Charleston Gazette - Health insurance signups through the Affordable Care Act marketplace have risen to more than 10,600 individuals in West Virginia, according to numbers released Tuesday. Read Representatives for Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield, the only insurance company currently participating in the state's insurance marketplace, told the Gazette last month that 8,711 people had…
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Think Progress - If there's one thing January's massive chemical spill in West Virginia taught Jeremy Richardson, it's this: no matter what his power bill says every month, coal is "not cheap." Read "This was a chemical used to process coal," said Richardson, senior energy analyst and West Virginia specialist at the Union of Concerned…
WESA Public Radio - Policy and research groups from Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio have joined forces to urge their states' governors to adopt a common severance tax rate for companies drilling for gas and oil in the Marcellus and Utica Shale formations. Read The Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center, Policy Matters Ohio and the…
Clarksburg Exponent Telegram — Most individuals who don't have health insurance are down to about two weeks to sign up or face a penalty under the Affordable Care Act. Read March 31 is the end of the open enrollment period until November, said Brandon Merritt, health policy analyst for the West Virginia Center on Budget…
Pittsburgh Business Times - Policy groups in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia are advocating for a common approach to taxation on oil and gas drilling throughout the Marcellus and Utica shale plays. Read Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center, Policy Matters Ohio and West Virginia Center on Budget and Public Policy urged governors of each state…
The State Journal - Public policy groups in West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ohio are asking the governors of the three states to adopt West Virginia's severance tax on gas and oil. Read "Given our states' shared experience with natural gas and oil extraction, a common rate and structure of taxation would be a smart approach.…
Beaver County Times - Pennsylvania and Ohio should be more like West Virginia -- at least in terms of a severance tax on oil and gas, some policymakers and legislators say. Read Officials from Policy Matters Ohio, the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center and the West Virginia Center on Budget & Policy are arguing that…
West Virginia Public News Service - As lawmakers consider raising the state minimum wage, they're hearing from West Virginians who say that would help them and their children. Read Morgantown mother Jamie Gudiel works two low-wage retail jobs. Her husband works full-time at a low-wage landscaping position. She says one of the hardest parts of…
Logan Banner - U.S. Senator Jay Rockefeller successfully dispelled rumors of his passing Friday, February 28, during a visit to Christ Church United Methodist in downtown Charleston. Read The senator's pre-arranged meeting at the church was designed to reflect on Rockefeller's 50 years "of support for West Virginia families." When the senior Democrat senator, who…
Charleston Gazette - With an Aug. 22, 2015 deadline approaching for a share of $100 million in federal grants, the West Virginia Legislature is one step closer to implementing a work-share program in the Mountain State. Read House Bill 4409 creates a work-share program known as the Valued Employee Retention program in West Virginia. The program's…