Charleston Gazette-Mail - Cleaning out some notepads...Lost amidst interim meetings and the special session, the Tax Foundation, a right-leaning, pro-business organization, put out its annual Business Tax Climate Index, ranking West Virginia as having the 19th best tax climate. Read.
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PolitiFact, Charleston Gazette-Mail - The Democratic senator from West Virginia — where the opioid overdose death rate ranked highest in the nation in 2015 — connected the state's opioid use with its battered workforce. Read.
MetroNews - Moody's, one of the big three bond rating agencies, is giving a thumbs up to voter approval of West Virginia's $1.6 billion road bond issue. Read.
Huntington Herald-Dispatch - Only about half of West Virginia adults are working these days, and a quarter of those who do have jobs don't make much money. Read.
Clarksburg Exponent Telegram - Although many states have experienced significant decreases in the percentage of their populations who are living in poverty in recent years, West Virginia's poverty level remain largely unchanged, experts say. Read.
Huntington Herald-Dispatch - West Virginia has always been known as a place where people have to work incredibly hard in order to barely get by. Read.
Parkersburg News and Sentinel - A 2018 budget resolution that sets up tax reforms for the president was adopted Thursday in the House of Representatives with two of the three Republicans from West Virginia voting in favor. Read.
EcoWatch - It was supposed to be all about jobs. Read.
MetroNews - On the heels of last week's failed attempt to repeal former President Barack Obama's health care law, West Virginia conservatives are optimistic the U.S. Congress can pass a new tax policy that will bring economic growth to the state. Read.
MetroNews - Can West Virginia afford to borrow $1.6 billion for road construction? Read.