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CHARLESTON — A group representing West Virginia’s judiciary has decided not to endorse a proposal to end the election of state judges along partisan lines.
The Southeastern Conference named Kentucky guard Jodie Meeks its Player of the Week for last week. Meeks staged an amazing scoring performance against Kansas State. He scored 37 points in that game. Then he led UK with 19 points against West Virginia in the Las Vegas Invitational finals.
(AP:CHARLESTON, W.Va.) Coal may keep the lights on for about half the country, but in West Virginia it also keeps politicians in office.
The Southeastern Conference named Kentucky guard Jodie Meeks its Player of the Week for last week. Meeks staged an amazing scoring performance against Kansas State. He scored 37 points in that game. Then he led UK with 19 points against West Virginia in the Las Vegas Invitational finals.
ST. LOUIS -- Bill Raney considers coal golden. After all, the black rock fuels half of the nation’s electrical generation. But the West Virginia Coal Association’s president and others in the industry say they’ve received mixed messages about president-elect Barack Obama’s support for coal-fired power.
CHARLESTON -- Coal may keep the lights on for about half the country, but in West Virginia it also keeps politicians in office.
(AP:CHARLESTON, W.Va.) Voters in Greenbrier County have approved gambling at a luxury resort here, but now the house is holding all the cards.
Auto dealers want legislators to view a rescue plan not as a bailout of Detroit's Big Three automakers but a way to prevent pillars of thousands of local communities from crumbling.
Hayden Elder's beaver pelt cowboy hat delivered his message to lawmakers as starkly as anything else did: The proposed $25 billion federal loan to keep the U.S. auto industry breathing is a local issue.
Two aging symbols of Congress' penchant for pouring billions into lawmakers' pet projects are stepping aside next year. While that will probably do little to change Capitol Hill's culture of spending, the biggest challenge may come from an unlikely source - Barack Obama.
Hayden Elder's beaver pelt cowboy hat delivered his message to lawmakers as starkly as anything else did: The proposed $25 billion federal loan to keep the U.S. auto industry breathing is a local issue.
