The State Journal - The Center on Budget and Policy released a report May 1 that shows West Virginia isn't the only state making cuts to higher education. Read However, the Mountain State only stands in front of Wyoming in how much those cuts are over the last school year. West Virginia, according to the…
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The State Journal - On April 23, the Our Children, Our Future Campaign released a new report it's using to urge Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin to re-consider his line item veto of over $1 million in early childhood programs. Read The group is hoping to convince the governor to include in a special session the…
Beckley Register-Herald - Celena Roby has spent the last six years looking over her shoulder just in case she sees him — the man who abused her for 11 years and who held her captive in a bathroom while her two children begged him not to hurt their mother. She left home with her two…
Morgantown Dominion-Post and InsuranceNewsNet.com - "We are failing our kids in West Virginia. But we do not have to." Read That grim assessment is the opening line of a report "Child Poverty in West Virginia: A Growing and Persistent Problem," released last year by the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy. The report is…
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…
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…