Below:
The Crowd Thins Out
By Gary Zuckett, garyz@wvcag.org
As we mentioned on Monday, this was crossover week and bills not passed
out of their house of origin are generally dead. I say generally because
leadership has ways to make bills come back to life through various
obscure procedures. These “zombie” bills can attach to one that is still
alive and cause it to fail, or tag along with it to the finish line. I
never did like horror movies, but I’m afraid not to watch this process…
Now that both Houses are mainly dealing with bills passed over from the
other side and no new bills are being introduced, the manic tension in
the air up there has subsided, for now. The majority of introduced bills
are now in the recycle bin and one member of the House of Delegates
mentioned to me (with a smile) as we left the building on Crossover Day,
“It’s time to kill some Senate Bills.” I’ve got several (from both
sides) on my wish list...
Monday our citizen lobbyists from WV for Democracy will
be in the halls to push the Senate to follow the House’s lead and pass
SR24 the resolution to overturn Citizens United vs FEC. See Barbara’s
article and come on up if you can.
We are one of the founding groups of a broad progressive
coalition called WV United for Social & Economic Justice with Labor,
Faith, and other non-profits like us in the mix. During the session
we’ve been meeting weekly to go over bills and issues that come up and
to help support each other’s initiatives. The following is some of the
info from today’s discussion:
Our allies at ACLU are still fighting the governor’s
“Drugged Driving” bill HB 2513 that allows the state police to drag you
down to the emergency room to draw blood for a test to discover if you
are driving under the influence of drugs. What happens if you’re in a
rural county w/o a hospital? ACLU says it’s a warrantless search and
probably unconstitutional, but hey, the governor usually gets what he
wants. This one is in Senate Transportation then goes to Judiciary.
The Maternity Insurance Coverage bill SB 22 is also
still alive and in the House Judiciary committee for consideration. This
is the one that requires insurance companies to cover dependent
daughters for pregnancy medical services.
The Governor’s “Jobs Impact“ bill SB187 also made it
across the aisle very much alive. This is another suspect bill that
would require an assessment of the number of jobs created or lost by any
given piece of legislation when requested by leadership or the governor.
This is a concept long supported by polluters as a weapon against those
pesky pro-environment bills that keep threatening the profits of our
extractive and chemical industries. Its single referenced to House
Judiciary.
Our Supreme Court bill HB2805 to make last year’s
successful public financing pilot project also came up for discussion.
Allies at the WV Association for Justice noted that their nemesis, the
astroturf group “Citizen’s Against Lawsuit Abuse” is running a poll in
their rag the ‘WV Record’ asking readers if they agreed with the idea of
public financing for SC races. Go to http://wvrecord.com/ to vote yes.
See Julie’s article for details.
There’s so much more going on up there than we can
possibly cover in this newsletter. Feel free to contact us with concerns
about bills of interest. Also, WV Public Broadcasting does a great
service on its Legislature Today TV show every evening and WV Morning
news on their radio stations. Their web page has links to listen
anytime. Once more, the legislative web page is also treasure trove of
info: www.legis.state.wv.us
Thanks for Your Support!
We are still working our way toward matching the $5,000 challenge by one
of our long-time donors. As of today we’ve cost him almost half of his
pledge. You can help us draw it all down with your contribution. The
legislative session is one of our most expensive projects every year –
and the most important! Your contributions in support of our efforts are
much appreciated and needed. Please take a minute to drop us a check to
1500 Dixie St, 25311 or on our web page at
www.wvcag.org .
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Help Stop “Halliburton”
Amendment to DEP’s Horizontal Well Control Act Rule
By Julie Archer,
julie@wvcag.org
A couple of weeks ago we ran a
Dominion Post editorial about the Senate Energy, Industry and Mining
(EIM) Committee adopting an amendment to DEP’s Horizontal Well Rule that
weakens the provisions that require disclosure of the chemicals used in
hydraulic fracturing. The amendment was adopted due to pressure from
Halliburton.
It was our understanding, based on comments Halliburton submitted to the
DEP last year, that the company’s primary objection was to the proposed
requirement that operators submit information revealing the
percentage/concentration of each chemical constituent in each additive.
They wanted the chemicals to be delinked or unlinked from the additives
to prevent competitors from reverse engineering their additive mixtures.
However, the amendment adopted by Senate EIM goes beyond
delinking/disaggregating the concentrations of chemical constituent
information from chemical additive information. It allows operators and
their service providers to keep not only the concentration of the
chemicals in the additives, but also the identity of specific chemicals
a secret even from the DEP except in the case of an investigation
involving a chemical designated as a confidential trade secret. The
amendment also requires healthcare providers to sign confidentiality
agreements and sign a written statement of need in order to obtain
information about the identity or concentration of a chemical designated
as a confidential trade secret.
These changes are not protective of human health or our right to know
what chemicals are being transported on our roads, being worked with in
our communities and on farmers’ and other surface owners’ land, and
pumped in the ground below us.
The rule is now part of a DEP Rule Bundle (SB 243). SB 243 will be on
the House Judiciary Committee agenda Monday or Tuesday.
Please contact House Judiciary Committee members and tell them to
protect the public by removing the “Halliburton”/EIM amendment from the
rule. (See contact info. below.)
Ask committee members to return the Rule to the original version,
approved by the Legislative Rulemaking Review Committee.
Read Chuck Wyrostock’s op-ed regarding the Halliburton amendment here:
http://www.wvgazette.com/Opinion/OpEdCommentaries/201304040080
Thanks for taking action.
House Judiciary Committee Members:
Tim Miley, (D-Harrison), Chair
– (304) 340-3252 –
tim.miley@wvhouse.gov
Tim Manchin, (D-Marion) Vice
Chair – (304) 340-3392 –
tmanchin@manchininjurylaw.com
John Ellem (R-Wood), Minority
Chair – (304) 340-3394 –
john.ellem@wvhouse.gov
Patrick Lane (R-Kanawha),
Minority Vice Chair – (304) 340-3275 –
Patrick.lane@wvhouse.gov
Michael Ferro (D-Marshall) – (304) 340-3111 –
mike.ferro@wvhouse.gov
Barbara Fleischauer (D-Monongalia) – (304) 340-3169 –
barbaraf@wvhouse.gov
Cindy Frich (R-Monongalia) – (304) 340-3125 –
cindy.frich@wvhouse.gov
Eric Householder (R-Berkeley) – (304) 340-3274 –
eric.householder@wvhouse.gov
Bill Hamilton (R-Upshur) – (304) 340-3167 –
bill.hamilton@wvhouse.gov
Mark Hunt (D-Kanawha) – (304) 340-3366 –
mhunt@markahunt.com
Lynwood “Woody” Ireland (R-Ritchie) – (304) 340-3195 –
woody.ireland@wvhouse.gov
Linda Longstreth (D-Marion) – (304) 340-3124 –
linda.longstreth@wvhouse.gov
Mike Manypenny (D-Taylor) – (304) 340-3139 –
mike.manypenny@wvhouse.gov
Justin J. Marcum (D-Mingo) – (304) 340-3126 –
justin.marcum@wvhouse.gov
John McCuskey (R-Kanawha) – (304) 340-3183 –
john.mccuskey@wvhouse.gov
Clif Moore (D-McDowell) – (304) 340-3189 –
clif.moore@wvhouse.gov
John O’Neal IV (R-Raleigh) – (304) 340-3164 –
john.oneal@wvhouse.gov
John Overington (R-Berkeley) – (304) 340-3148 –
john@overington.com
John Pino (D-Fayette) – (304) 340-3170 –
john.pino@wvhouse.gov
Meshea L. Poore (D-Kanawha) – (304) 340-3106 –
meshea.poore@wvhouse.gov
John Shott (R-Mercer) – (304) 340-3187 –
john.shott@wvhouse.gov
Stephen Skinner (D-Jefferson) – (304) 340-3248 –
Stephen.skinner@wvhouse.gov
Kelli Sobonya (R-Cabell) – (304) 340-3175 –
kelli.sobonya@wvhouse.gov
Isaac Sponaugle (D-Pendleton) – (304) 340-3154 –
Isaac.sponaugle@wvhouse.gov
Danny Wells (D-Kanawha) – (304) 340-3287 –
danny.wells@wvhouse.gov
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Lobby For Democracy
Monday, April 8th By Barbara Frierson
Riding on the wave created by the House of Delegates passing HR 9
two weeks ago, West Virginians for Democracy and WV Citizen Action
are heading for a clean sweep by getting SR 24 out of the Senate
Judiciary Committee and passed on a roll call vote in the Senate
this week. The two resolutions call on the U S Congress to reverse
the Citizens United decision on campaign financing by "big money"
and to propose a constitutional amendment if necessary to accomplish
that.
We need to lobby every Senator in the state between now and April
13th. If you have not yet contacted your district's senator(s),
please CALL THEM NOW and tell them how important it is to you that
they support clean and fair elections, and that they represent your
interests rather than those of their financial sponsors!
Volunteers will meet on Monday, April 8, at the Robert Byrd statue
on the 2nd floor of the Capitol, near the well under the rotunda,
from 9:30 to 11 a.m. and from 1 to 4:30 p.m. Small groups will be
dispatched to visit each Senator's office with information about SR
24 and a cover letter. Please come if you can!
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Half Way There: House Approves Bill Making Supreme Court Public
Campaign Financing Program Permanent
By Julie Archer,
julie@wvcag.org
On Wednesday, the House of Delegates approved HB 2805, making the WV
Supreme Court Public Campaign Financing Program permanent. The vote
was 70-29. You can see how your Delegate(s) voted here:
http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/2013/RS/votes/house/00172.pdf
As Kathy Stoltz with the League of the Women Voters-WV said after
the bill’s passage, “This is good news for voters. We are encouraged
by this positive step toward making Supreme Court elections open to
more candidates and to candidates who want to focus on their
qualifications and the voters, not on how to pay for the campaign.
We hope the Senate will follow the House and make the public
financing option a permanent feature of Court elections.”
We are grateful to the bill’s sponsors Delegates Tim Manchin
(D-Marion), Mike Caputo (D-Marion), John Ellem (R-Wood), Barbara
Fleischauer (D-Monongalia) Nancy Guthrie (D-Kanawha), Patrick Lane
(R-Kanawha), Mike Manypenny (D-Taylor), Tim Miley (D-Harrison) Doug
Reynolds (D-Cabell), Stephen Skinner (D-Jefferson) and Harry Keith
White (D-Mingo) – especially Delegate Manchin who has championed
this issue for a number of years and who defended the bill Wednesday
on the floor. We are also grateful to Secretary of State Natalie
Tennant and her staff, all of our Citizens for Clean Elections
Coalition partners for their support and to all of you who helped us
get to this point.
As we head into the final week of the session, help us send a strong
message to the Senate. Please your Senators and urge them to support
HB 2805 and make public financing a permanent part of West Virginia
Supreme Court Elections. You can find contact information for your
Senators here:
http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Senate1/roster.cfm.
Here’s an example of what you can say:
Please support HB 2805, making the WV Supreme Court Public Campaign
Financing Program permanent. Making public financing a permanent
part of WV Supreme Court elections is the best way to rein in
campaign costs, keep special interest money out of the courtroom and
eliminate the resulting perception that justice is for sale. This
legislation is critical to ensuring the fairness and impartiality of
the WV Supreme Court of Appeals.
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We’ll keep fighting for energy efficiency in WV
By Stacy Gloss,
stacy@wvcag.org
Last week the House Judiciary Committee voted against Integrated
Resource Planning (IRP) – a common sense planning tool used in some
form by 34 other states - that provides WV Public Service Commission
(PSC) the ability to require utilities to submit their plans for
meeting future electricity needs and evaluate resources including
energy efficiency in their plan.
Despite this setback, Energy Efficient West Virginia will continue
to fight for stronger energy efficiency policies and programs
through two major utility proposals currently before the PSC. Both
of WV’s major utility companies (Appalachian Power and Mon Power)
are proposing to buy very large shares of power plants already
located and operating in West Virginia directly from subsidiaries of
their parent companies (AEP and FirstEnergy).
FirstEnergy’s Mon Power and PotomacEdison announced their plan to
buy the remaining 80% (1476 Mega-watts) of the Harrison power plant
from Allegheny Energy Supply another subsidy of FirstEnergy. The
purchase price is $1.2 Billion and will raise residential electric
rates by 6%.
Appalachian Power and Wheeling Power are planning to purchase a
total of 1667 MW (50% of the Mitchell power plant and 30% of the
John Amos power plant) from Ohio Power, another subsidiary of
Appalachian/Wheeling's parent company. Although Appalachian Power
has stated they will not raise their customer’s rates this year, the
purchase price is $1.4 Billion and power customers will have no
choice but to pay off this investment for the next 25+ years.
Neither utility adequately evaluated alternatives including energy
efficiency as the lowest cost, least risk resource.
You can tell the PSC you do not support FirstEnergy’s proposal and
as ask them to reject the plan for higher rates. To submit comments
now about FirstEnery’s case to the PSC, you may submit comments to
the PSC online or send a letter to 201 Brooks Street, Charleston, WV
25301. Be sure to include the case number 12-1571-E-PC on your
comments. Look for updates soon on how to submit comments about
Appalachian Power’s case.
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Offshore Tax Havens Cost
the Average West Virginia Taxpayer $621 a Year, The Average Small
Business $2300
With Tax Day rapidly approaching, WV Citizen Action, state partner
of Americans for Tax Fairness, released a new report today to remind
West Virginians where their tax dollars are going. The study by
PIRG, the Public Interest Research Group, revealed that the average
WV taxpayer in 2012 would have to shoulder an extra $621 in taxes to
compensate for the revenue lost due to the use of offshore tax
havens by corporations and wealthy individuals. The total cost of
making up for this lost revenue was reported as over $490 million.
Read the full report at:
www.wvcag.org
“Tax dodging is not a victimless offense. When companies use
accounting gimmicks to move their profits to tax haven shell
companies, the rest of us have to pick up the tab,” said Gary
Zuckett, Exec. Dir. West Virginia Citizen Action. “With both our
state and the nation facing such serious budget challenges, it’s a
no-brainer that we need to close these loopholes and stop letting
large corporations avoid paying what they should.”
Every year, corporations and wealthy individuals avoid paying an
estimated $150 billion in taxes by using complicated accounting
tricks to shift their profits to offshore tax havens. Of that $150
billion, $90 billion is avoided specifically by corporations.
The report, titled Picking Up the Tab, additionally found that the
average WV small business would have to pay nearly $2,300 to cover
the cost of offshore tax dodging by large corporations. Offshore tax
havens give large multinationals a competitive advantage over
responsible small businesses which don’t use tax havens and get
stuck footing the bill for corporate tax dodging.
“Local businesses do their part to make our community better,” said
Zuckett. “Their taxes help pay for roads, bridges, schools, and
other public services that customers depend on. Big corporations
should do the same and pay their fair share for the services that
helped them build their profits.”
Many of America’s largest and best-known corporations use these
complex tax avoidance schemes to shift their profits offshore and
drastically shrink their tax bill:
• Pfizer, the world’s largest drug maker, made 40
percent of its sales in the U.S. over the
past five years, but thanks to their use of offshore tax loopholes they
reported no taxable income in the U.S. during that time. The company
operates 172 subsidiaries in tax havens and has $73 billion parked
offshore which remains untaxed by the U.S., according to its own SEC
filing. That is the second highest amount of money sitting offshore for
one U.S. multinational corporation.
• Microsoft avoided $4.5 billion in federal income taxes over a three
year period by using sophisticated accounting tricks to artificially
shift its income to tax-friendly Puerto Rico. Microsoft maintains five
tax haven subsidiaries and keeps 70 percent of its cash offshore, a
total of $60.8 billion, on which it would otherwise owe $19.4 billion in
U.S. taxes.
• Citigroup – a bank that was bailed out by taxpayers during the
financial meltdown of 2008 – maintains 20 subsidiaries in tax havens and
has $42.6 billion sitting offshore, on which it would otherwise owe
$11.5 billion in taxes, according to its own SEC filing. Citigroup
currently ranks eighth among U.S. multinationals for having the most
money stashed offshore.
“It is appalling that these companies get out of paying
for the nation’s infrastructure, education system, and security that
help make them successful,” added Zuckett .
The report recommends closing a number of offshore tax loopholes. Many
of these reforms are included in the Cut Unjustified Tax Loopholes Act
(Senate Bill 268).
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Miners Rally in Capitol City
Spectacular by Norm
Steenstra, norm@wvcag.org
You all have probably seen pictures
or film of the huge United Mine Workers rally held in downtown
Charleston Monday. Well for someone who was there it was both amazing
and empowering. The environmental groups have in the past have put
together a couple of thousand-people events that were quite impressive,
yet the UMWA event dwarfed those rallies.
I have heard estimates of five, eight and ten thousand participants
Watching, (and actually unsuccessfully trying to count heads) my guess
is that maybe 10,000 folks expressed their anger and disgust at Patriot
and Peabody Coal’s attempt to strip miners and retirees health care
benefits. It was the largest West Virginia rally I ever witnessed in my
35 years in the state.
The issue in essence boiled down to corporate responsibility and triumph
of greed over that responsibility. If corporations were indeed people I
believe a couple thousand angry people would have built a scaffold and
hung Patriot Coal by the neck on Monday. It was empowering to see
several other unions and hundreds of other progressive folks walk with
the miners in expressing their out rage. I’ve almost never carried a
sign during a rally, but on Monday I proudly held a sign that said “ARE
YOU NEXT?”
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Make a Call to Pull Pentagon Pork By Maggie Fry,
maggie@wvcag.org
West Virginia will suffer when the sequester cuts combine with the
Governor’s budget cuts and we see social programs go severely
un/under-funded throughout the state. We will be sicker, more
traumatized, less educated, and our infrastructure will be more
dangerous. If you haven’t called yet, call now – it’s hard enough to
get ahead in West Virginia as it is.
Senator Manchin needs to know that his constituents realize that
most of the programs effected by the sequester could be fully funded
if Congress called for deep and meaningful cuts to Pentagon
Spending. We are finally ending our decade of war with the near
east. We need a budget that allows us to recover from the years of
pentagon pork mongering that’s crippled our economy with debt and
burdened our communities with a culture of constant war. We need to
call on Senator Manchin to be brave enough to stand up to
multibillion dollar defense contracting corporations and stand up
for our right to health, education and safe communities.
Use this number: (888) 872-1238 and ask that Senator Manchin support
a budget that values peace, rebuilding and sustainable livelihoods.
You might say something like this: “Cuts to our communities. Cuts to
our families. That’s the last thing we need after we’ve struggled
for so long. Tell Congress: Repeal the sequester. Instead, end
wasteful Pentagon spending and make the big corporations and
millionaires pay their fair share. No more cuts.
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Don’t Forget Medicaid
Expansion This Sunday: STATEWIDE FORUM and Training
If Gov. Tomblin says “yes” to Medicaid Expansion, the Federal
Government will provide more than 90 percent of the costs to pay for
health insurance for families who are working but making less than
138 percent of the federal poverty line. The rest of the costs will
come from the enormous savings from families no longer relying on
costly emergency room care. Governors across the country, including
8 Republican and all Democratic Governors have said yes to Medicaid
expansion because it is good for their state’s budget, economy, and
health. The program would create 6200 new jobs in West Virginia
alone!
Sunday, April 7, Charleston
Christ Church United Methodist, 1221 Quarrier
2:00pm – 3:30pm (Doors open 1:30pm)
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Film Screening Hosted
by West Virginia Legislature
Monday, April 8 at the Culture Center in Charleston will be a
screening of a documentary on hunger in America, A Place at the
Table at 6PM. Immediately following will be a panel discussion
featuring film director Lori Silverbush and food expert Dr. Janet
Poppendieck. For more information, contact Paul Sheridan at
paul.sheridan@wvsenate.gov or 304-357-4490.)
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Gazette Legislative Roundup
In case you missed this editorial from Wednesday’s Charleston
Gazette, we’ve included it here for your legislative reading
pleasure. Though WVCAG doesn’t necessarily endorse all of the
opinions expressed in it, the editorial marks well the topography of
public policy concerns in this wild social body we call West
Virginia.
“Only 10 days remain in the 2013 regular legislative session, and
it's time to start assessing results. Here goes:
Gun zealotry -- In the wake of the Connecticut
massacre of first-graders, the House of Delegates plunged into a
frenzy for guns, with 33 pro-gun bills introduced. The House
overwhelmingly passed House Bill 2760 to revoke local gun safety
laws in Charleston and other cities -- but the Senate blocked it
after gun fanatics made a death threat against a senator. Meanwhile,
still-pending HB2504 would jail federal officials who enforce U.S.
gun laws, and HB2911 would hide the names of thousands of West
Virginians with permits to carry hidden, loaded pistols. Was the
House orgy a cynical ploy by most delegates to win votes from
gun-lovers?
School reform -- Gov. Tomblin's attempt to raise
West Virginia learning scores was watered down to suit teacher
unions, but it still contains a few good steps such as longer school
years and all-day pre-school classes for 4-year-olds. However,
school reform crusader Charles McElwee points out that the
Legislature has passed education changes every year for 24 years,
yet student scores remain in the cellar. Will any improvement occur?
Prisons -- The conservative "lock 'em up" mentality
caused West Virginia's inmate population to soar from 1,000 in the
1970s to more than 7,000 today. Rather than spend $250 million for
another prison, the Senate passed SB371, in its very first roll-call
vote, to put more nonviolent offenders into probation and
rehabilitation. We hope the House concurs.
Cigarette tax -- Health researchers say that adding
$1 to West Virginia's cigarette tax would save multitudes of teens
from nicotine addiction, avoiding 11,800 early deaths and $17
million annual medical costs, bringing the state an extra $120
million revenue. Senators Brooks McCabe, Ron Stollings, Jeff Kessler
and Roman Prezioso introduced such a bill March 21 -- but observers
predict it will have little chance against Gov. Tomblin's
no-new-taxes vow. That's a shame. (Update: SB 593 did not pass
through the Health and Human Resources Committee)
Human rights -- More than 30 states have expanded
their hate crimes laws to cover "gay bashing" attacks, and 21 have
passed human rights laws that protect gays from being fired from
jobs or evicted from apartments, just because of their orientation.
Many cities, including Charleston, have done likewise. In the
Legislature, House Bill 2856 would have extended job and housing
protection to gays. But rural fundamentalist prejudice caused it to
be weakened so badly that the sponsor -- the only openly gay
delegate -- withdrew the bill. Will West Virginia be the last place
in America to take this step for fairness and decency? The bill
should be brought back and put to a vote, making a public record of
each legislator's stand.
Online sales -- For decades, West Virginia has
struggled to collect the state's 6 percent sales tax on mail-order
and Internet purchases shipped into the state. So far, officials are
collecting about $5 million a year -- but University of Tennessee
researchers estimate that West Virginia loses about $50 million a
year. Gov. Tomblin backed a bill to beef up collections. We hope it
passes, because local merchants are cheated by the current system
that forces them to collect sales tax, but lets out-of-state sellers
duck the obligation, giving them a 6 percent price advantage.
Medicaid expansion -- Under ObamaCare, state
Medicaid could be expanded to cover about 120,000 "working poor"
West Virginia families who earn less than 138 percent of the poverty
level. Supporters say this would bring $500 million of federal funds
to the state and create 6,000 jobs. It would be a humane step toward
assuring that health care is a human right. The state Healthy Kids
and Families Coalition is urging legislators to sign a mass letter
urging Gov. Tomblin to accept the expansion. Go for it.
Blue law -- Old-time religious strictures, called
"blue laws," rapidly are being wiped out around America. West
Virginia still has one, forbidding retailers to sell liquor on the
Sabbath and forbidding clubs and restaurants to sell drinks during
Sunday church hours. The House Judiciary Committee approved a bill
to wipe out this relic. We hope it passes. (Update: HB 2946 was
removed from the calendar during its third reading)
Library rescue -- After the state Supreme Court
relieved several county school boards of responsibility to aid
county libraries -- throwing Kanawha County's library system into
peril -- legislators drafted a plan to require all local school
boards to divert 1 percent of their budgets for libraries. We hope
it passes.
School lunches -- The state Senate passed SB663 to
provide free lunches and breakfasts to every public school child in
West Virginia -- not just to low-income ones. This seems healthy and
reasonable. We hope the House concurs. Nearly all state leaders and
educators say it would boost learning, because hungry children can't
concentrate in school. Likewise, legislators should mandate more
fitness efforts in schools, because obesity also hinders learning.
Medical pot -- "Compassionate" use of marijuana to
ease pain of cancer victims and other sufferers would be allowed
under HB2230. Why not? Pot is much safer than OxyContin and other
painkillers that cause widespread addiction -- yet those pills are
legal and pot possession remains a crime. West Virginia should join
18 states that allow medical marijuana.” (Update: HB2230 did not
pass out of the house)"
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