04 March 2009

Legislature 2009: Day 22

  • The Associated Press reports on the opening salvoes from lawmakers seeking to improve health care in West Virginia: one bill that would more than double the cigarette tax, and another to "require chain restaurants to post calorie counts in places where diners can easily see the information."
  • Not all legislators have given up on the quest for pay raises for teachers and other public employees, the Daily Mail reports.
  • Wood County's delegation is divided over a bill one of them introduced to "make it illegal for insurance companies to refuse or cancel a policy or increase a premium based on credit scores," the News and Sentinel of Parkersburg reports.
  • The Daily Mail highlights one lawmaker's concern that stores are illegally selling individual cigarettes.

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