MORGANTOWN – Talks on the latest version of President Biden’s Build Back Better stalled this week after Sen. Joe Manchin expressed his concerns about record inflation and how the bill […]
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Nov. 14 letters to the editor
New text campaign feeds conspiracies Warning! Do not be fooled by the doublespeak in Secretary of State Mac Warner’s announcement of his office’s new “See Something, Text Something” campaign, using […]
Manchin explains his position on Build Back Better to West Virginia reporters
MORGANTOWN – Sen. Joe Manchin talked with members of the West Virginia press on Tuesday, following up on his “enough is enough” statement on Monday about House progressives holding the […]
Manchin urges House to pass infrastructure bill and stop holding it hostage for Build Back Better
MORGANTOWN – Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., on Monday urged his Congressional colleagues to pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill and quit holding it hostage for Manchin’s vote on the Build Back […]
Capito fields questions on Build Back Better, inflation under President Biden
MORGANTOWN – Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., fielded questions from members of the West Virginia press Thursday. Several of them dealt with the newly scaled-down Build Back Better framework and […]
Local leaders promote green energy portion of Biden’s scaled-down Build Back Better framework
MORGANTOWN – As President Biden came before America Thursday morning to outline his scaled-down Build Back Better framework, some local delegates and other leaders had gathered at the WVU law […]
Oct. 24 letters to the editor
Great teachers make for great schools I have been a resident of Morgantown all of my life. I was educated in the Monongalia County Schools and at West Virginia University […]
What else is in the Build Back Better Act?
by Michael Hiltzik EDITOR’S NOTE: This column is continued from “People talk about the cost of that big federal bill …,” published yesterday, Oct. 18. Child care and families The […]
People talk about the cost of that big federal bill but don’t know what’s in it
by Michael Hiltzik The most glaring flaw in media coverage of Washington is that it focuses heavily on process and seldom on substance. That’s certainly been the case with coverage […]
Democrats need to prioritize, not give fiscal evasions
As they prepare to spend $1.2 trillion on a bipartisan infrastructure deal, along with a vastly larger sum on a party-line social-policy bill, Democrats might be expected to defend their […]
