House and Senate conferees completed work on the 2010-11 state budget bill Thursday afternoon. House Finance Chairman Harry Keith White, D-Mingo, said the budget includes an additional $15 million for Medicaid waiver programs to provide in-home care to senior citizens and for persons with developmental disabilities.
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New York Governor David Paterson replaced a governor caught up in a scandal. Now Paterson is accused of wrongdoing himself and has declined to run for election. Facing a myriad of challenges, including a $9 billion budget shortfall, Paterson is finding it difficult to be effective in his final months in office.
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Another technical error has prompted Gov. Joe Manchin to veto a recently passed bill, this one addressing private game farms. The legislation proposed a new misdemeanor when someone kills or injures a game farm animal without the owner's permission.
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Stan and Janet Norman are running for office whether they like it or not. The Beckley couple are in the middle of a mix-up that has them on the ballot for seats on the state Republican Executive Committee in Wood County, about 135 miles from their home. They want to be on the Raleigh County ballot, but state and local elections officials say the ballots have been certified and have to remain as they are.
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Several groups are running television advertisements this week urging U.S. Rep. Alan Mollohan to vote in favor of the comprehensive health-care legislation before Congress.
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A bill that would lead to a system of ATV trails in Eastern Kentucky was approved by a House committee Thursday. House Bill 173, sponsored by Rep. Keith Hall, D-Phelps, would connect to similar trail systems in West Virginia and south-western Virginia.
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Public pensions are increasingly asking a question that has haunted investors since the financial crisis: When is an alternative investment really more of the same?
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WASHINGTON—Republicans are looking beyond Sunday's expected vote on the Democrats' health-care overhaul to focus on strategies for striking back should it pass, ranging from challenges to the measure by individual states to a national repeal campaign.
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Gov. Joe Manchin III (D) Elected: November 2004 Term expires: January 2009
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