WVCBP in the News

May 14, 2017 by Ted Boettner
Rondalyn Whitney: Health Care Should be a Right for All

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.

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May 12, 2017 by Ted Boettner
WV Arrest Casts a Shadow Over the Constitution

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 --…

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May 10, 2017 by Ted Boettner
West Virginia Seeks Future – Without Coal

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.

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May 9, 2017 by Ted Boettner
Can West Virginia’s Coal Jobs Come Back?

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.

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May 5, 2017 by Ted Boettner
House Bill Narrowly Passes

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.

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