West Virginia Watch, Beckley Register-Herald, Times West Virginian, Charleston Gazette-Mail - West Virginia state agencies — in charge of schools, road repairs, foster care and more — along with the state Supreme Court have been asked by the Morrisey administration to cut their budgets by 2%. Read the full article. Additionally, an August memo from the Department…
Tax and Budget
West Virginia spends almost $870 less per student than the national average. For $288 million, we can increase spending to meet the national average and fund improvements to public schools across the state. There are currently 34 school districts that spend less per student than the national average. Investments in these school districts could fund…
WCHS - County jail bills continue to skyrocket, but revenues can't seem to keep up. Read the full article. It's an issue commissioners have brought to lawmakers for years. Kanawha County Commissioner Lance Wheeler said they're expecting a $1 million increase at minimum this year for their jail bill. "I don't believe those revenues are…
Charleston Gazette-Mail, Morgan Messenger - Diabetes, obesity and “seven pillars” of health care to combat them were the topic of a panel discussion Friday, which focused heavily on the $199.5 million in grants West Virginia is set to receive through the federal Rural Healthcare Transformation Fund. Read the full article. Facilitated as part of the…
Charleston Gazette-Mail - Gov. Patrick Morrisey often preaches what he calls “the fundamentals.” Read the full article. At a Charleston news conference Monday in which he proposed another personal income tax cut, a move expected to favor higher-income taxpayers, Morrisey defined “the fundamentals” as including cutting taxes and “inefficient” spending, plus “moving faster and faster.”…
For Immediate Release: January 8, 2026 Contact: Kenny Matthews, (304)-545-3953 CHARLESTON, WV — The West Virginia Criminal Law Reform Coalition is holding a press conference in the Little Rotunda East (off the California Street side of West Virginia State Capitol) at 10am on Monday, January 12 to underscore the ongoing crisis in our jails, the ineffectiveness of enhanced penalties, and the solutions…
Charleston Gazette-Mail - In West Virginia and across the country, families are facing an affordability crisis, one where the costs of life’s necessities are rising faster than wages. This is impacting many households’ ability to create a better, or even similar, life to the one their parents had. Read the full op-ed. There are many…
Huntington Herald-Dispatch - Gov. Patrick Morrisey on Monday detailed his plan to reduce the state’s income tax by assigning more specific percentages to his proposed reductions. Read the full article. “We’re going to work closely with the legislature on these numbers, but we’re looking at at least a 5-10% [reduction],” Morrisey said during a news…
Martinsburg Journal-News - With personal income tax cuts going into effect for 2026 in neighboring Kentucky and Ohio, Gov. Patrick Morrisey wants to move faster than West Virginia’s current glidepath for reducing personal income tax rates during the legislative session starting next week. Read the full article. During his first press conference of the new…
West Virginia News - Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s intention to pursue a 5 to 10 percent cut in West Virginia’s personal income tax rates in the upcoming legislative session has set the stage for a high-stakes fiscal debate. Building on a series of previous tax reductions, the move is championed as a necessary step to boost…