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Ohio Senate Judiciary Committee to Hear ?Castle Doctrine? Legislation&, RSS Feed, Politics & Hot Topics, 0, 01-25-2008 09:10 AM. Vital NRA-Backed Legislation Moving Through West Virginia House! RSS Feed, Politics & Hot Topics ...

In a recent column for our local newspaper, a member of The Family Policy Council of West Virginia expressed support for such a divisive and unneeded “Marriage Amendment.” I wish he would ask himself why law-abiding, taxpaying Lesbian ...

Dueling with these national groups in West Virginia was the Virginia-based Center for Competitive Politics, according to an Associated Press article. The public financing proposal is aimed at insulating courts from special-interest ...

(Politics Daily conservative columnist Pete Wehner, a Rove White House deputy, is credited with helping "craft every chapter and episode"). While Rove gets a tingle up his leg when he meets a future president for the first time in 1973 (" George W. ... About the only true masterstroke that I can attribute to Rove was his stubborn belief in 2000 that Bush could carry West Virginia, a state so reliably Democratic that it even went for the hapless Michael Dukakis in 1988. ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Many West Virginia seniors don't know where to turn when they think they have been scammed, according to an AARP West Virginia survey released Tuesday. The group is trying to get the word out about its toll-free Helpline (877-677 ...

Americans have come to detest Congress ever more deeply as it nears the end of a nasty fight over health care. But more than half still back President Barack Obama, a bright spot for a Democratic Party counting on its leader to help stave off ...

The commission's November report noted that West Virginia's Supreme Court "appears to be the only court of last resort in the entire country that currently does not assess a filing fee of any sort." Fees now include up to $70 for magistrate court ...

Randall Reid-Smith, commissioner of the state Division of Culture and History, regales state senators with a medley of West Virginia songs after they honored him with a resolution for "making the Culture Center and the West Virginia State Museum a ...

The states originally covered by the recall are: Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, West ...

Nothing lasts forever, even in West Virginia politics, and contingency planning is an acceptable practice. But no one sees any movement toward bringing clarity to the process. Dan Page is editor and publisher of The State Journal. His e-mail address ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Attempts to expand campaign finance rules have twice fallen short, but West Virginia lawmakers are trying again -- and this time they hope to bring shareholders along with them. The House of Delegates passed a pair of measures ...

President Barack Obama met Tuesday with Cabinet members and key senators from both parties in a bid to move forward on a long-stalled climate and energy bill. More than a dozen senators met with Obama, four Cabinet members and White House energy ...

Elected officials in West Virginia need to put patients before politics and pass meaningful health care legislation now." Nationally, ACS CAN, the advocacy affiliate to the American Cancer Society, has joined forces with Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity ...

The fate of President Obama's plan to shift America toward renewable energy and away from fossil fuels may depend on the outcome of a crucial White House meeting Tuesday with 14 key senators, many from coal- and oil-producing states, who have long ...