Democrats in the U.S. House are continuing their focus on climate change, this week shifting from its environmental to its economic impact and looking to Appalachia for next steps to aid communities with fossil fuel-based economies. On Thursday, members of the Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee heard testimony on how […]
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West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, a Republican, recently took to Facebook to criticize the Affordable Care Act, the landmark law also known as Obamacare. Morrisey is seeking to overturn the law through a suit filed by a number of Republican attorneys general. In his Jan. 2 post, Morrisey said the country must […]
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This story was originally published by the Huffington Post and is used here with permission. West Virginia lawmaker Eric Porterfield is facing calls to resign after a string of homophobic remarks, such as likening the LGBTQ community to the Ku Klux Klan and saying he would “see if [his kids] can swim” if they came out as gay. Porterfield (R-Mercer), who is a […]
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Unemployment has fallen across the country in recent years. But the West Virginia Democratic Party said in a recent tweet that it hasn’t fallen on Republican Gov. Jim Justice’s watch. In a Jan. 9 tweet, the state party wrote, “FACT: Unemployment rate has not decreased since @WVGovernor took office. #wvpol #WVSOTS19″ […]
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In a recent op-ed, Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., wrote that the economic environment in West Virginia — and the United States as a whole — is the healthiest it’s been in years. In the op-ed, published Jan. 3 in the Daily Mail WV, Capito wrote that “the American economy had […]
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At the first Congressional committee hearing in ten years to have the words climate change in the title, a Democrat and a Republican, perhaps surprisingly, stood side by side on the issue. “We can’t afford not to take urgent action,” North Carolina Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper told members of the […]
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