By LACIE PIERSON The Herald-Dispatch CHARLESTON, W.Va. — With 18 days to go before the start of fiscal year 2018, Gov. Jim Justice on Monday told lawmakers “it’s time to vote” on revenue and budget measures to avoid a government shutdown and further spending of taxpayer money. The governor also[Read More…]
Month: June 2017
Trio of West Virginia budget plans on the table in Charleston
By JOSELYN KING The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register WHEELING — An amended plan for tax reform set forth by West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice would eliminate a proposed reduction in personal income tax for the state’s higher-earning residents. A “Wealthy West Virginians Tax” proposed by Justice on Monday leaves in[Read More…]
Latest Justice plan retains WV tax cuts, but not for higher incomes
By PHIL KABLER Charleston Gazette-Mail After a weekend of negotiations with House and Senate leaders, Gov. Jim Justice is pitching a tweaked version of the 2017-18 West Virginia revenue plan that retains income tax cuts — but with no cuts for residents with incomes of $300,000 or more. It also[Read More…]
Coal River community float celebrates importance of WV’s waterways
By RICK STEELHAMMER Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — While barely three dozen paddlers turned out for the first Tour De Coal community float event in 2005, more than 1,000 people made the 11-mile drift from the base of Upper Falls of the Coal River at Meadowood Park near Tornado to[Read More…]
Legislative conference committee discusses Justice’s new revenue plan
By ANDREA LANNOM The Register-Herald CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The legislative Conference Committee continued discussing options for a revenue bill, focusing a plan offered Monday by Gov. Jim Justice. The committee’s final day to release a report is today. The conference committee, which originally was scheduled for 9 a.m., was delayed[Read More…]
Federal grant funds enable hundreds of AmeriCorps volunteers to continue serving West Virginia communities
By CHARLES YOUNG The Exponent Telegram CLARKSBURG, W.Va. — Thanks to millions of dollars in federal grant funding, hundreds of AmeriCorps volunteers in West Virginia will have the financial resources to continue serving communities around the state. The $5.4 million grant — which comes from the Corporation for National and[Read More…]
Southern States holds dairy appreciation day in Ranson
By DAVID CRAFT The Journal CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. – The month of June is National Dairy Month, a time to spread awareness for a declining dairy industry. Southern States is hosting its annual Dairy Appreciation Day on Friday for those in the community who want to look through a window[Read More…]
Circuit Judge, former state Senator John Yoder dies
Staff report The State Journal CHARLESTON, W.Va. — John C. Yoder, judge of the 23rd Judicial Circuit, died June 9. Yoder practiced law in Harpers Ferry for 23 years and was of counsel to Burch & Cronauer P.C. in Washington, D.C. He served two terms as a Republican in the[Read More…]
EPA begins sampling, but Minden residents remain distrustful
By JESSICA FARRISH The Register-Herald MINDEN, W.Va. — Annetta Coffman once listed, to her twin sister, their sick neighbors and the ones who have died. “I can drive through Minden and pinpoint the houses,” she said Monday. “Some are two or three in a row of people who have had[Read More…]
Blenko again offering WV Day piece
By JAMES E. CASTO The Herald-Dispatch MILTON, W.Va. — In 1980, the Blenko Glass Co. began what has become a long-standing tradition when it produced a limited-edition bowl commemorating the state’s 117th birthday. Only 117 of the birthday bowls were made. Each year since, the company has continued the tradition, offering[Read More…]