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By Phil Kabler
The Charleston Gazette
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Cuts in the business franchise and corporate net income tax and the elimination of the sales tax on food have reduced state tax collections in the current budget year by about $360 million, Revenue Secretary Bob Kiss told the Senate Finance Committee on Monday.
"If none of these tax cuts had passed, the state would be seeing significantly higher revenue," said Kiss, who said the goal is that the tax cuts will...
By Jim Sannes and Lauren Talotta
WBOY-TV
Harrison County Board of Education President Mike Queen announced Friday that he has resigned from his position as president and member of the board so that he is seeking election in the State Senate as a Republican.
"Being a school board member is the toughest job that I ever loved. I did it for the students. In 2006, I asked the voters for two terms. That's eight years. The voters elected me with large majorities in both...
By Jeff Jenkins
MetroNews
West Virginia School Building Authority Executive Director Mark Manchin told MetroNews Monday he expects to become the next school superintendent in Harrison County.
“I understand that Wednesday evening the offer will be made,” Manchin said. “And if the offer is made Wednesday evening I will accept.”
The Harrison County Board of Education is scheduled to meet Wednesday evening.
Manchin has been leading the SBA since 2006 when he...
By Sarah Harmon, Staff Writer
The Intelligencer / Wheeling News-Register
MOUNDSVILLE - Woody Yoder, curriculum director of Marshall County Schools, believes the key to helping children struggling to learn is a teacher's comprehensive knowledge of the unique qualities of his or her students.
According to Yoder, the county's implementation of the Support for Personalized Learning program has given teachers the tools to keep track of students who have difficulty...
By Douglas Imbrogno
The Sunday Gazette-Mail
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Textbooks were famously a line in the sand in culture wars that shook Kanawha County in the early 1970s. Trey Kay documented "The Great Textbook War," the title of his award-winning public radio documentary about the subject, which was honored with the Peabody, Murrow and duPont awards.
Textbooks remain a flashpoint for all kinds of cultural and social issues and Kay is back with a new radio documentary, "...