Public News Service - West Virginia's teachers' union warns that new proposed tax cuts will further shrink school budgets and drive more educators out of the profession. A crippling number of vacancies are straining school operations, and the number of non-certified teachers that have left their jobs has doubled since 2018, according to the state's…
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Mountain State Spotlight, Beckley Register-Herald, Times West Virginian - Earlier this month, when lawmakers were still preparing to come to Charleston for the legislative session, WVU Medicine Wheeling Hospital dropped a bombshell: it would stop taking the state’s public employees’ health insurance. Almost immediately, lawmakers promised action and on the first day of the session, state…
West Virginia News - Gov. Jim Justice is proposing a $4.884 billion state budget for Fiscal Year 2024. Read the full article. The governor’s budget contains $115 million for an average 5% pay raise for state employees, $59 million to increase reimbursement rates for the West Virginia Public Employees Insurgence Agency and $35 million to…
Associated Press, CBS News, WCHS, Telegraph, Herald-Standard- West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice’s budget proposal doesn’t go far enough to support the most vulnerable and marginalized residents in one of the nation’s poorest states, advocates said Thursday. Read the full article. Prevent Child Abuse West Virginia Director Jim McKay said it was poignant to him that…
Associated Press, Bluefield Daily Telegraph, WTAP - West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice unveiled his most ambitious personal income tax proposal yet Wednesday: a 50 percent reduction over the next three years. Read the full article. The Republican governor called the plan a “West Virginia tsunami” during his State of the State address, after lawmakers convened…
West Virginia MetroNews - Gov. Jim Justice is calling for a “relatively flat,” $4.884 billion budget that includes pay raises for most state employees and some increased financial support for the Public Employees Insurance Agency. Read the full article. “I want to mind the store,” Justice said during his State of the State address. The…
Daily Athenaeum - WVU President Gordon Gee will be heading out west later this month to give a guest lecture on higher education at Kansas State University. Read the full article. Gee, who Kansas State describes as a “renowned leader in higher education,” will be discussing the current and future state of land-grant universities, according…
WOWK TV - On this week’s episode of Inside West Virginia Politics, we will be previewing the 2023 West Virginia Legislative Session. Read the full article. In Segment One, we bring in House Speaker Roger Hanshaw (R-Clay). In Segment Two, we bring in Del. Mike Pushkin (D-Kanawha, State Party Chair). In Segment Three, we bring…
West Virginia News, Wheeling Intelligencer - Officials with the West Virginia Department of Revenue pushed back Monday against criticisms that record-breaking tax revenue surpluses are due to lowballing the revenue estimates that determine the annual state budget. Read the full article. Dave Hardy, cabinet secretary for the Department of Revenue, briefed members of the Joint…
Charleston Gazette-Mail, Williamson Daily News - Tax cuts continue to headline discussions leading into the 86th West Virginia Legislature, with one budgetary watchdog group urging the state to be cautious with its now projected $1.8 billion budget surplus. Read the full article. Gov. Jim Justice and leaders of the House of Delegates and Senate have…