W.Va. Book Festival Announces Featured Authors For 2024
West Virginia’s annual book festival celebrating national and regional authors will come to the Charleston Coliseum and Convention Center this October.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsSingle filers who made over $50,000 per year, and joint filers who made over $100,000 per year used to have to pay taxes on social security income. However the legislature passed, and the governor signed, a bill that will eliminate the tax for all earners.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsOn this episode of The Legislature Today, small and rural schools in West Virginia find it difficult to staff school resource officers and other security personnel, but a bill now making its way through the House of Delegates would allow teachers and other school staff to carry a firearm or other weapon on school grounds. Chris Schulz spoke with Del. Elliot Pritt, R-Fayette, and Del. Anitra Hamilton, D-Monongalia, for their perspective.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsTitled the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, House Bill 5251 outlines which telephone solicitations are acceptable and which are not.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsOn this episode of The Legislature Today, with West Virginia tourism growing as a four season, nationwide destination, there's an abundance of legislation to enhance hiking and biking, with rail trails and rest stops along the way.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsCiting record high inflation and higher food costs, the Social Security Administration announced Wednesday an 8.7 percent increase in benefits set to begin in 2023.
Continue Reading Take Me to More NewsManchin met with AARP representatives in Charleston Tuesday to receive petitions from West Virginians who want Congress to help make their medications more affordable.
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