WOWK - On this week’s episode of Inside West Virginia Politics, we go “back to the island” with an island-themed fundraiser for CAMC. Read the full article. In Segment One, we talk to Attorney General Patrick Morrisey (R-WV) about the HALT Fentanyl Act. In Segment Two, we talk to Del. Daniel Linville (R-Cabell) about economic…
Tax and Budget
Higher Ed Dive - West Virginia University announced Wednesday a merger of its College of Creative Arts and the Reed College of Media, heralding it as a “creative and innovative collaboration.” Read the full article. But in the same breath it cast the consolidation as inventive, it acknowledged it was staring down “a challenging collegiate landscape,” which…
The Intermountain - West Virginia University has been facing financial challenges for years. This year it will be dealing with a projected $45 million deficit. According to one in-state think tank, lawmakers dropped the ball by failing to maintain steadier state funding for higher education over the past few years. Read the full article. The…
WOWK - West Virginia University is dealing with a serious budget short fall, but right now there is no agreement on how to fix it. There is plenty of finger-pointing going on, and that means a solution is not on the table right now. Read the full article. As West Virginia University gears up for…
WTRF - The West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy has been holding meetings across the Mountain State to educate communities on the state’s finances and where state dollars are going. Read the full article. Monday night the presentation made its way to Ohio County to inform about how one-time monies like severance taxes, for…
In West Virginia over 95 percent of fire departments are staffed by volunteers or mostly volunteers. Volunteer Fire Departments (VFDs) protect 85 percent of the state’s population serving as the bedrock of first response across our state. Despite the clear need to keep these life-saving services available, VFDs have seen stagnant state funding that has failed…
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WBOY - A representative from the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy (WVCBP) held a meeting at the Morgantown Public Library downtown this evening. Read the full article. Much of the meeting spoke about how the state does not have a surplus of money in its budget and how the loss of the…
Charleston Gazette-Mail - West Virginia politics is a bundle of contradictions, as we’ve seen recently. Read the full article. At roughly the same time Gov. Jim Justice was lauding the latest state budget surplus figures (made possible by hilariously low-balled revenue estimates), legislators were hearing about how multiple state agencies, notably Highways and DHHR, owe…
West Virginia Public Broadcasting - Higher coal and natural gas prices, and higher demand for both generated a severance tax windfall that fattened the state’s budget surplus last year. But the prices for both fossil fuels have declined in recent months. Read the full article. Sean O’Leary, senior policy analyst for the West Virginia Center…