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Tomblin appoints former Speaker of the House as revenue secretary

Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin announced this morning former Speaker of the House of Delegates Bob Kiss will take over as Cabinet Secretary of the state Department of Revenue. Kiss starts his new job July 1. He...

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Lunchtime rundown: W.Va. staves off deficit with cuts, Casey raises big bucks

With the 2013 fiscal year coming to a close on June 30, Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin last week had to pull $17.7 million from the state’s Medicaid reserve funds to buoy the budget and keep the state in the...

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Lunchtime rundown: Another big budget cut on the way, campaign contribution...

One of the big theme of this year’s budget-making process was how state agencies would deal with the 7.5 percent budget cuts requested by Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin last August. Well, it now appears the...

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Preparing for another government shutdown

The official logo of the government shutdown. The recent federal government shutdown — and the lapse in federal funding it caused — ended last Wednesday night, a little more than a fortnight after it...

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Lunchtime rundown: NPLEx explained, officials reflect on recent shutdown, and...

Much has been written about the National Precursor Log Exchange, West Virginia’s pseudoephedrine tracking system that rolled out to every state pharmacy earlier this year. But one thing missing from...

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Lunchtime rundown: VA officials defend painkiller scrips, Kiss warns of...

Brenda Rappold, chief of Pharmacy talks to the chief of staff Dr. John Berryman. A recent report found that the Beckley VA Medical Center is the second-highest prescriber of painkillers among VA...

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Despite some silver linings, the October revenue reports are still depressing

Although there are a few reasons to be optimistic, like increasing natural gas production and better-than-expected revenues for the state road fund, West Virginia’s 2014 budget year is shaping up to be...

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