AIRCRAFT TAXES (Update): School administrators tell the Charleston Daily Mail that the governor's proposed tax break for corporate and commercial aircraft should not hurt their funding, which comes from property taxes. The article estimates the annual price tag for Kanawha County at $800,000.
COACH HIRINGS: The Register-Herald highlights a bill "requiring certain qualifications for school coaches." “The policy right now is very much like the rest of the personnel law within the education system, which is whoever has the most seniority gets the job," sponsor and Sen. Clark Barnes, R-Randolph, tells the Beckley newspaper. "If the teacher wants the job, the teacher gets the job.”
VICTIMS' RIGHTS: The family of a man murdered in 1990 are among the supporters of legislation to give crime victims or their survivors a greater voice in court proceedings. The Dominion Post of Morgantown tells the story of Jan and Roger McQuaid and details the pending bill.
VIDEO AMBER ALERT: "West Virginia could become the first state required to use traffic video surveillance to track missing children during Amber Alert activations," the Daily Mail reports, quoting lawmakers.
WORKERS' COMPENSATION: MetroNews reviews two proposals that aim to help complete the privatization of West Virginia's program.
11 February 2008
Session Shorts, Day 34
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I can't understand how the SCOTUS rationalized the testimony of victims' families, as to the effects of the crime, during the determination of guilt phase of a trial.
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