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VIDEO: Ken Hechler Talks About His U.S. Senate Race, Mountaintop Removal

Watch as Democrat Ken Hechler talks about his run for the U.S. Senate seat that the late Robert C. Byrd left behind. Hechler is a former member of the House of Representatives and a former W.Va. Secretary of State. He faces Gov. Joe Manchin and Sheirl Fletcher in the Democratic primary Aug. 28. [embed]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhRZ_Y1UVN4[/embed] Related articles by Zemanta Andrew Levine: Someone ...
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VIDEO: Ken Hechler Talks About His U.S. Senate Race, Mountaintop Removal

By Steven Allen Adams on July 27, 2010
Watch as Democrat Ken Hechler talks about his run for the U.S. Senate seat that the late Robert C. Byrd left behind. Hechler is a former member of the House of Representatives and a former W.Va. Secretary of State. He faces Gov. Joe Manchin and Sheirl Fletcher in the Democratic primary Aug. 28.Read More>>

West Virginia Housing Development Fund Offers 3.5 Percent Interest Rate

By Steven Allen Adams on July 27, 2010
280 qualifying families could be eligible for one of the lowest mortgage rates in the history of the West Virginia Housing Development Fund. At a press conference this morning, Gov. Joe Manchin announced that the West Virginia Housing Development Fund a new mortgage program that offers a 30-year fixed rate loan as low as 3.5 [...]Read More>>

Special Election and Primary Leaves Out Independents, Those Without Money

By Steven Allen Adams on July 22, 2010
West Virginia Republican and Democrat lawmakers were able to get what they wanted out of the Senate vacancy and succession bill passed Monday night, but if you’re not a well-financed member of one of three state political parties or a independent with a couple grand to spend you have little chance of getting on the [...]Read More>>

VIDEO: PDWV and WVCAG Delivers Concerns to Rep. Shelley Moore Capito’s Office

By Steven Allen Adams on July 21, 2010
A group of concerned citizens with the Progressive Democrats of West Virginia and West Virginia Citizens Action Group met with members of Rep. Shelley Moore Capito‘s staff at her Kanawha City office. The group brought their concerns over environmental issues, including green jobs, cap and trade, and mountaintop removal. WVCAG, working as a part of [...]Read More>>

AUDIO: Capito Announces on WV MetroNews Talkline She is Not Seeking Senate Seat

By Steven Allen Adams on July 21, 2010
In an exclusive interview this morning on MetroNews Talkline, Rep. Shelley Moore Capito officially announced she would not seek election to the U.S. Senate seat of the late Sen. Robert C. Byrd. On Talkline, hosted by Hoppy Kercheval, Capito (R-W.Va.) said she would keep her commitment to run for her 2nd district Congressional seat. Legislation [...]Read More>>

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WatchBlog: Cato Publishes Handbook on Recent Health Care Reform Bill

By Steven Allen Adams on July 26, 2010
Now that the failed special session of the West Virginia Legislature is over, and now that our circus of a special election is in its infancy, I have a little bit of free time to get back to what we do here best: investigative reporting. So while I bury my head in government documents and [...]Read More>>

LIVE BLOG: WVGOP Vote for New Party Chair, Doug McKinney and Mike Stuart Face Off

By Steven Allen Adams on July 24, 2010
West Virginia Watchdog is at the West Virginia Republican Executive Committee summer meeting at the Waterfront Place Hotel in Morgantown, W.Va., where a new chair will be elected to lead the party through the 2010 general election. Dr. Doug McKinney, the incumbent, is being opposed by Mike Stuart, President of the West Virginia Conservative Foundation. [...]Read More>>

WatchBlog: CalWatchdog’s Steven Greenhut Talks Public Employee Paychecks, Perks, and Plunder

By Steven Allen Adams on July 22, 2010
Watch as Steven Greenhut, Editor in Chief of our sister website CalWatchdog.com, is interviewed by Reason.tv‘s Ted Balaker about his new book, “Plunder! How Public Employee Unions are Raiding Treasuries, Controlling Our Lives and Bankrupting the Nation.” Related articles by Zemanta Now Playing at Reason.tv: Steven Greenhut on Public Employee Paychecks, Perks, and Plunder (reason.com) [...]Read More>>

WatchBlog: Politics Daily Reports on Byrd Earmark Legacy

By Steven Allen Adams on July 21, 2010
Watch as Alissa Irei, reporting for Politics Daily, talks about the legacy of the late Sen. Robert C. Byrd‘s earmarks. Was Byrd a Pig?: The late Sen. Byrd’s legacy of pork barreling from Medill Washington on Vimeo. From the story: Some budget watchers nicknamed Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.) the “King of Pork.” Other people [...]Read More>>

WatchBlog: Mercatus Calculates Total Welfare Cost of Value Added Tax

By Steven Allen Adams on July 14, 2010
As a companion to our piece earlier on the Mercatus Center study on whether a Value Added Tax (VAT) would work in the U.S., Mercatus Senior Fellow Veronique de Rugy took a more detailed look and put her results in living color. From Mercatus: Mercatus Center Senior Research Fellow Veronique de Rugy examines the true [...]Read More>>

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