Early last week, the Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against James “Jay” Justice II (Gov. Jim Justice’s son and current CEO of Bluestone Coal Sales Corp.) and 13 of the Justice family’s coal companies for roughly $7.6 million unpaid fines and fees. From 2018 to ...
Gov. Jim Justice and Senate President Craig Blair are headed for a showdown — or maybe a compromise — this special session on tax relief. Justice’s plan is straight forward — a roughly 10% reduction in personal income tax that would save taxpayers about $250 million. Justice sees ...
Last thing downtown needs is a gun shop I’d wager that my fiancée and I live closest to the potential site of Big Daddy Guns of almost any reader: a less than five-minute walk around the corner. So naturally, we had some curiosity about our new neighbors. And some disappointment as ...
This past Wednesday, Gov. Jim Justice scoffed at a WalletHub ranking that put West Virginia’s economy last overall in the nation. Specifically, he called it “political garbage” from a “bunch of liberal fruitcakes.” While Justice likes to brag about the state’s surpluses (which ...
Earlier this month, Gov. Jim Justice asked the West Virginia National Guard and Department of Homeland Security to collect and send excess body armor to Ukraine and encouraged police departments across the state to participate. The Monongalia County Sheriff’s Department and West Virginia ...
Most of West Virginia — including Monongalia, Preston and Marion counties — is expected to experience heavy rain today and Friday. This could lead to flooding, especially flash-flooding in areas with saturated grounds and streams that are already higher than usual. “With the rain ...