Do you know these safety tips for fireworks? By Wendy Holdren The Register-Herald of Beckley BECKLEY, W.Va. — Ten flags flapped in the breeze atop a white plastic pop-up tent — six red, white and blue American flags and four red and yellow TNT Fireworks flags. ¶ Inside, Roger Brogan of Prosperity[Read More…]
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Gov. Justice says new budget hurts WV families
By LACIE PIERSON HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice on Friday, the day before the beginning of fiscal year 2018, expressed frustration with lawmakers and his satisfaction with his roads plan. Justice sat down for interviews with news outlets throughout the state Thursday and Friday, saying he wasn’t[Read More…]
W.Va. keeps operating under new state budget
By JOSELYN KING The Intelligencer of Wheeling WHEELING, W.Va. — State government in West Virginia didn’t shut down Saturday, but West Virginia leaders are at best ambivalent about the 2018 fiscal year fiscal budget passed in mid-June that keeps the state operating for the next year. The budget in place[Read More…]
Editorial: Get W.Va. Coal Back In Energy Mix
From The Intelligencer of Wheeling: Americans can enjoy hundreds of years of reasonably priced, reliable electricity if coal is added back into the nation’s energy mix. During his election campaign and earlier this year, President Donald Trump pledged to do just that. He is working energetically to win half the[Read More…]
Editorial: School clothing vouchers — dress them for success in class
From The Dominion Post of Morgantown: There’s no need to even mention it in front of the kids, yet. But on Monday, in one of the few sure signs it’s back-to- school time, the state will begin accepting applications for school clothing vouchers. Families with school-aged children enrolled in West[Read More…]
WV ACLU files lawsuit after Hancock man arrested for Facebook postThe
By Max Garland The Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The American Civil Liberties Union of West Virginia filed a First Amendment lawsuit Friday that says a Hancock County political activist received unlawful treatment from the West Virginia State Police and the Hancock County Prosecutor’s office because of Facebook posts he made.[Read More…]
Gov. Justice: AHCA would ‘cripple’ WV
By ERIN BECK Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Gov. Jim Justice said Thursday that congressional Republican leaders’ plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act “would cripple us beyond belief.” All three members of the U.S. House of Representatives from West Virginia — Republican Reps. David McKinley, Alex Mooney[Read More…]
Governor, Senate President address Coal Forum
By ANDREA LANNOM The Register-Herald CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Gov. Jim Justice and Senate President Mitch Carmichael said they believe the state missed out by not tiering severance tax, a concept the governor advocated that did not make it through the Legislature. Justice and Carmichael addressed Thursday’s Coal Forum at the[Read More…]
Gov. Justice blames legislators for failures of special session, says road bond key to state’s future
By CHARLES YOUNG The Exponent Telegram CLARKSBURG, W.Va. — West Virginia’s governor is frustrated with the results of the Legislature’s special session, but he remains optimistic about the state’s prospects going forward. In a conversation with The Exponent Telegram via video conferencing Thursday, Gov. Jim Justice expressed his disappointment with[Read More…]
Tractor-trailer hauling more than 2,000 young pigs overturns
By GREG JORDAN Bluefield Daily Telegraph PRINCETON, W.Va. — Firefighters, state troopers, deputies, and highway workers became emergency animal wranglers Thursday afternoon when a trailer-trailer hauling approximately 2,300 pigs overturned on Interstate 77. The crash in the northbound lanes was reported 1:36 p.m. near mile marker 5.5, not far from the[Read More…]
