Gov. Jim Justice and the Legislature need to check their numbers before they send West Virginia into a financial tailspin. Right now, the state is looking at some very expensive […]
Tag: surplus
No ‘critical needs’? Look again
West Virginia ended Fiscal Year 2023 with a $1.847 billion surplus — which is a lot less impressive when you consider the “surplus” is the result of artificially low budgets, […]
Highways could be priority for W.Va. remaining fiscal surplus
West Virginia’s state government finished the fiscal year with a $1.8 billion surplus and still has $451 million of that unappropriated. A large portion of what remains to be appropriated […]
Feb. 5 letters to the editor
Anti-trans is anti-Scripture There is a growing list of anti-trans bills introduced by the West Virginia Legislature targeting transgender persons’ access to medical care, job opportunities and human rights. Several […]
Jan. 22 letters to the editor
Thanks for making MLK Day event a success On behalf of the Community Coalition for Social Justice, I want to thank everyone who made our 17th Annual Martin Luther King […]
Tax cuts would line richest’s pockets, drain state coffers
Yesterday, Gov. Jim Justice’s personal income tax cut, introduced as HB 2526, passed the House of Delegates and moved on to the Senate, where we’re sure it will undergo some […]
Jan. 8 letters to the editor
Let’s create jobs cleaning up old mines A lot of work remains to be done to reclaim abandoned mine lands in West Virginia. Before passage of the Surface Mining Control […]
Editorial Encore: More money, same problems: Where to use the surplus
EDITOR’S NOTE: We took a look into our editorial archive to see what was on our minds this time last year — and found that it was many of the […]
Money, money, money: State’s surplus continues to grow
The surplus money just keeps piling up in West Virginia’s treasury. The just-released revenue figures for the first four months of the 2023 fiscal year show the state has collected […]
Aug. 7 letters to the editor
Ignoring something won’t make it go away In response to the editorial of Sunday, July 31, I believe it is indulging in a logical fallacy: to ignore something in hopes […]
