After the headline-grabbing stunts of previous years — including presenting legislators with a literal pile of feces and proffering Babydog’s rear-end for a celebrity’s smooch — Gov. Jim Justice’s final State of the State Address was almost surreal in its normalcy. Instead of ...
In a recent press briefing, Gov. Jim Justice said he’s open to the idea of continuing to coach basketball if he wins the U.S. Senate seat. After all, he said, he’s done it all through his governorship and he’s regularly gone back and forth from his Lewisburg home to Charleston for the ...
Gov. Jim Justice has made an art form out of speaking much but saying little, and his meaningless verbal abstractions were on full display at a news briefing earlier this month as he non-answered questions about West Virginia jails’ myriad problems. If you sifted through enough of the ...
It’s no secret Jim Justice’s finances are a mess. They’ve been the subject of reporting and court cases since before Justice became governor of West Virginia. And they’ve always come across as something between a drama and a tragedy: failing empires, shady deals and the ...
Why meet with DOH if nothing gets done? Why do the Monongalia County Commission meetings with the Division of Highways end in an impasse? Why even have meetings with no solutions? Stagnant minds are the greatest obstacles to progress. Just study the accomplishments of the “Greatest ...
There should not be a special session to address the jail staffing crisis. We don’t say this because we don’t support our state’s corrections officers. We say this because legislators shouldn’t be rewarded for failing to do their jobs. The West Virginia Division of ...