the fossil fuel industry, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders said Tuesday. Sanders shared his thoughts during a phone interview with the Gazette-Mail on Tuesday night, in conjunction with[Read More…]
Marshall prepares to hike tuition by 5 to 11 percent
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — With little more than an informed estimation as to how much money Marshall University would receive through state funding, Marshall’s Board of Governors voted Wednesday to approve a draft budget plan and tuition increase scenario for fiscal year 2017. For all of the chatter that surrounds the[Read More…]
Huntington wins $100K, advances in competition
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — “Make not little plans.” That was the mantra for Huntington Mayor Steve Williams going into the America’s Best Communities Summit, and it paid off. Huntington was announced as one of eight communities that will advanced to final round of the America’s Best Communities competition Wednesday in Durham,[Read More…]
Milton teen, 14, rescues dad who fell down well
ONA, W.Va. — As word crackled across the Cabell County emergency scanner that a man and his son were both at the bottom of a 30-foot well Wednesday night, it was hard to tell what the Ona Volunteer Fire Department was going to find as they rolled out Howell’s Mill[Read More…]
High incarceration rates take toll on families
An editorial from The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — Americans wanted to get tough on crime, and we did. Starting in the 1980s, in reaction to rising crime rates and drug problems, sentences and the number of prison inmates began a sharp and sustained climb. There were about 1.8 million people in[Read More…]