Maya Angelou said, “History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.” And it takes courage to study and try to understand history. I heard a West Virginia school teacher say at a public hearing just this week that where one’s ...
MORGANTOWN – An effort to yank some teeth from the Anti-Racism Act led to a contentious debate on the House floor Thursday afternoon. Feathers also ruffled during deliberations on the bill to regulate learning pods and microschools. The Anti-Racism Act is SB 498. It was on second ...
MORGANTOWN – In the wee hours of Wednesday morning, when most folks were snug in their beds, House Judiciary wrapped up one of its famous marathon meetings – grinding out two controversial bills between midnight and 2 a.m. One of them is the so-called anti-CRT bill. The other puts ...
The Legislature’s regular session ends Saturday, and there are two bills we’d like to see keep going and one that desperately needs to die. If HB 4252 sounds familiar, it’s because we keep talking about it. This bill makes three important changes to state code regarding insulin ...
MORGANTOWN – The House Education Committee followed up an early Monday public hearing on the Senate's Anti-Racism Act – with speakers overwhelmingly against it – with two hours of debate and passage of a scaled-down version. That version will go to House Judiciary where the House's ...
Wednesday was cross-over day at the Legislature, where any bill that didn’t come out of its chamber of origin is now considered dead. Fortunately, some proposed legislation made it from one chamber to the other in time to escape a bureaucratic death. Unfortunately, some proposed ...