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The West Virginia Democratic Party has denounced the termination of remote work arrangements for state employees. According to Delegate Mike Pushkin (D-Kanawha), party chair, the changes apply to the Departments of Health, Human Services and Health Facilities – the departments that formerly made up the Department of Health and Human Resources.
West Virginia’s Republican-dominated state Legislature has concluded a session marked by budget disputes and controversial social issue bills that advanced but ultimately didn’t go anywhere.
The West Virginia House of Delegates passed a bill, on Feb. 28, 2024, that would require utilities to have an outage communication plan in place to notify customers of both planned and unexpected utility service disruptions. House Bill 4010 could loom especially large in West Virginia given the state’s chronically high frequency of electric outages, requiring utilities to provide their plans to the state Public Service Commission.
West Virginia lawmakers, on Feb. 23, 2024, passed out of the House Health and Human Resources Committee House Bill 5297 to the full chamber. The bill would ban interventions like hormone therapy and puberty blockers from at-risk transgender youth.
There were many weird political developments in the past week, I was forced to check my lunar calendar. Was there a full moon? So many odd things were happening (like that never happens in politics)! Nope, it was actually a beautiful, waning crescent moon