Less than a year after West Virginia experienced a major teachers’ strike, Republican state Del. Paul Espinosa touted GOP efforts to raise teacher salaries — and attacked Democrats for causing the problem of low pay in the first place. On Oct. 9, Espinosa, who chairs the House Committee on Education, tweeted, […]

In his quest to win a U.S. Senate seat, Republican candidate Patrick Morrisey is touting a legal accomplishment that he said aided the state’s coal industry. A television ad by Morrisey says, among other things, that Morrisey “beat (President Barack) Obama at the Supreme Court, saving coal jobs.” (An earlier […]