State’s higher education community to join forces for event CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Representatives of higher education institutions from across the state will come together on Wednesday, March 15, for Higher Education Day at the Capitol, an annual event held to recognize West Virginia’s colleges and universities and highlight the far-reaching postsecondary[Read More…]
Month: March 2017
Legislature unveils budget plan for ‘living within our means’
By EVAN BEVINS The Parkersburg News and Sentinel CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Republican legislative leaders on Monday unveiled a budget framework that limits state spending to the projected $4.055 billion in general revenue for the upcoming fiscal year. Describing the plan in a press conference that filled the Senate Reception Room[Read More…]
West Virginia legislators respond to GOP budget proposal
By JOCELYN KING The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register WHEELING — Local greyhound breeders would again feel the bite under a proposal to stop runaway state spending in West Virginia, according to the proposal Republican lawmakers unveiled Monday in Charleston. GOP leaders in the West Virginia Legislature announced their plans on[Read More…]
Wood County legislators react to state budget proposal
By JESS MANCINI The Parkersburg News and Sentinel PARKERSBURG, W.Va. — A $4.05 billion budget from the Republican leadership Monday has more support from Wood County legislators than for the governor’s budget. The budget proposal unveiled Monday from House Speaker Tim Armstead and Senate President Mitch Carmichael has a better[Read More…]
GOP leaders: Hold the line on spending
By LACIE PIERSON The Herald-Dispatch CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The public negotiations over how to balance the Mountain State’s budget began Monday when leaders from both chambers of the Republican-held West Virginia Legislature made their first counteroffer to Democratic Gov. Jim Justice’s two $4.5 billion proposals. To offset a projected nearly $500[Read More…]
Senate committee advances income tax bill
By ANDREA LANNOM The Register-Herald CHARLESTON, W.Va. — After making additional changes over the weekend, a Senate committee advanced a bill Monday that would decrease personal income tax and create a consumption tax. The Senate Select Committee on Tax Reform made a few changes SB 335 in their Saturday meeting, then[Read More…]
Lawmakers counter Justice’s budget
The Dominion Post CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Legislative leaders countered Gov. Jim Justice’s budget clock with a couple visuals of their own on March 13. Senate President Mitch Carmichael and House Speaker Tim Armstead, along with other legislators, stood between two oversize checks representing Justice’s tax-hike-based budget bouncing and their own[Read More…]
Leadership introduces budget framework; Justice says it won’t save the patient
By ANDREA LANNOM The Register-Herald CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Legislative leadership announced its framework for the budget, saying the goal is for the state to “live within its means” by staying within its $4.055 billion revenue estimate. However, Gov. Jim Justice, who has referred to the state as a dying patient,[Read More…]
Editorial: Limited tank exemptions proper for oil and gas
From the Charleston Gazette-Mail: You’ve got to give credit to the workers and owners and operators of 42,000 above-ground liquid storage tanks in West Virginia. They had been operating their relatively small tanks of about 2,100- to 4,200-gallons safely for years, out of notice from the public with nary a[Read More…]
House Judiciary Committee advances gentler storage tank bill
By RUSTY MARKS The State Journal CHARLSTON, W.Va. — Members of the West Virginia House of Delegates’ committee on the judiciary added amendments to a storage tank bill on Monday, March 13 that could assuage many of the objections to the legislation. The original bill, House Bill 2811, would have[Read More…]