By Andrea Lannom The Register-Herald of Beckley CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Teachers and school personnel in all of the state’s 55 counties will continue their walkout Monday, the leadership of the two teacher unions announced Friday afternoon. “We have not seen appropriate progress on teachers, professional personnel and service personnel and that’s why we’re[Read More…]
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At the Capitol: WV teachers to continue walkout; two weeks left in session
By Phil Kabler For the West Virginia Press Association CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Having loomed over the legislative session for weeks, a statewide walkout of teachers and school service personnel came to fruition on the 44th day of the 2018 regular session, as thousands of red-clad protestors filled the state Capitol[Read More…]
Editorial: WV SB 474 sheds light on lawmakers’ fears of transparency; WV House should kill it
From The Register-Herald of Beckley: Consider it ironic that in introducing legislation to shield important facts from the public in regard to public projects funded through the taxpayer-supported road bond, lawmakers had shed light on their own fears of transparency. And that sums up Senate Bill 474, which would keep[Read More…]
Editorial: WV Senate thinking about ways to hide public information; House should dump SB 474
From The Charleston Gazette-Mail: If you want public information in the future, particularly if it involves spending on highways projects, don’t expect the West Virginia Senate to help you get it. The Senate this week sent to the House a bill (Senate Bill 474) to make contractors’ employee wage records[Read More…]
Transparency: What are WV lawmakers hiding with SB 474 bill?
From The Parkersburg News and Sentinel: Only a few short years ago, Republicans leading the charge toward a historic power shift in Charleston were promising a sharp turn away from the bad old days — the way things had always been done. My how times have changed. A hint of[Read More…]
Opinion: The impossible task of ‘fixing’ West Virginia’s PEIA
By MIKE MYER Editor The Intelligencer of Wheeling Many of the public school teachers on strike Thursday and Friday are as upset about health insurance premiums and benefits as they are regarding salaries. “Fix PEIA” — the Public Employees Insurance Agency — signs were common on the picket lines. But[Read More…]
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Procter & Gamble’s new plant up and running in WV Eastern Panhandle; 330 workers on job
By JIM MCCONVILLE The Journal of Martinsburg MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — It’s not your father’s manufacturing plant anymore.At Procter & Gamble’s new Tabler Station plant, technicians overseeing assembly line machinery have a somewhat different skill set than their factory forebears.“They’re not putting tops on a bottle, or dryer sheets into a[Read More…]
Editorial: Returning to stale old policies won’t fix West Virginia
From The Charleston Gazette-Mail, Daily Mail page: From the time Cass Gilbert’s grandiose state Capitol building in Charleston was first occupied in the 1930s, until the 2015 legislative session, Democrats had been the majority party in both legislative chambers of West Virginia’s state government. How well did that work out[Read More…]
Editorial: Disability Fraud Unit saves WV $8.1 million
From Bluefield Daily Telegraph: West Virginia’s Disability Fraud Unit is off to a strong start, having achieved more than $8.1 million in total savings for the Mountain State during its first two years of operation. The Cooperative Disability Investigations Unit, a partnership with the Social Security Administration, investigates suspicious or[Read More…]
