MORGANTOWN – An amendment to a bill making some tweaks to state homeschooling law plunged the House of Delegates into a 90-minute debate about child abuse prevention, the failures of Child Protective Services and potential harm to homeschooling families. HB 5180 is the bill. It adds ...
MORGANTOWN — A bill to prohibit racial discrimination based on hair textures and hairstyles narrowly passed out Senate Judiciary last Thursday, only to be sent to Senate Finance on Friday. Many believed it was sent there to die, and die it did, Senate Finance chair Eric Tarr confirmed on ...
MORGANTOWN – The House Education Committee crammed a wham-bam 9-minute meeting between floor sessions on Monday – approving two Senate student-hunger bills and a Senate PROMISE Scholarship bill without debate. SB 162 is the Summer Feeding for All Program, for schools to find ...
MORGANTOWN – The House of Delegates passed a human smuggling bill on Monday, but opponents objected that it places trafficking and smuggling on the same level and denies trafficking victims the right to restitution. Across the Capitol, the Senate moved bills regarding parental surrogacy, ...
The news can leave you depressed and politics can send your blood pressure through the roof — which is why most people tune out both. (If you’re reading this, you’re probably an exception.) We can rarely avoid the endless campaign ads on TV and radio, so every election season, we get ...
A recent commentary (DP-02-11-24) discussed the choices we have in responding to today’s political turmoil. We can be fatalistic. Or, “we can look at it as a call to action.” The League chooses to act. Voting is the most powerful act in our republic. Are you registered to vote? We ...