By Erica Young West Virginia Press Association Capitol Reporter CHARLESTON, W.VA — The West Virginia Senate Natural Resources Committee voted unanimously Monday to report SB 613 to the full Senate with the recommendation of passage. This bill would require the Department of Natural Resources to include the election of organ[Read More…]
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West Virginia teacher strike now underway
Staff reports The Register-Herald OAK HILL, W.Va. — West Virginia teachers and school employees are on strike today in opposition of the omnibus education bill. In an interview Monday, Tega Toney, an Oak Hill High School teacher, president of AFT-Fayette County and vice president of AFT-West Virginia, said main sticking[Read More…]
On eve of strike, West Virginia Senate votes to return ESAs, charter schools to omnibus
By JAKE ZUCKERMAN Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Within minutes of the announcement of a statewide teacher and school service personnel strike, the West Virginia Senate barreled forward with legislation enabling education savings accounts, charter schools and other union-abhorred pieces of conservative education policy. Within about two hours of the[Read More…]
Union leaders call for West Virginia public school workers strike beginning today
By RYAN QUINN Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A little less than a year since the start of West Virginia’s first statewide public school workers strike, leaders of the state’s three major school employee unions called Monday evening for another strike to begin, starting Tuesday, over the education overhaul bill.[Read More…]
Intermediate appeals court bill passes W.Va. Senate
By STEVEN ALLEN ADAMS The Parkersburg News and Sentinel CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The nearly decade-long effort to create an intermediate appeals court underneath the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals took one step closer to creation Monday. The state Senate passed Senate Bill 266, the West Virginia Appellate Reorganization Act,[Read More…]
Around the Rotunda: Legislative, committee schedule for Tuesday, Feb. 19
Watch WV Legislature Live each day at http://www.legis.state.wv.us/live.cfm Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2019 42nd Day of the Legislative Session Rotunda and social activities: Nurses Unity Day, Upper House and Upper Senate Rotundas; Re‐Entry and Recovery Day, Attorney General Rotunda. SENATE: Senate to convene at 11 a.m. On The Agenda Citation Presentations Scheduled in House Chamber:[Read More…]
Mayors sign letter asking WV Senate to take up nondiscrimination bill
NCWV Media CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The mayors of 12 municipalities throughout West Virginia have sent a letter urging state lawmakers to take up a bill to apply nondiscrimination policy for sexual orientation and gender identity. The mayors who signed the letter and their respective municipalities are: Amy Goodwin, of Charleston[Read More…]
What campus carry could look like on WVU’s campus
By JOE SEVERINO The Daily Athenaeum After years of being able to successfully defend against various campus carry bills from going into law, WVU is now preparing for the very real possibility of guns being allowed on campus. House Bill 2519, or the “Campus Carry” bill, if passed, would allow[Read More…]
West Virginia DMV commissioner grilled over missing and incomplete reports
By STEVEN ALLEN ADAMS The Parkersburg News and Sentinel CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The commissioner of the West Virginia Division of Motor Vehicles was on the hot seat Friday over why her office has dragged its feet in submitting required reports on its implementation of automatic voter registration. The House Government[Read More…]
In the omnibus shadow: West Virginia lawmakers’ other education bills
By RYAN QUINN Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The education overhaul bill (Senate Bill 451) isn’t the only education legislation that’s been moving through the Legislature, though you could be forgiven for thinking so. The sweeping bill, which contains many provisions that, in the past, would have run as multiple[Read More…]