The House Energy Committee had a vigorous discussion and then advanced a bill that would define standards for community programs to monitor and analyze information about air quality. Aspects of HB 5018 that drew criticism would place limits on how that air quality information is ...
CHARLESTON — West Virginia faces a $114 million Medicaid gap along with a proposal to fill it, but the Senate Finance chairman is concerned about financial consequences down the line. Medicaid is a joint federal and state program that helps cover medical costs for some people with ...
Don Blankenship, political lightning rod and former coal titan who spent a year in jail on a mine safety conspiracy conviction, is running as a Democrat for U.S. Senate. This is the seat that Senator Joe Manchin, an independent-minded mainstay of West Virginia Democratic politics, has ...
The House Judiciary Committee advanced a couple of bills affecting West Virginia election laws. The bills were left over from a Judiciary Committee agenda earlier in the week when other topics went long and delegates couldn’t get to the election policies. HB 4017 would make several ...
The first speaker at a public hearing on opening West Virginia’s obscenity laws to prosecution of library representatives read right away from a book describing oral sex, and that set a tone for the House Chamber discussion of what is or isn’t appropriate material. “This is for our ...
CHARLESTON — The race for Attorney General in West Virginia is shaping up. State Auditor J.B. McCuskey, state Sen. Mike Stuart, both Republicans, filed for the May 14 primary this week while Wheeling attorney Teresa Toriseva said Tuesday on MetroNews “Talkline” she’ll seek the ...