The News Center - An analyst with the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy answers the question why is West Virginia so poor? Read.
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Beckley Register-Herald - As the Legislature starts back Monday in its special session, up for discussion will be lowering the personal income tax, broadening the base of the sales tax or a combination of the two. Read.
Huntington Herald-Dispatch - Affordable health care is essential not only for the health of the people of West Virginia but to maintain the steady rise of the fastest growing, highest paying jobs in the state, assure financial stability and grow the economy of the state. Read.
Charleston Gazette-Mail - Sumer Cave's mother lost the ability to speak before she died. Read.
CNN - Journalism, already under attack by the Trump administration, became a literal target in West Virginia when on Tuesday, a reporter named Dan Heyman of Public News Service was arrested at the state Capitol while trying to ask a pointed question of Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price, who was visiting with White House adviser Kellyanne Conway --…
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.
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.