2016-02-17 16:27
The Legislature released this photo from one of the week's ceremonial bill signings by Gov. Joe Manchin (at desk).But that's apparently not how one newspaper published it.The bill creates &l&hell…Read More
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A just-the-facts approach to politics and government in the Mountain State of West Virginia.
2010-06-01 18:00
U.S. Reps. Alan Mollohan, D-1st, and Nick Rahall, D-3rd, helped pass the American Workers, State, and Business Relief Act of 2010.Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, R-2nd, voted against the measure… Read More
2010-06-01 13:00
The emergency mine inspections ordered by Gov. Joe Manchin in the wake of April's Upper Big Branch disaster yielded 128 citations for alleged violations, The Associated Press reports.Two min… Read More
2010-05-28 19:03
Gov. Joe Manchin soon hopes to launch Country Roads, a federal political action committee that "would operate under federal rules and raise funds that Manchin could spend to support candida… Read More
2010-05-28 13:30
President Obama has nominated a Wheeling lawyer, William J. Ihlenfeld, for U.S. Attorney for West Virginia's northern federal court district, The Associated Press reports.Ihlenfeld, 38, has… Read More
2010-05-28 13:00
U.S. Rep. Alan Mollohan, D-1st, voted for a measure that The Associated Press explains would "repeal the 1993 law that allows gay people to serve in the armed services only if they hide the… Read More
2010-05-27 18:30
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball is the latest of the national political handicappers to recast or keep West Virginia's 1st Congressional District race as a "toss-up" in the wake of state Sen. Mi… Read More
2010-05-27 18:05
With The Associated Press reporting on the apparent forced resignation of S. Elizabeth Birnbaum as director of the U.S. Minerals Management Service, those reacting (updated) include U.S. R… Read More
2010-05-27 18:00
"That was perhaps too much information." -- U.S. House Natural Resources Chairman Nick Rahall, D-W.Va., after Obama Interior Secretary Ken Salazar told his committee that "he sent his deputy… Read More
2010-05-26 18:36
President Obama has won his pick for top prosecutor for West Virginia's southern federal court district, The Associated Press reports.The Senate has confirmed the appointment of Booth Goodwi… Read More
2010-05-25 13:00
As West Virginia wrestles to craft improvements to its public schools, new research puts a price tag on the drain to metropolitan area economies caused by dropouts, The Associated Press repo… Read More
2010-05-25 11:48
Family members of miners killed in the Upper Big Branch disaster are among those expected to testify starting his hour at a congressional public hearing in Beckley, The Associated Press repo… Read More
2010-05-24 14:00
With efforts underway to salvage education proposals from the abruptly halted special session, The Associated Press highlights statistics that "point to a need for changes to the state's pub… Read More
2010-05-21 19:30
U.S. Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., helped pass that chamber's version of the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2009.Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., was one of two members abse… Read More
2010-05-21 19:28
Massey Energy CEO and Chairman Don Blankenship is scheduled to appear before a U.S. Senate appropriations subcommittee this afternoon for a hearing called in response to Massey's Upper Big B… Read More
2010-05-20 13:00
A Lincoln County commissioner tells The Charleston Gazette that he suspects that "some of the absentee ballots cast in last week's primary election may have come from dead people."Commissio… Read More
2010-05-19 23:54
With the House and Senate increasingly at odds over Gov. Joe Manchin's education proposals, the Legislature has halted its special session with plans to try again June 7, The Associated Pres… Read More
2010-05-19 18:15
Delegate John Shott, R-Mercer, will fill the Senate seat of the late Minority Leader Don Caruth until at least the November election, The Associated Press reports.Gov. Joe Manchin appointed… Read More
2010-05-19 18:02
While the Senate has largely embraced Gov. Joe Manchin's education agenda, it voted down proposed pay boost "for teachers and principals in West Virginia's high-poverty and minority public… Read More
2010-05-19 15:12
The Associated Press statehouse correspondent in Nashville whose press credentials were threatened after an incident last week will keep them, Romenesko reports.The item relays an article fr… Read More
2010-05-19 13:00
With the Senate and House each taking Gov. Joe Manchin's education proposals in a different direction, their fate "remains uncertain," The Associated Press reports.While 15 other bills have… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Forty-two months and 2,489 posts later, I am migrating completely to Twitter. I encourage all to continue following me there for a just-the-facts approach to West Virginia government and pol… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Despite revenues falling short of estimates for the fiscal year, West Virginia expects to collect more in general revenue taxes that it will spend because of midyear budget cuts, The Associa… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
U.S. Reps. Alan Mollohan, D-1st, and Nick Rahall, D-3rd, helped pass the American Workers, State, and Business Relief Act of 2010.Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, R-2nd, voted against the measure… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
The Associated Press looks at the daunting task facing the state agency assigned to help West Virginia carry out the relevant provisions of the federal health care overhaul.Martha Walker, ac… Read More
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