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Smaller and regional colleges and universities made $132,000 in illegal payments to an association that was created to lobby on their behalf, according to a legislative audit released Monday.
In 2013, the West Virginia Association of Regional Colleges and Universities was created as a 501(c)6 organization through the IRS and was registered with the West Virginia Secretary of State’s office in May 2014. The organization was exclusively comprised of college and university presidents, who are state employees.
The group which included presidents of Bluefield State College, Concord University, Glenville State College, Shepherd University, West Liberty University and West Virginia State University was dissolved in November 2015 after failing to submit annual filings and fees, which no longer authorized them to legally conduct business in West Virginia.
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Even as the pandemic forced states to shift their policy priorities and grapple with the economic downturn during the 2020 legislative session, governments continued to enact major reforms to economic development tax incentives. And as more states across the country implement processes to regularly produce high-quality, rigorous evaluations of such programs, lawmakers increasingly use findings from these reports to inform policies that ensure that incentives are effective, accountable, and fiscally sound.
For example, New Jersey previously lacked a process to regularly evaluate its flagship economic development incentives. One-time incentive reviews published in 2018 and 2019 identified design, administration, and cost issues that guided several years of debate among policymakers and stakeholders. In December, lawmakers reached an agreement on how to replace these programs. The legislation creates and amends incentives for job creation and retention, real estate devel
Governor Laura Kelly Signs Several Pieces of Bipartisan Legislation
TOPEKA – Governor Laura Kelly today signed several bipartisan bills that will implement meaningful changes for Kansans, communities, and businesses.
HB 2071, as amended, would amend the definition of the crime of stalking to include intentionally engaging in a course of conduct targeted at a specific child under the age of 14 that would cause a reasonable person in the circumstances of the targeted child, or a reasonable person in the circumstances of an immediate family member of such child, to fear for such child’s safety.
HB 2085 creates the Students’ Right to Know Act, which requires the Kansas State Department of Education (KSDE) to ensure the distribution, electronic or otherwise, of certain information to all students in grades 7 through 12. Information to be distributed will include:
As bills pile up for many jobless workers, stateâs âdinosaurâ benefits system provides only frustration
By Katie Johnston Globe Staff,Updated March 1, 2021, 6:15 p.m.
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Marie Justice-Hughes, a pediatric nurse, waited for an Uber to arrive to take her to work. She got COVID and has been struggling to get back to full-time work and hasn t gotten her unemployment benefits for the past eight weeks.Suzanne Kreiter/Globe staff
For many Massachusetts workers who lost their jobs during the pandemic, the stress of being laid off has been magnified by the Sisyphean effort to navigate a balky unemployment system that has been hammered by more than 2.7 million new claims filed since mid-March of last year.