Tag Archive for: Data Centers

Data Centers: Talk of the Panhandle

The topic of data centers is contentious for communities actually or potentially impacted by them. It's so contentious that our Republican dominated legislature has taken away the rights of these communities to regulate them and even to have them at all. John Doyle makes the case that these community rights legislated away for now have to be reconsidered and restored in future legislative sessions.

We Have Come To an Inflection Point

It is a given that our Republican governor, Patrick Morrisey, wants to push as many data centers into the state as it will hold. And worse, he wants to do this without local community input. Stewart Acuff lays out the massive hurt that this will cause to our state and argues for a defiant stand in our upcoming elections to un-elect those legislators that sold us out.
This is the way arrows

A Chaotic Conclusion to the 2026 Legislative Session

The WV Legislator meets for two winter months to decide on new legislation which (with the governor's signing) will make its way into law. John Doyle gives a wrap of the 2026 session and tells the sad tale that Jefferson County came away with just about nothing of consequence. And worse, the chaotic close of the session meant that even the good bills which made it to the final votes, failed to even get those votes. The clock ran out.