By BRETT DUNLAP The Parkersburg News and Sentinel CHARLESTON, W.Va. — There is a need for treatment and different approaches in dealing with the state’s drug epidemic, experts said Thursday. Experts and professionals who deal with the state’s opioid epidemic addressed the West Virginia Press Association’s 2018 Legislative Breakfast at[Read More…]
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Officials say road projects, Marcellus Shale energizing West Virginia
By BRETT DUNLAP The Parkersburg News and Sentinel CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Upcoming highway projects and opportunities in the energy sector have the potential to create many jobs and economic opportunities throughout the state, officials said. State officials and business leaders addressed the West Virginia Press Association’s 2018 Legislative Breakfast Thursday[Read More…]
W.Va. issues discussed for government leaders, media at WVPA breakfast event
By JIM WORKMAN West Virginia Press Association CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Issues from the current West Virginia Legislative Session — along with panel discussions on Improving our Highways, West Virginia Power Plants and the Opioid Epidemic — highlighted Thursday’s West Virginia Press Association 2018 Legislative Breakfast at Embassy Suites hotel in Charleston. “The exchange[Read More…]
West Virginia Gov. Justice proposes additional PEIA premium reductions
By ANDREA LANNOM The Register-Herald CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Gov. Jim Justice proposed for Public Employee’s Insurance Agency to change its policy and reduce premiums for families who have dual state incomes, including teachers. Justice said in a Thursday press release that the PEIA finance board will conduct public hearings Feb.[Read More…]
Lawmakers to meet with state workers Saturday at Tamarack
The Register-Herald BECKLEY, W.Va. — Sen. Richard Ojeda and other delegates will meet with state workers Saturday at 4:30 p.m. at Tamarack. The lawmakers will hear people’s concerns with changes to Public Employees Insurance Agency (PEIA) changes and state employees’ pay, according to Nora Lilly, president of West Virginia Public Workers Union, UE[Read More…]
West Virginia Ethics Commission OKs tourism contract with Justice’s Greenbrier resort
By PHIL KABLER Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia Division of Tourism officials can partner with The Greenbrier resort as part of the division’s new Cooperative Advertising Program, after the state Ethics Commission granted Tourism a contract exemption. Tourism officials argued it would be an undue hardship if the[Read More…]
West Virginia Senate Committee on Education takes up bill to require elective courses on the Bible
By ANDREA LANNOM The Register-Herald CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Although taking no action Thursday, members of the Senate Committee on Education discussed at length a bill that seeks to require schools to provide elective courses on religious texts. Senate Bill 252, sponsored by Sens. Mike Azinger, R-Wood, and Sue Cline, R-Wyoming, seeks to require[Read More…]
Mingo Del. Marcum introduces PEIA bill in WV House
Staff reports Williamson Daily News CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia House of Delegates member Justin Marcum, D-Mingo, and others have introduced legislation to permanently fix PEIA. House Bill 4341 was drafted by Marcum and co-sponsored by McDowell County Delegate Ed Evans and Wayne County Delegates Robert Thompson and Ken Hicks. The[Read More…]
West Virginia greyhound funds targeted again
By JOSELYN KING The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register WHEELING, W.Va. — Senate leaders say a bill to defund the West Virginia Greyhound Development Fund likely won’t make it out of the gate this year after being vetoed by Gov. Jim Justice in 2017. Senate Majority Leader Ryan Ferns, R-Ohio; and[Read More…]
West Virginia Senate bill moves to Finance Committee
By DAVID BEARD The Dominion Post CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The Senate Judiciary Committee wrapped up its work on the intermediate appeals court bill on Feb. 1 and sent it on to the Finance Committee. The panel tacked on several amendments to SB 341 on Jan. 31, then reviewed the bill[Read More…]
