By RUSTY MARKS The State Journal CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Seven years after passing a law allowing public financing for West Virginia Supreme Court races, and months after watching how the law worked in practice, members of the West Virginia Senate have introduced a bipartisan bill that would eliminate the public[Read More…]
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Proposed bill allows prosecuting attorneys to concealed carry
By DANYEL VANREENEN The Journal MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — Prosecuting attorneys are the only members of law enforcement not carrying weapons, according to Jefferson County Prosecuting Attorney Matthew Harvey. Harvey said it’s not unusual to receive threats from defendants or their family members, and under the current laws, prosecuting attorneys may[Read More…]
Gov. Justice plans visit to Elkins
By BETH HENRY-VANCE The Inter-Mountain ELKINS, W.Va. — Gov. Jim Justice is scheduled to meet Thursday with seniors as part of a statewide tour promoting his highways construction program and budget proposals. Justice plans to attend lunch at the Randolph County Senior Center at 11:45 a.m., according to his staff,[Read More…]
House passes college personnel bill, forwards to Senate
By RYAN QUINN Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — On nearly a party-line vote, the Republican-controlled House of Delegates on Wednesday approved 61-38 a bill which would give three colleges in the state greater flexibility when laying off employees. Democrats tried to stall a vote on HB 2542 for a day[Read More…]
Bill aligns WV private, public school test requirements
By RYAN QUINN Charleston Gazette-Mail In a voice vote with no nays heard Monday, West Virginia’s House Education Committee passed to the full House a bill that would reduce standardized testing requirements for most private schools in the near term but also would, in the future, more closely align testing[Read More…]
Water pollution bill up for WV House floor vote
By KEN WARD JR. Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A bill that would allow increased discharges of pollution into West Virginia’s rivers and streams has moved forward again, setting the stage for an up-or-down vote Wednesday in the House of Delegates. On Tuesday, the House considered and approved just one amendment to House Bill 2506,[Read More…]
Smith: State budget cuts would hurt The Arc
By JESS MANCINI The Parkersburg News and Sentinel PARKERSBURG, W.Va. — The Arc of the Mid-Ohio Valley has a stake in program cuts on the state level, its executive director said on Tuesday. Representatives of The Arc, a group serving residents with developmental disabilities, will be at an event with[Read More…]
WV House approves bill to give MU, WVU more control
By LACIE PIERSON The Herald-Dispatch CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The West Virginia House of Delegates advanced a bill Tuesday that would provide more flexibility in human resources and personnel management to Marshall University, West Virginia University and the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine. The committee substitute for House Bill 2542 stirred[Read More…]
Veterans hope state funding will stay in place
By GREG JORDAN Bluefield Daily Telegraph PRINCETON, W.Va. — Maintaining funding for veterans programs in light of West Virginia’s budget shortfalls was a key topic Tuesday when the cabinet secretary over veterans assistance visited Mercer County. Cabinet Secretary Dennis E. Davis of the West Virginia Department of Veterans Assistance visited the[Read More…]
House panel advances legislation that puts age limitations on tanning bed use
By ANDREA LANNOM The Register-Herald CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The House Committee on Health and Human Resources advanced HB 2520 Tuesday, a bill that would prohibit people younger than 18 years old from using tanning beds. Language that would have allowed teenagers to use tanning beds with written parental consent was[Read More…]
