CHARLESTON — West Virginia lawmakers are keeping a close eye on how West Virginia and Marshall universities might interact with the state’s smaller colleges under proposals by […]
Author: Brad McElhinny, WVMetroNews.com
Committee calls for investigation into state properties
CHARLESTON — Leaders of the House Committee on Government Organization are calling for an investigation into whether the state is paying for any more properties it isn’t […]
Gov. Justice calls for broad study of higher education system
CHARLESTON — The search for a new higher education chancellor is likely to end next week because of Gov. Jim Justice’s call for a broad study of […]
President Trump to visit The Greenbrier resort Tuesday
CHARLESTON — Gov. Jim Justice acknowledged Monday President Donald Trump will visit The Greenbrier resort, which the governor owns, this week. Asked directly about the president’s visit, […]
State, DHHR missed many opportunities to stop payments on vacated office space
CHARLESTON. — West Virginia’s government had opportunity after opportunity to halt its monthly $30,907.34 payments for office suites it vacated in 2015. “I think our folks were […]
Middletown Mall owners maintain DHHR lease still valid
CHARLESTON — State agencies produced new letters meant to cancel a lease at Fairmont’s Middletown Mall, where rent payments amounting to almost $1 million have been made […]
House votes to allow committee to begin impeachment proceedings against Loughry
CHARLESTON — The West Virginia Legislature began exploring impeachment Tuesday June 26 in the wake of state Supreme Court justice Allen Loughry facing 22 federal counts. The […]
Legislative special session will debate impeachment of Justice Loughry
CHARLESTON — With indicted state Supreme Court Justice Allen Loughry unwilling to resign, Gov. Jim Justice called West Virginia legislators into special session to debate impeachment proceedings […]
W.Va. Supreme Court facing analysis of spending
CHARLESTON — Over just a few years, West Virginia’s court system built up a budget surplus of $29 million. Almost as quickly, while the Legislature was giving […]
Flood report questions if homes were built under reconstruction program
CHARLESTON — As West Virginia recognizes the two-year anniversary of a deadly flood, investigators issued a scathing report about contracts that were supposed to frame the state’s […]
