MORGANTOWN – House of Delegates Speaker Roger Hanshaw announced late Friday afternoon that he will contact House members next week to call them back into session on Sept. 12 – corresponding with the regularly scheduled interim committee meetings. The Senate and House had both adjourned ...
MORGANTOWN — The ACLU of West Virginia is suing the state Senate president and three others on behalf of a Greenbrier County woman who alleges she was unlawfully ejected from the Senate chamber for attempting to record deliberations on the special session abortion law bill. The ACLU ...
MORGANTOWN — The July special session to take up tax cut and abortion law legislation paused after five days, failing to achieve its aims. Many complained about wasted money — $35,000 per day, with something over $20,000 of that going to legislator pay. The complaints prompted us to ...
MORGANTOWN — Republican state Senators are hopeful that voters will approve Amendment 2 in November and set the Senate GOP tax reduction plan in motion. Four proposed amendments to the state Constitution will be on the ballot. Amendment 2 is called the Property Tax Modernization ...
MORGANTOWN – Gov. Jim Justice and his team said on Monday that the nation has passed the hump of the BA.5 COVID surge and West Virginia will soon reach the peak and head down. Justice also fielded questions about the still-paused special session on taxes and abortion law, and about his ...
MORGANTOWN — Gov. Jim Justice's Tuesday COVID briefing offered some insights on “rebound phenomenon,” but also veered into musings on last week's special session that produced neither of the bills it was called to pass. Special session Justice called the session to deal with his ...