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From an email: The 2010 Jefferson-Jackson Dinner is just over a month away! The dinner will be held Saturday, April 17, at the Charleston Civic Center. This year's keynote speaker will be former U. S. Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD). Democratic Party Chairman Nick Casey believes that while our nation is recovering from a national and global recession, people are interested in p...
West Virginia Blue - Sat 5:28 a.m. - 3 clicks 
From an email: CONTACT ALL HOUSE OF DELEGATES MEMBERS! Ask them to REFUSE to concur with: HB 4277 - giving DEP Secretary signature authority for water quality permits. HB 4513 - Marcellus Shale "Water Bill". Please take the time early Saturday to call or e-mail your Delegates and especially the Speaker of the House, Rick Thompson. Ask them to REFUSE to concur with the Senate versions o...
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It's the second Friday! The snow is gone and reconciliation is in the air. 8:00PM, Peking Restaurant , 139 S. Queen Street, Martinsburg is the time and place. ...
West Virginia Blue - Fri 5:46 a.m. - 4 clicks
By Clem Guttata A big thank you to Sens. Byrd and Rockefeller for voting for the extension of jobless benefits . The Senate approved $140 billion in extended tax breaks and unemployment benefits on Wednesday in a largely partisan vote. The bill was approved on a 62-36 vote, with six Republicans joining most Democrats in backing it. Senate Democrats are calling the measure a jobs bill, tho...
West Virginia Blue - Fri 4:04 a.m. - 3 clicks
CA_Berkeley_WV in the comments of One Citizen's post : I watched the Senate Finance and Health Committee markups live blogging most of it before that big check for Soros arrived I bought new pajamas and a case of Cheetos. I watched the voting patters of West Virginia native Sen. Tom Carper D-DE, MR Ducks Sen. Blanche Lincoln D-AR, very serious Sen. Jeff Bingaman D-NM and budget scold Sen....
West Virginia Blue - Thu 10:33 a.m. - 3 clicks
As of today, 40 Democratic senators have spoken in favor of establishing a public option through the reconciliation process - including Harry Reid. For those of you keeping tabs, Senator Rockefeller is still uncommitted, even though eighty percent of his colleagues on the left side of the aisle are. Golly, I seem to recall Senator Rockefeller being so strongly in favor of the public option th...
West Virginia Blue - Thu 5:48 a.m. - 4 clicks
Posted by Calhouner Here is your reminder to come to the PSC hearing Thursday evening. The WV Public Service Commission will be holding a public hearing on the December 2009 blackout that struck southern and central West Virginia. The PSC is in the middle of studying the causes of the blackout. The hearing will be held on Thursday, March 11 at 6:00 p.m. at he Harrison County Recreation ...
West Virginia Blue - Wed 7:47 a.m. - 3 clicks
Sad news from New Hampshire: Campaign finance activist Doris "Granny D" Haddock, who walked across the country pushing for reform at age 90, died last night surrounded by family in her Dublin home. She was 100. [..] "She always said she'd live to be 100, and she did," Jim Haddock, her son, said. Born in Laconia in 1910, Haddock was drawn to politics in 1960, when she opposed a plan to te...
West Virginia Blue - Wed 1:43 a.m. - 5 clicks
