West Virginia Public Broadcasting - Senate President Mitch Carmichael believes lawmakers are getting close to a budget deal after taking a 10-day recess from the special budget session called by Gov. Jim Justice at the beginning of the month. Read.
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MetroNews - A personal income tax reduction discussed as part of a state budget package is likely to be scaled back to about a 20 percent reduction over a three-year period, a senator said today. Read.
Manila Bulletin, PHYSC.ORG - Chuck Nelson spent 30 years underground in nearly every mining job available but today he is in no doubt about it: "There is no future in coal." Read.
The Daily Mail, The China Post - When Donald Trump promised hopeful voters in Charleston, West Virginia to bring back mining jobs to the heart of American coal country, out-of-work miner Craig Branham was all ears. Read.
State Journal, Exponent Telegram - It wasn't as if he hadn't tried to warn them. Read.
Gazette-Mail - Editor: I want to thank Phil Kabler for some excellent, cut-to-the-core reporting during the past legislative session. Read.
Beckley Register-Herald - The U.S. House of Representatives voted Thursday, 217-213, to eliminate many provisions of the Affordable Care Act, a move House Speaker Paul Ryan called "the beginning of the end of Obamacare." Read.
Fashion - I had only been in West Virginia for a day when Josh Sword, the head of the state AFL-CIO, told me casually that a revolution is coming. Read.
Associated Press, U.S. News & World Report, Washington Times, Bluefield Daily Telegraph- West Virginia's House voted Friday to reject Senate-passed legislation to cut state income taxes and raise sales and corporate income taxes, despite other changes meant to soften its opposition. Read.
Beckley Register-Herald, Bluefield Daily Telegram - The U.S. House of Representatives voted Thursday, 217-213, to eliminate many provisions of the Affordable Care Act, a move House Speaker Paul Ryan called, "The beginning of the end of Obamacare." Read.