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From United Steelworkers president Leo W. Gerard (also covered by Ed Schultz's show today): On Dec. 18, a dozen retirees, men and women in their 60s, 70s, even 80s, began occupying a median strip along Route 33 in front of the closed Century Aluminum smelter in Ravenswood, W.Va. In tents and under tarps, a small group stays overnight, despite hypertension, arthritis and other old age ailments....
West Virginia Blue - Tue 5:46 p.m. - 14 clicks 
Unbelievable that not only is he co-sponsoring the bill to authorize the Keystone Pipeline, he was the ONLY Democrat to do so. I am officially ashamed of him. I am reminded of the Democratic Convention in '08, when he spoke and oh so carefully avoided any mention of then candidate Obama, he was so wary of aligning himself with him. I was shamed into voting for him by my fellow Democrats, but you k...
West Virginia Blue - Tue 10:03 a.m. - 12 clicks
Earlier it was a perennial GOP candidate who lives in Florida and has to fly in to Maryland to make his campaign announcement, and now the Republicans give us an attorney general candidate who wasn't even licensed to practice law in the state until last week . The Republican running to be the state's chief lawyer was not licensed to practice law in West Virginia until last week, according to re...
West Virginia Blue - Tue 8:49 a.m. - 16 clicks
Mitt Romney pays a lower tax rate than the average West Virginian and he "earned" $46 million while telling people he's unemployed . He doesn't work for a living because he inherited a lot of money and just owning lots of money helps him make even more ridiculous amounts of money that are taxed at a lower rate than the rest of us who pay our fair share and work for a living . That mo...
West Virginia Blue - Jan 24 - 2 clicks
Paper of Record , and sometimes the truth. In a second development on Friday, the justices blocked a decision of a federal court in West Virginia in another election case while the justices consider an appeal. The West Virginia case concerns whether that state's three House districts must be absolutely equal in population. There was some Texas stuff in there, too, now that Gov. Perry is ba...
West Virginia Blue - Jan 20
While West Virginia coal-fed politicians haven't wanted coal operators held accountable for poisoning West Virginia, the law says otherwise . Ken Ward Jr.: In federal court down in Huntington, attorneys for the Sierra Club and other groups have just filed copies of a major lawsuit settlement that insiders are saying could require Patriot Coal to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to treat ...
West Virginia Blue - Jan 18 - 8 clicks
West Virginians will rally February 1, 2012 at 7 pm at the Earth Dog Cafe in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia. They will rally for the corporate death penalty -- say goodbye to private health insurance corporations. Check out the poster and story here. ...
West Virginia Blue - Jan 18 - 8 clicks
Remember when people in Charleston made fun of how often Sen. John Unger (D) would bring up Mother Teresa? That's how many of us feel about how often Sen. Joe Manchin whenever he misuses and overuses the words "common sense." ...
West Virginia Blue - Jan 18 - 8 clicks
China has become more capitalistic and worried about the long-term effects of climate change on its economy than the West Virginia coal apparatchiks who rise and cheer in support of the coal industry despite the massive harm it is doing to the state and the people. Global warming threatens China's march to prosperity by cutting crops, shrinking rivers and unleashing more droughts and floods, s...
West Virginia Blue - Jan 18 - 8 clicks
Gazette: CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Hulett Carlson Smith, West Virginia's governor from 1965 to 1969, whose term was marked by several disasters and the state's first attempt to regulate the strip mining industry, died on Sunday in Scottsdale, Ariz., at the age of 93. He had a hand in one of the things we can truly be proud of, when it comes to W.Va. government: He also signed legislation a...
West Virginia Blue - Jan 17 - 9 clicks
From the Daily Kos: • WV-Sen: Hahahahahahahahah! Oh, too, too priceless! Uber-rich businessman John Raese received a ton of crap last year (deservedly so) for actually being a resident of Florida while running for Senate in West Virginia. (Here's a sample DSCC ad.) So how did he launch his bid for a rematch against Dem Sen. Joe Manchin, the guy who thoroughly beat him last year? "It just seemed...
West Virginia Blue - Jan 17 - 9 clicks
So one redistricting plan introduced by Sen. John Unger would put the two Panhandles together in one Congressional district. This has the advantage of putting the two areas the rest of the state would like to get rid of into one Congressional District and leave the State of Kanawha intact. The disadvantage is it doesn't put Capito up against McKinley, although some say that's a feature and not a b...
West Virginia Blue - Jan 16
The long-time attorney general filed his certificate of announcement with the WV SOS on Monday. His campaign site is here. No word on who the big business/Chamber-backed challenger he typically faces will be, but with Citizens United in effect, you can be sure one is coming. ...
West Virginia Blue - Jan 13
Despite being rejected by W.Va. voters in 1984, 1988, 2006 and 2010, Florida Republican and minimum wage opponent John Raese can't take 'no' for an answer, and is ready to waste the millions he inherited on yet another futile effort. State Journal: John Raese, who ran against Joe Manchin to complete Robert C. Byrd's unexpired U.S. Senate term in 2010, has filed to run for the same seat in 201...
West Virginia Blue - Jan 12
