by Doyle McManus The Democrats’ sprawling voting rights bill, known on Capitol Hill as HR 1, is dead. Officially, the bill is still clinging to life. But Sen. Joe Manchin III of West Virginia, the majority party’s stubbornly maverick 50th vote, signed its writ of execution recently, ...
MORGANTOWN -- Morgantown City Council will take up a resolution supporting the federal passage of the For the People Act (H.R.1). Currently before Congress, the bill would expand voting rights, change campaign finance laws to limit the influence of money on elections, limit ...
The new U.S. Census figures have set the stage for congressional musical chairs in West Virginia. The decline in population here and the growth in other states translates into the loss of one of the state’s three congressional seats. The three seats are currently occupied by ...
MORGANTOWN -- Monongalia County Commissioner Tom Bloom said the Monday evening phone call was unexpected, but welcome. “I received a phone call late Monday night and was invited by Sen. Manchin’s office to see if I would represent the state of West Virginia and him as his virtual ...
MORGANTOWN — Sen. Shelley Moore Capito met virtually with members of the West Virginia press on Thursday to talk about President Biden's American Jobs Plan infrastructure bill and a few other issues. Capito, R-W.Va., offered mixed reviews of the plan, a position shared by her GOP ...
MORGANTOWN -- The hills will be alive with the sound of activism Saturday across West Virginia. Music, too. Concerts will be held simultaneously in Morgantown, Charleston and Martinsburg, as part of a lobbying campaign for the THRIVE Act, which U.S. Congress is expected to take up when ...