MORGANTOWN — The building has been repaired and renovated. The property has been rebranded. And now the former Woodburn school-turned Woodburn Community Complex has a reconfigured leadership team. During its last regular session, Morgantown City Council approved changes to Article ...
West Virginia officials continue to discuss a major income tax cut, even as they’re also balancing additional expenses for state government. House Speaker Roger Hanshaw described recent discussions about a possible income tax cut as “transformative.” “We don’t want to do something that’s not truly impactful. We’re talking about how do we take a step here that makes West Virginia grab national headlines and say to the world, ‘This is a place where you want to move and work remotely or move and locate your business or move and retire or simply choose to be here,” ...
MORGANTOWN — Here is a sampling of bills introduced on Friday, Jan. 20. Local sponsors and co-sponsors, if any, are noted. HB 2847, to impose a life sentence on fentanyl dealers; Delegate Geno Chiarelli, R-Monongalia, lead sponsor. HB 2849, to change the date of local school board ...
The Westover Town Hall council chamber was standing room only for Thursday's Board of Zoning Appeals meeting as dozens of Westover residents and business owners came to express their opinions on a recent application filed by McCulla Funeral Home to build a crematorium on their property. In ...
Delegates sent an income tax cut bill rocketing out on a 95-2 vote toward the Senate, where the Finance Committee chairman says it has no chance of survival. House Finance Chair Vernon Criss said the dominant passage vote in that chamber should send a message. “It’s once in a lifetime or a generation that we are able to send to the Senate a resounding message of that size a vote that we are very concerned about doing personal income tax responsibly over the next three years of 50% with the goal at some point to take it to zero,” Criss, R-Wood, said after Wednesday’s ...
Lawmakers are back to debating the appropriate duration of the governor’s emergency powers, and delegates are advancing a bill that would give legislators more say-so. How long an emergency declaration by the governor should remain in effect has been a running debate among lawmakers for years now. That’s because the emergency declaration that Gov. Jim Justice established in 2020 over the COVID-19 pandemic lasted until he finally proclaimed it would end at the beginning of this year. The Senate and House of Delegates addressed emergency powers in 2021 with two different ...
