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Recently, the West Virginia Board of Risk and Management Insurance (BRIM) settled lawsuits totalling more than $100 million in a case of abused and victimized children at the now shut down Miracle Meadows religious boarding school in Harrison County. It follows $52 million in previously settled claims.

A recent letter from the state president of the American Federation of Teachers to West Virginia University’s Board of Governors has drawn the ire of the state Senate Finance Committee

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WV News) — West Virginia’s oil and gas industry saw increases in production and in state property and severance taxes generated last year.

Republicans are now in their ninth year in power in West Virginia, and as the old saying goes, the chickens are coming home to roost:

I have been struggling with whether to write this ever since West Virginia University announced the Draconian cuts being considered across the university — struggling because I have many former

As West Virginia University braces for broad cuts to departments and faculty, including the school’s entire foreign language program, President E. Gordon Gee has blamed financial woes on falling enrollment

A couple of weeks ago, the president of West Virginia University, Gordon Gee, announced a set of truly draconian cuts: he’s firing 169 faculty, about 16% of the full-t...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WV News) — Natural gas production, tax revenue and jobs tied to the state’s natural gas and oil sector all increased over the last year, according to the

President Joe Biden, still intent on destroying the value of a dollar you earn, has proposed a new tax that would initially fall on both the income and unrealized asset gains of upper-income taxpayers but ultimately pass through to your families as a rise in the cost of goods. It’s a terrible plan that would […]

Earlier this week, 35 of 44 bills proposed in the recent special legislative session passed. But what about the bills that failed?