Have West Virginia exports been on fire recently? A tweet by the West Virginia Republican Party suggests so. In an April 2 tweet, the state party said, “West Virginia’s exports increased for the second year in a row in 2018, reaching $8.1 billion. Additionally, West Virginia’s export growth rate was 14.2%, […]

How big a deal are small businesses in West Virginia? Pretty big, according to a recent article in WVNews. The article, published March 30, 2019, quoted Nikki Bowmar, a spokeswoman for the West Virginia district office of the U.S. Small Business Administration, saying that “there are approximately 114,391 small businesses in […]

West Virginia Del. Joshua Higginbotham, a Republican, touted the number of jobs created by the gas and oil industry in West Virginia during a Jan. 23 interview with West Virginia Public Broadcasting. “Tens of thousands of jobs (are) created in West Virginia by the natural gas and oil industries,” Higginbotham said. Have […]

During a recent interview with Bloomberg television, Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., was asked about how his constituents feel about the government shutdown and the immigration policy dispute that caused it. In the Jan. 8 interview — conducted a few weeks before President Donald Trump and congressional leaders ended the shutdown — Manchin […]