CHARLESTON — The newly shaped leadership team for the House of Delegates includes new chairmen of the key Finance and Education committees. The announcements were made Tuesday morning by Speaker Roger Hanshaw, R-Clay. Delegate Eric Householder, R-Berkeley, will lead the powerful ...
MORGANTOWN —The Public Employees Insurance Agency (PEIA) Finance Board came to Morgantown Monday evening for a public hearing. About 75 people turned out; 16 addressed the board, urging a long-term funding fix, fairness for patients seeking out-of-state care, and a severance tax ...
WESTOVER — Westover City Council unanimously voted to amend its franchise agreements with two internet providers during its most recent meeting. Council eliminated the conduit rental fee for ClearFiber and removed language attempting to requirement Comcast to use its conduits. Both companies will pay 5 percent gross annual revenue to the city. City Attorney Tim Stranko explained that federal law prohibits the city from requiring that the internet companies use the city’s conduit lines. Stranko said both companies are welcome to use the city’s line if they want to but that ...
MORGANTOWN — Sometimes you had to listen closely when Bob Elliott was on Morgantown radio back in the 1970s and ‘80s. Not because he was soft-spoken, no sir. The guy had a big, rumbling baritone (except when he would dissolve into laughter on the air and the guffaws would go up an ...
MORGANTOWN — According to an estimate from the West Virginia Tax Office, a 1 percent municipal sales tax would generate between $5 million and $6 million annually for the City of Morgantown. While it has yet to do so, Morgantown was granted the authority to implement such a tax as part of ...
KINGWOOD — Preston Commissioners voted to exonerate the county of $60,785.36 in property taxes the assessor says it owes on the former Kinney Shoe property. A year ago, Assessor Connie Ervin told Commissioners Craig Jennings, Dave Price and Don Smith she was assessing the county for ...
