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Senate finance committee gets started on Tomblin’s tobacco tax increase bill
By MetroNews Staff
The Senate Finance Committee began debate Tuesday on legislation that will raise the prices of cigarettes, other tobacco products and e-cigarettes.
The bill (HB 420) is Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin’s proposal to raise additional tax money to help balance the state’s budgets for this fiscal year and next.
The bill raises the tax on a pack of cigarettes from the...
West Virginia leads nation again in school breakfast participation
By Jeff Jenkins, WV MetroNews
The Food Research & Action Center announced Tuesday for the second year in a row West Virginia is doing better than any other state in the nation getting school kids to eat breakfast at school.
It wasn’t always that way, Richard Goff, executive director of the Office of Child Nutrition at the West Virginia Department of Education, told MetroNews.
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“The hard work begins” following right to work passage
By Carrie Hodousek, WV MetroNews
While supporters of West Virginia’s right to work legislation are looking forward to new opportunities to grow the state’s economy, opponents say they’re disappointed with how the debate over the bill was carried out.
“Not only would they vote to pass right to work, but it’s the manner in which some of the people like Senator (Robert) Karnes (R-Upshur,11) and others...
House to examine bill to set aside class time to fill out FAFSA
By Matt Maccaro, WV MetroNews
A bill passed by the House Education Committee last Friday would make it a priority for high school students to learn how to properly fill out the FAFSA form.
Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs for the state Higher Education Policy Commission Dr. Adam Green said the bill would set aside class time for completion of the form.
“This really puts an emphasis...
Mucking up education
Republicans should stop playing politics and let the professionals do their jobs
Editorial Register-Herald
If you thought the Republican majority in Charleston couldn’t top itself with bad legislation, well, we’re here to tell you that it is trying.
So give them an A for effort.
Under Republican majorities in both houses, the West Virginia Legislature is pushing an extreme right-wing political...