By JOSELYN KING
The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register
(Intelligencer photo by Scott McCloskey)
WHEELING, W.Va. — Ohio County public school teachers and service employees stood on the picket lines Monday with pursed lips and a universal “no comment” after West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice told them “you need to be back in the classroom.”
Following a morning town hall Monday in Wheeling in which the governor urged teachers to help him defeat a co-tenancy bill related to natural gas development that sits in the state Senate after passing through the House of Delegates, Justice promised teachers that if the bill fails, he would call for a special session to deal with the matter and another natural gas issue known as joint development. As part of that session, he said he would seek additional severance tax revenue from the natural gas companies drilling in West Virginia, and that money would help fund the Public Employees Insurance Agency.
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