Clarksburg Exponent Telegram - The future of the Affordable Care Act as currently implemented will pivot on a ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of King vs. Burwell, and a decision is expected in June. ReadBut a ruling in favor of the plaintiff could cause considerable disruption in West Virginia and across…
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Charleston Gazette - The Kanawha County school board approved today approved a 2015-16 school year budget that gives across-the-board pay raises for teachers and service personnel and extends this semester's pay increases for middle and high school principals and assistant principals. ReadBoard members approved the budget on a 4-1 vote, with Pete Thaw voting against…
Clarksburg Exponent Telegram - Tax reform is a difficult proposition. If it were easy, we'd have done it years ago. ReadCurrently, the legislative Select Committee for Fair Taxation has held a couple of meetings in Charleston on reforming the state's tangled tax code and many county officials are holding their collective breath.The Charleston Gazette recently…
West Virginia Public News Service – Cash-strapped West Virginia counties are watching a special tax committee at the legislature with dread. ReadThe Joint Select Committee on Fair Taxation may consider cuts to severance and business inventory taxes. Both could land hard on the counties, which have already struggled with falling revenue for several years.Kanawha County…
Charleston Gazette - Hundreds more West Virginia miners were told Friday that they were being laid off, in the latest blow to the already deeply troubled Appalachian coal industry. ReadAlpha Natural Resources issued a statement announcing the "expected idling" of subsidiary Rockspring Development's Camp Creek underground mine and processing plant in Wayne County and had…
Wall Street Journal, Nasdaq - Coal miner Murray Energy Corp. on Friday said it would lay off as many as 1,829 workers at mines in Illinois, Ohio and West Virginia. ReadThe shedding of over 20% of the workforce at the nation's third biggest coal miner deals another harsh blow to the industry that is still…
West Virginia Public Broadcasting - A report released this month by the national Center on Budget and Policy Priorities looked at states across the country that cut their higher education budgets in the wake of the 2008 economic downturn. Read or listen. Three of 50 states did not make cuts to their systems during that time,…
The State Journal, WOWK-TV - A new report shows what it could mean if West Virginia continues to cut from higher education funding. Read According to the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy, while other states are restoring higher education funding, the Mountain State is cutting. As a result, tuitions have risen dramatically and…
The State Journal - A committee focused on studying the tax structure in the state met for the second time May 4. ReadThe committee heard from several experts, including two people who were on former Gov. Cecil Underwood's Commission on Fair Taxation. Calvin Kent, former economics professor at Marshall University was one of the co…
West Virginia Public News Service, Gilmer Free Press - Some West Virginia legislators want to get rid of the state personal income tax. But in Kansas, where that's being tried, economists are calling it a disaster. Over the last two and a half years, Kansas lawmakers slashed that state's income tax, starting at the top.…