This week, when an award-winning Asheville chef decided to launch a restaurant, she returned to a rich community tradition. Also, the popularity of weaving waxes and wanes. At the moment, it’s having a renaissance. And, during Lent, Yugoslavian fish stew is a local favorite in Charleston, West Virginia.
A huge education reform bill was revealed in the Senate Education Committee. We bring you up-to-date on the bill’s latest action, and we also take a closer look at broadband expansion legislation moving through the statehouse.
Senior Statehouse Reporter Dave Mistich joins host Suzanne Higgins to recap the Senate Education Committee meeting that took up the education reform bill. The bill, which does not have a bill number yet, would make changes to several areas of the state’s education system and has a big emphasis on implementing charter schools in West Virginia.
Higgins is also joined by Dale Lee, President of the West Virginia Education Association and Fred Albert, President of the American Federation of Teachers – West Virginia Chapter who both respond to the omnibus education reform bill.
The Broadband Expansion Act of 2019 will be up for passage in the House Friday, while the Senate continues to work on its own bill to further broadband expansion. Reporter Danite Belay spoke to the sponsors of those bills.
On Friday’s episode of The Legislature Today, we bring you our weekly conversation with statehouse reporters on all the Capitol news of the week.
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On this West Virginia Week, the state budget is headed to Gov. Patrick Morrisey, a statewide public camping ban bill moves forward, and Inside Appalachia visits Good Hot Fish.
On The Legislature This Week, we hear from Kelly Allen, executive director of the Center on Budget and Policy, on the legislature’s budget bill and proposed tax cuts. And we hear what did and didn't make the cut on Crossover Day.
On this episode of The Legislature Today, the state budget was the focal point this week. Thursday night, the House of Delegates concurred with final tweaks made by the Senate earlier that morning to increase Hope Scholarship funding, covering five quarters of payments into the 2027-2028 school year, trim road paving, and for the first time, fund the Flood Resiliency Fund.
This week, when an award-winning Asheville chef decided to launch a restaurant, she returned to a rich community tradition. Also, the popularity of weaving waxes and wanes. At the moment, it’s having a renaissance. And, during Lent, Yugoslavian fish stew is a local favorite in Charleston, West Virginia.