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CHARLES TOWN – How much control does the Jefferson County Commission legally have over Sheriff Tom Hansen’s law enforcement spending, as well as the spending of any other county elected
A WVU Student Government Association senator who has requested state funding for a mental health project responded Monday to a public dismissal from a senior advisor to West Virginia Gov.
CHARLESTON — The state Supreme Court has ruled a senior status circuit judge was correct in granting summary judgment to the state by rejecting an appeal from five state employees who claimed they were shortchanged by a payroll cycle change. On April 20, the justices affirmed the ruling made last year by Judge Thomas Evans, who sided with the state and said the employees are not owed any pay. The employees had argued that the switch of pay cycles from twice a month to every two weeks left them missing some of their salaries. “We fought hard for West Virginia state workers’ wages,” Ter...
Remember the heady days of 2018? When 53 percent of Utah voters passed Proposition 2, allowing the use of medical cannabis by qualified Utah patients? Voters even "green-lit" the growing of up to six plants for certain patients' personal use. But voters taking such matters into their own hands woke up a sleeping bear—meaning Utah's governor and Legislature then sprang into action approving their own medical cannabis bill that circumvented Prop 2. And now, after years of advocacy, grueling work to put a referendum to the voters, opposition from conservative and religious leaders, and plenty ...
Construction of University of Connecticut’s Hartford campus ran $30 million over budget, state auditors reported. Nearly $30 million in construction cost overruns on the University of Connecticut’s Hartford campus topped a list of contracting issues that sparked criticism Tuesday from the state auditors’ office. UConn’s new downtown Hartford campus, located in the former Hartford Times building, opened in August 2017 at a cost of $116.7 million, 34% greater than the project budget, Auditor John C. Geragosian wrote. Construction and renovations combined originally were priced at $87 ...