CHARLESTON — Gov. Jim Justice said he could be helping victims of last week’s storms had the legislature agreed with his $50 million allocation in his proposed […]
Tag: state budget
Justice set us up for financial crisis
Recently, The Dominion Post Editorial Board met with Kelly Allen from the West Virginia Center on Budget and Policy, and she taught us a few things about […]
Bad budget now means funding failure later
During his State of the State address, Gov. Jim Justice presented the Legislature with an essentially flat budget — again. There is a slight increase of about […]
Report: thousands of jobs go unfilled
A state audit found that millions of dollars are being allocated for vacant positions, many of which have been vacant for several years with no evidence that […]
House, Senate adopt resolution calling on Congress for convention to amend Constitution; Senate OKs its budget bill, sends to House
MORGANTOWN – The House of Delegates spent just over an hour Friday debating another one of its annual resolutions applying to Congress to call a convention of […]
Senate delays action on income tax repeal and budget bills for a day; special session for repeal looks likely
MORGANTOWN – The writing is on the wall for the personal income tax repeal bill – for this session at least. The Senate on Tuesday punted action […]
Governor proposes FY 2022 state budget essentially unchanged from current pandemic budget
MORGANTOWN – After a pandemic lasting more than a year, West Virginia will enter Fiscal Year 2022 with a budget essentially the same as this year’s, Gov. […]
House Majority Whip looking for ways to eliminate income tax
MORGANTOWN — In an email leaked to Dragline, a blog that follows West Virginia politics, House Majority Whip Paul Espinosa, R-Jefferson, asked his fellow caucus members for […]
Justice team: Despite COVID, FY 20 ends $28 million in black; FY 21 opens with $244 million surplus
MORGANTOWN — In early April, as the COVID-19 pandemic was gaining momentum, West Virginia’s revenue experts expected the state to be on financial life support by this […]
