By Charles Boothe, Bluefield Daily Telegraph
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A bill now in a Senate committee would hit the newspaper industry financially by reducing the rates for legal advertisements.
Community newspapers provide a means for government entities to meet the requirement to publicize meetings, hearings and many other actions being considered.
It is a way of informing the public of things that may impact them, from a new economic development to property back taxes owed to changes in regulations.
Senate Bill 583, which was introduced this week and sponsored by Sen. Jack David Woodrum, R-Summers County, is now in the Committee on Government Organization.
Woodrum is Chair of that committee…
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