By LACIE PIERSON The Herald-Dispatch CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The West Virginia Legislature on Thursday completed its work on a bill that establishes standards and practices for a medical marijuana industry in the Mountain State. The West Virginia House of Delegates agreed to some of the technical changes made to Senate Bill[Read More…]
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Medical marijuana bill heads to WV Gov. Justice
Staff report Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The West Virginia House of Delegates has accepted minor, technical changes the state Senate made Wednesday to a bill permitting doctors to recommend medical marijuana to patients and establishing a regulatory system in the state. Thursday, during an evening floor session, the House[Read More…]
State Senate votes to terminate Women’s Commission
By JIM ROSS The State Journal CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The state Senate on Thursday approved a House bill that terminates the Women’s Commission. The measure passed 24-10, with all nay votes coming from Democrats, although none spoke in opposition. The two women in the Senate stood and supported the bill.[Read More…]
WV Senate joins House in passing bill to kill Women’s Commission
By ERIN BECK Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Given about $40,000 a year in 1977 and charged with improving “the broad status of women in society,” the West Virginia Women’s Commission was called by some a “program to fail” at the time. Forty years later, both the House and Senate[Read More…]
Environment groups criticize coal, gas legislation
By JIM ROSS The State Journal CHARLESTON — Representatives of several environmental groups say the West Virginia Legislature has allowed the coal and natural gas industries to relax some environmental standards without allowing the people most affected by those changes to have any input. Three bills are on the groups’[Read More…]
Digital project ‘100 Days in Appalachia’ takes closer look at Trump country
By JOHN DAHLIA The Fairmont News MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — It’s 3 p.m. Thursday on the fourth floor of West Virginia University’s Reed College of Media Innovation Center. A handful of modern millennial and some old-school media scholars crowd a pristine conference room. The clear, glass walls can’t contain the overflow[Read More…]
WV Senate passes bill to lessen authority of HEPC
By JAKE JARVIS Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The West Virginia Senate on Thursday approved a bill to lessen the authority of the Higher Education Policy Commission, a move that would give greater leeway to colleges’ own governing boards. With only a brief overview of the bill’s implications, Senators voted[Read More…]
Common Core, Smarter Balanced nixed as Justice’s K-12 bill advances
By RYAN QUINN Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The Senate Education Committee on Thursday passed a version of the governor’s education bill that would now also ban Common Core standards and the current Smarter Balanced standardized tests. It could be amended on the Senate floor today. Gov. Jim Justice’s bill[Read More…]
WV House of Delegates approves budget, revenue bills
By RUSTY MARKS The State Journal CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Members of the West Virginia House of Delegates passed a budget bill Wednesday, April 5 following more than three hours of sometimes heated debate. Delegate Eric Nelson, R-Kanawha, chairman of the House Finance Committee, said the original general revenue budget proposed by[Read More…]
SNAP asset test bill ‘effectively killed’ in WV House
By LORI KERSEY Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A bill that would have imposed an asset test on food stamp recipients in West Virginia is effectively dead for the legislative session, a lobbyist who’s been working against the legislation said. Senate Bill 60 would have, among other things, limited assistance from the[Read More…]
