MORGANTOWN – Gov. Jim Justice topped a long list of State of the State legislative proposals with a 50% personal income tax cut. Justice addressed a joint gathering of the House and Senate and other state officials in the House chamber Wednesday evening, the first day of the 2023 ...
MORGANTOWN — COVID hospitalizations have tripled since Thanksgiving, a new variant is on the loose, and Gov. Jim Justice is rebranding his twice-weekly briefings in acknowledgement of the new normal. COVID hospitalizations stood at 360 on Wednesday, up from 114 on Nov. 23, the day before ...
MORGANTOWN – Gov. Jim Justice took his “food fight” – as he's been calling it – with the Senate over Amendment 2 to another level on Thursday. Speaking from Independence Hall in Wheeling, he elevated his traveling community conversations on the issue to a statewide address; ...
MORGANTOWN – Gov. Jim Justice on Monday added his 2 cents to the raging debate about the CDC's latest COVID vaccine action, and took another swipe in the Amendment 2 battle. Last Thursday, the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted to add approved COVID-19 vaccines to ...
MORGANTOWN – Senate President Craig Blair and Finance chair Eric Tarr called on Gov. Jim Justice on Tuesday to include them in his public forums on Amendment 2, the Property Tax Modernization Amendment. Justice said during his COVID briefing that won't happen. Justice has so far held two ...
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 ...