During their most recent legislative session, West Virginia lawmakers took up a bill that would require colleges in the state to allow students to carry guns on campus as long as they possess a concealed carry permit. The bill ultimately passed the House, largely on party lines, before falling in the […]

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 […]

The president of the West Virginia state Senate, Mitch Carmichael, recently said that students in the state consistently rank well below students elsewhere when comparing test scores. Carmichael made the comments in an interview with Hoppy Kercheval of WV MetroNews Talkline on Feb. 14, 2019. He was discussing the then-current Senate Bill […]

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., took to Twitter earlier this year to discuss the debate over erecting a wall on the U.S-Mexico border. She said that previous barriers built on the southern border have been successful. In the tweet, Capito said, “Beginning in the early 1990s, we built barriers in 4 sectors […]

West Virginia is reeling from the opioid epidemic, including a significant impact on children whose parents have become addicted. During recent testimony before the state Senate, Jeremiah Samples, the deputy secretary of the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, sought to explain exactly how big that impact has been. […]

West Virginia state Sen. Mike Romano, a Democrat, recently took a swipe at charter schools. A Feb. 2 tweet by the West Virginia Senate Democrats quoted Romano criticizing a low ranking for the state in a report published by the American Legislative Exchange Council, a conservative group. Romano sought to turn the […]