Hotline on Call reports on the latest developments in West Virginia on the Senate vacancy created after Senator Byrd’s passing. The Hill covers afternoon developments, as well. Democrats and Republicans in West Virginia say political momentum is moving toward a November 2010 special election to fill the late-Sen. Robert Byrd’s seat but there are several […]
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Public financing news and comment in West Virginia
The Times endorses West Virginia’s public financing system for supreme court judicial races in this editorial. West Virginia, which will join North Carolina, New Mexico and Wisconsin in adopting public financing of judicial races, is setting a good example at a time when judicial neutrality and the appearance of neutrality is under severe threat across […]
West Virginia campaign finance reform advances
It’s getting harder and harder to keep track of what’s going on across the country in terms of states moving to change their laws after Citizens United. Here’s the latest on reforms advancing in West Virginia.