CHARLESTON — Attempts by both Republican and Democratic U.S. senators to end an impasse on federal government funding that started a shutdown of services Wednesday failed for a second day. The Senate voted 55-45 Wednesday afternoon on a motion to invoke cloture on a motion to proceed with ...
CHARLESTON — Paul Hardesty, the president of the West Virginia Board of Education, has a blunt message for lawmakers: if they care about competition in the education space, then untie the hands of public educators and county school systems. “We have the best option. Ours is free,” ...
MORGANTOWN — Could you imagine if the entire combined populations of California and Texas visited West Virginia in the span of one year? It’s a rhetorical question, of course, but it requires no real imagination. Because you’d also have to tack on the population of Virginia to hit a ...
CHARLESTON — Tax collections for West Virginia’s general revenue fund in September came in above estimates for the month, reversing a slight decline and adding to a small by growing surplus. According to reports released Wednesday by the state Department of Revenue and the Senate Finance ...
MARIETTA — Marietta City Council’s Water and Sewer Committee discussed two proposed resolutions aimed at responding to the state’s approval of a Class II injection well. However, they disagreed over how much authority to grant a proposed task force and whether changes to one of the ...