Charleston Gazette-Mail It’s encouraging to see the West Virginia Legislature take another shot at revitalizing communities across the state devastated by the decline of the coal industry. Hopefully, the effort won’t run out of momentum. House Bill 5223 would establish a council to focus on economic development in Boone, Logan,[Read More…]

West Virginia Press Association Staff Report CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Wednesday marks the third anniversary of Black Policy Day (BPD) in West Virginia’s capital city. Developed from the responses collected from a 2020 questionnaire published by Black By God: The West Virginian – the state’s only Black newspaper – BPD provides[Read More…]

By Autumn Shelton, West Virginia Press Association CHARLESTON, W.Va. – On Tuesday, the House Committee on Political Subdivisions moved along a bill that would give mayors in West Virginia’s smallest towns the ability to serve as chief of police, and another bill intended to limit municipalities’ ability to retain revenue[Read More…]

By Mike Tony, Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Gov. Jim Justice’s Greenbrier Sporting Club property has been slated for auction as a Virginia bank looks to collect on hundreds of millions of dollars of debt Justice and his family have admitted they owe it. A Gazette-Mail legal advertisement Tuesday listed[Read More…]

By Steve Keenan, The Register-Herald HICO, W.Va. — Full-throated enthusiasm from eager Fayette County school children greeted Babydog — and the man she accompanies around the state, Gov. Jim Justice — on Monday at Midland Trail High School. Many of those same children who relished their time with the English[Read More…]

Also recommends bill prohibiting ‘non-binary’ from birth certificates By Steven Allen Adams, The Parkersburg News and Sentinel CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A bill touted by some last week as a “Women’s Bill of Rights” that would limit access to certain spaces by transgender women is on the move, along with another bill that[Read More…]

By Warren Scott, The Weirton Daily Times FOLLANSBEE, W.Va. — On Monday, Follansbee Council learned of plans by a local environmental group to monitor air pollution from local industries and was asked to assist with repairs to the Follansbee Library. Frank Rocchio, president of Ohio Valley Environmental Advocates; and Yuri[Read More…]

By Charles Young, The Exponent Telegram CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The president of the West Virginia Education Association has urged state lawmakers to pass legislation aimed at addressing student discipline issues. Dale Lee, speaking to members of the West Virginia House of Delegates Committee on Education Monday, said teachers are increasingly[Read More…]

West Virginia Press Association Staff Report CHARLESTON, W.Va. – The Senate Military Committee, on Monday, advanced three separate pieces of legislation, each administrative in nature.  The first bill before committee members — SB 554, introduced by Sen, Mike Oliverio, R-Monongalia — seeks to prohibit “certain persons from receiving compensation for[Read More…]