Press event set for 1 p.m. Tuesday at Capitol CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginians for Affordable Health Care                 West Virginia, the Center on Budget & Policy and West Virginia Citizen Action Group have released the following media advisory: WHAT:   West Virginia health care advocates to announce[Read More…]

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The West Virginia Legislature will hold legislative interim committee meetings Monday and Tuesday, Jan. 6-7, at the Capitol. The meeting schedule is below or at the following link: http://www.wvlegislature.gov/committees/interims/intcomsched.cfm

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Registration is open for the WV Press 2020 Legislative LookAhead on Friday, Jan. 3, in Charleston. Register with Dalton Walker at [email protected] or 304-342-1011. “Media from across West Virginia will gather at the West Virginia Cultural Center at the Capitol Complex, 1900 Kanawha Blvd E, Charleston, WV 25317 on Friday,[Read More…]

By Taylor Stuck The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.VA. — The past decade ushered in a new era of drug use and addiction in West Virginia. Following a drop in overdose deaths in 2009, West Virginia started the decade with more than 400 opioid-related overdose deaths, according to the National Institute on Drug[Read More…]

By Phil Kabler For WV Press With the 2020 legislative session only about three weeks away, December legislative interim meetings brought a heightened sense of urgency – and also brought a bit of good news for legislators. Revenue Secretary Dave Hardy told legislators he is optimistic an upturn in tax[Read More…]

By Steven Allan Adams, for The Journal of Martinsburg CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The Public Employee Insurance Agency, which covers the health care of state workers, is in good shape in the short-term, but dipping into the $100 million Rainy Day Fund is a possibility toward the end of next fiscal[Read More…]

Editorial from The Charleston Gazette-Mail: A legislative audit released last week suggests setting up an online repository for legal ads, rather than require state, county and city agencies to run such ads in local newspapers of record. In the coming year, it’s estimated the effort would save government agencies a[Read More…]

By Steven Allan Adams, Parkersburg News and Sentinel CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Nearly three years after its unorthodox passage in the West Virginia Legislature, the application period for medical cannabis growers, processors and dispensaries opens up this week. But the specific details on how the medical cannabis program will work are still[Read More…]

By Phil Kabler, Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia legislators on Tuesday objected to state plans to auction off the $32 million Heartland Intermodal Gateway, in Prichard, for as little as $1 million, after the complex shut down operations this fall. “It was probably a good idea. It just did[Read More…]