Alexa Beyer, Author at Mountain State Spotlight

In Tuesday’s edition of Statehouse Spotlight, the Senate passed campus carry. Also, a House committee talked about consolidating nuclear regulation in the Department of Environmental Protection and lawmakers will have to decide exactly how to curtail the Governor’s emergency powers.

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West Virginia Senate passes bill to legalize concealed carry on college campuses

West Virginia coal industry pushes for state office to recruit miners, promote coal benefits

Gov. Justice’s income tax cut reaches Senate where it’s ‘dead on arrival’

West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice paints rosy picture of progress in a state where major problems call out for more urgent action

The U.S. Forest Service plans to clear-cut in the Monongahela National Forest. West Virginians worry it’s a return to the state’s destructive logging past

West Virginia lawmakers created a commission to help struggling coal communities. Gov. Jim Justice still hasn’t appointed members.

As Corridor H nears completion, residents fight state highway officials to route it around their towns

Lewisburg: Loving small-town life, but focused on national issues

Hinton: Grappling with rising grocery prices, low availability

Biden promised to focus on ‘environmental justice.’ So far, that doesn’t include finishing key review of mountaintop removal’s health impacts

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