In an 11 a.m. press conference today, West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin announced the plan going forward in regard to filling the late Sen. Robert C. Byrd‘s vacant Senate seat. Manchin explained in detail why he would not appoint himself, saying that even though people wanted him to, he wouldn’t. Manchin said the election process [...]

Listen as Rep. Shelley Moore Capito and the House Republican Conference holds a press conference Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2010, to call on the Obama administration to open up the closed-door health care negotiations to C-SPAN cameras. Capito is joined by Reps. Mike Pence of Indiana, Eric Cantor of Virginia, Vern Buchanan of Florida, and Cathy [...]

Well, the U.S. Senate pushed through their version of health insurance reform over Christmas (as per usual, I will not call it health care reform, because we HAVE health care access for all). So on to the cap and trade legislation, right? Not quite, the health insurance reform debate divided Congress like no other bill. [...]

Apology brings closure to Webster defamation suit | West Virginia Record A month prior to her appointment as the newest Kanawha Circuit judge, a Charleston attorney, and chairwoman of the House of Delegates’ Judiciary Committee was able to conclude a defamation suit filed against her by a South Charleston man by apologizing for her erroneous [...]

Justice Workman Disagrees – West Virginia Headline News and Talk Radio The lone, dissenting voice on West Virginia Supreme Court in the Massey- Harman mining case has blasted the other Justices decision in the third hearing of the Massey Energy-Harman Mining case. In a scathing dissenting opinion, Justice Margaret Workman states that a 4-1 ruling [...]

FOP Wants Legal Fees Paid – News, Sports, Jobs – The Intelligencer / Wheeling News-Register Members of Fraternal Order of Police, Lodge 38, want the city to pay as much as $400 per hour in legal fees for accepting a petition regarding Wheeling‘s two-officer per cruiser mandate. Councilman and FOP member Robert “Herk” Henry knows [...]

Due to national pressure, the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board has already begun purging Recovery.gov of the 440 phantom congressional districts, including the eight extra congressional districts they listed for West Virginia. Instead of matching the jobs created/saved and the dollar amounts to the real congressional districts, Recovery.gov instead lumped the phantom information into one [...]

Coal, Rahall Caught in Political Vice – State Journal – STATEJOURNAL.com Political pundits tell us elections have consequences. Do they ever. West Virginia, a traditionally loyal Democratic state, is getting a new and dismaying look at Democratic politics from party leaders whose America never gets its hands dirty. Mine coal? Burn coal? Make things? American [...]

The recent efforts by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to recruit artists to promote White House policies has been revealed to be nothing short of a propaganda effort by a national watchdog group. Judicial Watch, with the help of several Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, obtained documents from the NEA concerning their [...]

State stimulus spending credited for 2,400 jobs  – News – The Charleston Gazette – West Virginia News and Sports More than 2,400 jobs have been saved or created in West Virginia because of federal stimulus funding, according to those who have been spending the money. Federal officials have reviewed hundreds of reports filed earlier this [...]