dbeard@dominionpost.com MORGANTOWN – The state Senate Republican supermajority got a bit more super Tuesday night as the Democrats lost one of their three seats, shifting the balance from 31-3 to 32-2. Two Democrats were on the ballot on Tuesday and one of them lost, while a Marion ...
DBeard@DominionPost.com MORGANTOWN – West Virginia may be red, but the greater Morgantown area remains purple, with Republican and Democratic candidates scoring victories in contested state legislative races. Senate Democratic Marion County Delegate Joey Garcia faced Republican ...
dbeard@dominionpost.com MORGANTOWN – Gov. Jim Justice – and Babydog – came to Morgantown Monday for two ceremonial funding announcements: for WVU's Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute and for Mylan Park's KOA RV Resort and Campground project. Jim Justice and Ron Justice display the ...
MORGANTOWN – Only a handful of Morgantown-area legislative races are competitive this year. A look at their campaign finances suggests the advantages of incumbency – for candidates of both parties – and what it takes money-wise to make an impact. The numbers come from the candidates' ...
Now that college students are back on campus and classes are in full swing, let’s talk about campus carry — the shorthand for a slew of policies created by the Campus Self-Defense Act inflicted on our public universities by the West Virginia Legislature. We would understand the state ...
The West Virginia Legislature and Gov. Jim Justice have been effective tax cutters. In 2023, the Legislature passed a bill reducing the state’s five marginal tax rates by 21.25%. That law also put in place a formula whereby if certain financial benchmarks were met, the rates would ...