West Virginia Public Broadcasting - More than 100 people signed up to speak at a public hearing Wednesday on the abortion bill. Read the full article. With so many wanting to speak, each person was given 45 seconds. Several were escorted out of the chamber by police for running overtime. Several of the women who…
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WOWK - On this week’s episode of Inside West Virginia Politics, we talk about Gov. Justice’s income tax cut proposal, goals for the West Virginia Democratic Party and the Charleston Police Department. Listen to the full segment. In Segments One and Two, Mark Curtis talks to two people about Gov. Justice’s income tax cut proposal.…
West Virginia MetroNews - Just ahead of a special session to consider cutting personal income taxes, Gov. Jim Justice says he met with senators to try to persuade them. Read the full article. The special session is supposed to start at noon Monday, but it’s entirely unclear whether the Republican governor and the Senate’s Republican…
Times West Virginian - Here we go again. Read the full article. West Virginia legislators are being beckoned to Charleston for a special session, this time to pass a bill that would lower the state income tax by 10% with the long-term goal of total elimination of the income tax. Now, we fully support putting…
WCHS - West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice has called a special session of the Legislature for Monday at noon. The governor wants senators and delegates to consider his plan to cut the state's personal income tax by 10%. Read the full article. For quite some time, Justice has been promoting cutting or eliminating the state's…
West Virginia Public Broadcasting - A proposed constitutional amendment on the ballot this November will give the West Virginia Legislature authority to remove or reduce a variety of county level property taxes. Read the full article. West Virginia Public Broadcasting previewed the ballot measure, looking at concerns on how passage would affect the state economy,…
AP, US News, Shelton Herald, Weirton Daily Times, - West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice called on state lawmakers Wednesday to meet at the Capitol next week to consider a permanent 10% reduction in the state’s income tax. Read the full article. “Once we get the ball rolling, we can keep coming back and chipping away at our…
West Virginia MetroNews - Gov. Jim Justice issued a call for a legislative special session to begin at noon Monday, proposing cuts to personal income taxes. Read the full article. The governor’s call also included more specific information about changes to brackets, reflecting the governor’s desire to give lower wage earners a somewhat larger break…
Mountain State Spotlight - Days after the end of the fiscal year on July 1 showed West Virginia’s revenues well above official estimates, Gov. Jim Justice faced a camera in his Capitol office and announced his plans to keep West Virginia on the economic “rocket ship ride” he’s long promised: a 10% income tax cut.…
West Virginia MetroNews - Gov. Jim Justice is pushing for income tax cuts of about 10 percent for West Virginians. But the governor has been suggesting lower-income citizens should get a bigger break by percentage than higher wage earners. Read the full article. House Finance Chairman Eric Householder agrees with the broad strokes of the…