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Group seeking exotic animal rules won't give up
Welcome to “Wild, Wonderful, West Virginia,” and that slogan remains applicable to exotic animals born outside the majestic mountains, since the Legislature failed to turn in legislation acceptable to Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin.
One of his few vetoes this year was SB477, aimed at letting the Division of Natural Resources impose rules on keeping animals not native to West Virginia.
Born Free USA promoted the legislation, offered by Senate President Jeffrey Kessler, D-Marshall, and group isn’t letting defeat in this past session stop it from stepping to the plate a year from now, says program associate Tracy Coppola.

April 16, 2012
Drug bill ready for House floor showdown
Except for one new wrinkle in the amount of cold and allergy remedies a consumer may buy, Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin’s massive anti-drug bill is ready for a showdown on the floor of the House of Delegates.
Judiciary panelists burned the midnight oil Tuesday before finally agreeing on the proposal, which now limits medications with pseudoephedrine — the critical element in making meth — to 7.5 grams per month, and 24 grams within a year.
Sufferers could get more of the 15 common cold and allergy medicines with a doctor’s prescription, if their illnesses were deemed severe.
Tomblin’s bill survived a number of efforts to impose a “prescription only” limit on such medications. Instead, the bill relies on real-time monitoring through the NPLEx system.

March 7, 2012
Revitalization report says WVU-Tech football must go
Millions of dollars are needed at struggling WVU-Tech if it is to survive, and with money increasingly hard to come by, the school no longer can afford to field a football team, a long-awaited revitalization report concluded Tuesday.

October 11, 2011
Potter Jeff Diehl has kept wheel turning for 30 years
Area potter Jeff Diehl is celebrating 30 years of Lockbridge Pottery and making what he calls “hand-made objects that feed the soul.”

September 2, 2010 1 Photo
Lawmakers eyed a third of measures in committee
From debating the merits of abortion-related legislation to questioning why West Virginia taxes beer by 31-gallon barrels, state lawmakers spent plenty of time in committees during their just-completed regular session.

March 21, 2010
Fireworks bill a dud in House committee
March 9, 2010
Green disputes claims that oil & gas oversight change will open door fo Marcellus shale operations
March 3, 2010