Public News Service, Clay County Free Press, Mountain Messenger - A new West Virginia law requires magistrates and judges to set a hearing within five days for people who've been arrested for not showing up to a court hearing, not paying fines on time, or not following civil-court rulings. Read the full article. The reform comes…
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Charleston Gazette-Mail - The cause of a West Virginia University budget crisis varies, depending on who you ask. Read the full article. WVU is grappling with a $45 million budget shortfall for the upcoming fiscal year, which is expected to swell to $75 million a year by 2028. Over the past several months, the university…
West Virginia MetroNews, Hampshire Review - West Virginia University is going through the difficult job of coping with a projected $45 million deficit. A West Virginia think tank has concluded that if state support for higher education had remained steady over the past few years, that would have nearly made up the difference. Read the…
Huntington Herald-Dispatch - A law taking effect June 9 aims to help tackle the increasing number of capias arrests and reduce the state’s jail population. Read the full article. Passed in the 2023 legislative session, Senate Bill 633 establishes a uniform standard for addressing and streamlining capias arrests, also known as bench warrants, which have significantly increased…
WTRF - The West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy has been holding meetings across the Mountain State to educate communities on the state’s finances and where state dollars are going. Read the full article. Monday night the presentation made its way to Ohio County to inform about how one-time monies like severance taxes, for…
Charleston Gazette-Mail, Huntington Herald-Dispatch - West Virginia corrections officials were eager to call attention to severe staffing shortages throughout their facilities in a state legislative committee meeting in which other items were on the agenda. Read the full article. “We didn’t want to be in front of you guys with an opportunity to speak without…
WBOY - A representative from the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy (WVCBP) held a meeting at the Morgantown Public Library downtown this evening. Read the full article. Much of the meeting spoke about how the state does not have a surplus of money in its budget and how the loss of the…
West Virginia Public Broadcasting - Today, Thursday, May 11, the U.S. officially canceled the designation of COVID-19 as a public health emergency in the country. Read the full article. Also this week, the World Health Organization (WHO) removed its designation for COVID-19 as a “global health emergency.” For the first time in more than three…
Charleston Gazette-Mail - West Virginia politics is a bundle of contradictions, as we’ve seen recently. Read the full article. At roughly the same time Gov. Jim Justice was lauding the latest state budget surplus figures (made possible by hilariously low-balled revenue estimates), legislators were hearing about how multiple state agencies, notably Highways and DHHR, owe…
West Virginia Public Broadcasting - Higher coal and natural gas prices, and higher demand for both generated a severance tax windfall that fattened the state’s budget surplus last year. But the prices for both fossil fuels have declined in recent months. Read the full article. Sean O’Leary, senior policy analyst for the West Virginia Center…