Charleston Gazette - West Virginians who enrolled in health insurance plans incompatible with the Affordable Care Act before its onset will now have three more years to choose a new plan, according to the state's insurance chief. Read West Virginia Insurance Commissioner Mike Riley said Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin made the decision to extend the…
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Wheeling Intelligencer - Each morning at Weirton Middle School, students start the day with a muffin and fruit or a breakfast burrito, then proceed to their classroom for 20 minutes of accelerated reading while they eat, according to Hancock County Schools Superintendent Suzan Smith. Read Across West Virginia, school students are taking in a slice…
West Virginia Metro News — Two advocates for more efficient government spending in West Virginia say tax credits for economic development projects should be viewed the same way as direct spending in the budget because such credits eliminate revenues that could have otherwise been collected. Read "There's nothing wrong with them (tax credits) if they're…
The Legislative Gazette (NY) - Researchers from states that are experienced with hydraulic fracturing released a collaborative report on how gas drilling has affected four counties in the United States and made recommendations to states considering allowing fracking within their borders. Read Authors of the report found the counties highlighted in the report were not…
The State Journal - Wetzel County has always been a producer of natural gas, but a boom in the Marcellus Shale gas drilling really put it on the map for the Mountain State. Read Since 2008, the county at the base of the Northern Panhandle saw an increase in drilling by 6,000 percent. A recent…
Wheeling Intelligencer - The impact of the natural gas boom in Wetzel County - both good and bad - pales in comparison to other Tri-State area counties also experiencing a surge in drilling activity, according to a report released Thursday by the Multi-State Shale Research Collaborative. Read The report includes case studies from Wetzel County…
Charleston Gazette, The Republic, WOUB Public Media, Huntington Herald-Dispatch - Lack of information about economic development subsidies hurt West Virginia's score in the 2014 edition of the U.S. Public Interest Group's annual report on transparency in government spending in the 50 states. Read For a second year in a row, West Virginia on Tuesday received…
Bloomberg BusinessWeek - Natalie Tennant, the presumptive Democratic nominee for West Virginia's open U.S. Senate seat, got an earful visiting a company where workers said President Barack Obama's environmental policies threaten their jobs. Read "I'll fight it," Tennant said of a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rule affecting coal-fired power plants during a campaign stop at…
The New Yorker - On the morning of Thursday, January 9, 2014, the people of Charleston, West Virginia, awoke to a strange tang in the air off the Elk River. It smelled like licorice. The occasional odor is part of life in Charleston, the state capital, which lies in an industrial area that takes flinty…
Charleston Gazette - In the weeks leading up to the enrollment deadline, more West Virginians signed up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act than in previous months, according to Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield, the state's only insurer participating in the exchange. Read As of the March 31 deadline, 20,131 people had enrolled…