Today marks the start of the West Virginia Legislature’s regular session. “The time that we’ll spend here in the next 60 days together goes by really, really quickly,” House Speaker […]
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State Senate GOP, Dem leaders urge DHHR to address child welfare problems
MORGANTOWN — Leaders on both sides of the state Senate aisle want the Department of Health and Human Resources to take action to improve child welfare, and sent letters this […]
W.Va. senator to sponsor eugenics bill
Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat its mistakes. Unless, of course, they don’t think history’s “mistakes” are actually mistakes. At a meeting with Mineral County […]
W.Va. GOP fixated on the ‘W’ in ‘WIC’
Where to even begin? Let us set the scene: It’s Dec. 15, and the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources tweets out an image of two men (ostensibly […]
Coal towns left behind by empty promise
One of the few good things to come out of the West Virginia Legislature this past year has been nothing more than an empty promise. In 2021, the Legislature cobbled […]
Lawmakers gear up for another book ban fight?
Piggybacking off this past year’s law mandating teachers catalogue classroom libraries and provide that information to parents or guardians on request, some lawmakers are already preparing for a possible book […]
Remove marital exemption from sexual abuse law
It’s the year 2022, and somehow we are still equivocating over when sexual assault and/or abuse is acceptable. Monongalia County Prosecutor Perri Jo DeChristopher addressed legislators Monday and asked them […]
Post-election party switches a betrayal of voters’ trust
Less than a month after the midterm elections, the West Virginia Legislature’s Republican supermajority added one more member. Not through any democratic process, mind you, but because Putnam County Sen. […]
Putnam County Democrat Sen. Glenn Jeffries switches parties, grows GOP supermajority
MORGANTOWN — The state Senate Republican mega-majority grew another notch on Thursday, as Putnam County Democrat Sen. Glenn Jeffries announced a party switch. “I have the greatest respect for the […]
Legislators hear pitch for a Hazmat Good Samaritan law for manufacturers to aid emergency response
MORGANTOWN – While the recent elections highlighted divisions among West Virginia’s leadership and electorate, legislators on both sides of the aisle found common ground with the manufacturing community on the […]
