By CHARLIE BOOTHE Bluefield Daily Telegraph BLUEFIELD, W. Va. — The City of Bluefield is using the skills and experience of successful business people to help those who have just started a business or plan to. As part of National Entrepreneurship Week, which starts today, the city’s Community and Economic Development[Read More…]
Month: February 2017
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Around the Rotunda: Legislative, Committee Schedule for Monday, Feb. 20
W.Va. Legislative Committee Meeting Schedule – Subject to change Watch WV Legislature Live each day at http://www.legis.state.wv.us/live.cfm SENATE: Monday, Feb. 20, 2017 REVIEW BILLS INTRODUCED The Senate will convene at 11 a.m. On the agenda: UNFINISHED BUSINESS SCR 17: John Hancock Hall Memorial Bridge THIRD[Read More…]
This Week in the W.Va. House of Delegates – Feb. 13-17
A release from Jared Hunt Communications Director West Virginia House of Delegates CHARLESTON, W.Va. – The House of Delegates passed its first bills of the 2017 session this past week, with lawmakers focusing efforts on boosting government ethics and accountability and gathering more information on the state’s budget situation. The House[Read More…]
Bill to change WV right-to-work law advances over objections
By PHIL KABLER Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A bill to make retroactive changes to West Virginia’s right-to-work law — currently being challenged in Kanawha Circuit Court — advanced from the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, over objections from senators who said it could violate separation of powers provisions of[Read More…]
Editorial: Legislature can help Wheeling with Tax Credit
From the Wheeling News-Register: Developers understand a few percentage points can make a critical difference when one is involved in a big construction or renovation project. The old Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel headquarters building, with 144,000 square feet of interior space, is a big project. Towering over downtown Wheeling, the building has been vacant[Read More…]
Local officials still optimistic for ethane cracker
By Casey Junkins The Intelligencer DILLES BOTTOM, Ohio — It took Royal Dutch Shell officials five years from announcing in 2011 their intentions to build a Marcellus Shale region ethane cracker to confirming they would construct the giant petrochemical plant along the Ohio River in Beaver County, Pa. This means[Read More…]
Editorial: State cannot just keep crying wolf
From The Dominion Post: “Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.” Of course, no other than a saint said that. If you doubt the truth in that wisdom, look no further than how our state balances budgets. A little more than three years ago Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin proposed dipping[Read More…]
A steady hand, consistent plan needed to grow economy
From The Exponent Telegram: It’s all over the place. That would be the best way to explain how our leaders in Charleston — and Washington, D.C., for that matter — are approaching budget issues and attempts to stimulate the economy. With Republicans in control in D.C. — and mostly in[Read More…]
Editorial: W.Va. has bigger issues than unemployment pay for striking workers
From the Times West Virginian: Strikes, though not nearly as common as in years past, bring hardships. Those hardships hit workers, businesses and customers. The discomfort over strikes in West Virginia could become greater. State Senate Bill 222 is now being considered. It would make workers who have temporarily lost[Read More…]
