The Wheels on the Bus...
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Thursday, July 19.
This morning I had the distinct pleasure of attending a session of the WV House of Delegates Supreme Court Impeachment Hearings. Unfortunately, there’s no punchline to that set up.
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Depletion & Pepperoni Rolls
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The state of West Virginia will pay $950 million this year to insure public employees through the Public Employee’s Insurance Agency (PEIA). That rate is projected to go up 5 or 6 percent every year. That’s an additional 50 or 60 million dollars a year, but of course that amount will rise. I’m not supposed to do math in public, but, near as I can figure, if the premiums go up 5% every year, than the state will be paying $2 billion dollars in a couple of decades.
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Sen. Manchin Uses Heimlich to Save Fellow Senator
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Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) performed the Heimlich maneuver on Sen. Claire McCaskill, a Democrat from Missouri, when Sen. McCaskill began choking at a meal attended by several senators.
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Benevolent Mothman
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Photo Credit: WV Division of Culture & History
“If I would have known that the guy in Clendenin was going to the bathroom in the port-a-potty every day and there really wasn’t anybody there to help him, but if I would have been sitting on the top of the dome 24-7, I wouldn’t have known about the guy in Clendenin.”
-Governor Jim Justice, WV MetroNews
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Legalizing Marijuana
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I grew up in the Nancy Reagan Just Say No era. I don’t do drugs, except the legal ones. I’m not positive recreational marijuana is great idea. I don’t want my kids smoking dope, or anything else. It seems like medical marijuana is a good idea for certain folks.
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For The People or Buy The People
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I could live anywhere. I’m fortunate that the nature of my job lets me pick where I want to live. And I want to live here.
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