Gazette-Mail - State Senate President Mitch Carmichael said Friday that lawmakers are looking into a proposal that would eliminate West Virginia's personal income tax and raise the consumer sales tax. Read.
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MetroNews - Statewide organizations have a dozen legislative agenda items for state lawmakers to consider during the 2017 Regular Legislative Session. Read.
State Journal - Public interest groups are organizing resistance to a rumored sale of an aging West Virginia coal-fired power plant to Monongahela Power and its sister agency, Potomac Edison. Read.
Media Matters - While much of the media coverage of the debate over the repeal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has missed the boat, West Virginia's Register-Herald published an in-depth article on the implications of the repeal of the health law, providing a model of the best practices all other media outlets should emulate moving forward. Read.
MetroNews - A Wheeling mom, standing on the steps of the state Capitol, said she wants a "viable" health care plan to help her 6 year old autistic son. Read.
Register-Herald - According to a new West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy (WVCBP) report, repealing the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) would have far-reaching effects in the Mountain State. Read.
West Virginia Public Broadcasting - West Virginia's economy has a "chicken and egg" problem. Listen.
Herald-Dispatch - Whether they're related biologically or by choice, West Virginians are turning the Women's March on Washington into a family affair. Read.
Charleston Gazette-Mail - The fight to preserve health insurance for children in West Virginia is coming, said Renate Pore, interim executive director of the advocacy group West Virginians for Affordable Health Care on Friday. Read.
The Herald-Dispatch - Faculty and staff at Marshall University engaged in a discussion about how West Virginia's budget shortfall could affect them and how they could get more involved in the legislative process during a presentation from the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy and the Protect West Virginia Coalition on Wednesday afternoon. Read.