MetroNews - Incoming state Senate President Mitch Carmichael says he was surprised Governor-elect Jim Justice reacted the way he did when Carmichael put out a news release Thursday backing Justice's campaign statements about no tax increases. Read.
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The Exponent Telegram - 2016 is officially over, but that doesn't mean it is still of no consequence. Read. Read.
MetroNews - West Virginia's gasoline tax drops by another penny to 32.2 cents per gallon today, and that isn't especially good news for the state's roads. Read.
Public News Service - West Virginia faces huge budget shortfalls, but a new poll says voters are willing to pay more taxes to maintain roads, schools and other state services. Read.
The State Journal - Every year for the past five years, Sean O'Leary of the West Virginia Center on Budget & Policy has worked on a report detailing the status of poverty in West Virginia. Read.
The Charleston Gazette-Mail - Despite recent U.S. economic growth and a low unemployment rate, retail sales this holiday season indicate customers aren't quite confident enough to go on a spending spree just yet. Read.
Huntington Herald-Dispatch - A poll conducted by the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy might be at odds with state leaders as to how the state's budget should be balanced. Read.
The State Journal - West Virginia's economy is so bad that 70 percent of state residents may be willing to pay more taxes to help fix it, a poll conducted for the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy suggests. Read.
The Exponent Telegram - The West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy released its ninth annual study on the state of working West Virginia last week — and the findings were not good. Read.
HuntingtonNews - An analysis of new government data by U.S. PIRG found that big banks made $4.8 billion in overdraft fee income in the first three quarters of 2016, up nearly 4% from the same period in 2015. Read.