The state Senate Finance chairman isn’t buying Gov. Jim Justice’s pitch to follow up an automatic reduction in the personal income tax with another 5% on top of it. The governor made the pitch this past week at the state Culture Center, telling lawmakers, “I want to challenge you to ...
MORE COVERAGE: Senate Finance Chairman Eric Tarr, R-Putnam, questions whether the governor’s proposal is realistic. See The Dominion Post Sunday. Gov. Jim Justice has dared officials to embrace a personal income tax proposal that would result in financial effects beyond his ...
MORGANTOWN — There are places in Morgantown you might expect to find a tent. The meeting chamber in Morgantown City Hall isn’t among those places. And yet, there a tent sat Thursday afternoon. It was carried in and placed before members of the Morgantown Land Reuse and ...
A federal judge in Delaware has ordered a company owned by Gov. Jim Justice and his family to be moved toward a sale over a tangle of debt. U.S. District Judge Richard G. Andrews entered the order late last week. The order kicks into gear a forced sale of Bluestone Mineral Inc., a holding company in the Justices’ expansive business network. Shares of Bluestone Mineral “shall be sold to satisfy the judgment” in a form to be proposed by the parties to the court action within 30 days of the order. Bluestone Mineral is significant in that it isn’t just one of Justice’s ...
Who was the alpha dog who decided an image of the governor’s beloved pet should be on a taxpayer-funded mural meant to represent West Virginia’s culture and history? Randall Reid-Smith, secretary for Arts, Culture and History, led the decision-making process and thinks it was the right call. “People will always remember Babydog, and so that is creating history,” Reid-Smith said Tuesday on MetroNews’ “Talkline.” Reid-Smith said the mural project was approved by the Capitol Building Commission more than a decade ago. More recently, the secretary said, an ad hoc ...
Morgantown City Council approved pay raises for future mayors and council members. The second reading of an ordinance that would increase per-meeting pay from $250 to $350 for council members and from $350 to $450 for the mayor was passed in a 6-1 vote during the council’s meeting ...
