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FOLLANSBEE — One month before the May 14 primary election, Democratic candidates introduced themselves and their platforms Friday during a forum in the Follan

STEVEN ALLEN ADAMS File Photo by Perry Bennett/West Virginia Legislative Photography Delegate Mark Zatezalo, R-Hancock, reviews a report at the state Capitol in Charleston. CHARLESTON – The West Virginia House of Delegates voted Thursday to approve, for a second time, a bill creating an education savings account program after the House Finance Committee fixed issues with the legislation. House Bill 2013 creating the Hope Scholarship passed 57-42 Thursday after it previously passed 60-39 on Fe...

Staff writer WHEELING — As members look toward the upcoming West Virginia Legislature, they see a new view that changes the landscape. What they will see is more Republican members, and the GOP now constitutes a “supermajority” in both chambers at the legislature. This gives GOP caucuses great power to pass most any bill they wish to push this session, and to override any potential gubernatorial veto. They next must decide how much responsibility they have to Democrats. When the 100 membe...

jking@theintelligencer.net WHEELING — As members look toward the upcoming West Virginia Legislature, they see a new view that changes the landscape. What they will see is more Republican members, and the GOP now constitute a “supermajority” in both chambers at the legislature. This gives GOP caucuses great power to pass most any bill they wish to push this session, and to override any potential gubernatorial veto. They next must decide how much responsibility they have to Democrats. When ...

JOSELYN KING Staff Writer WEIRTON — Delegate Patrick McGeehan says he will introduce legislation this session to limit the emergency powers of West Virginia’s governor. Other Northern Panhandle legislators in the House and Senate — both Democrat and Republican — say the passage of such a bill is needed. Restrictions placed by Gov. Jim Justice this year in response to COVID-19 concerns in the state have McGeehan, R-Hancock, concerned. Among these, he said, were business lockdowns, and in...