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Photo by Perry Bennett/ WV Legislative Photography FAIRMONT — The West Virginia Legislature is set to convene Feb. 10 and Marion County’s members are already evaluating issues that should be addressed in the coming session. The 2020 session concluded just before the start of the coronavirus pandemic, so the representatives are looking at ways to improve the state’s shortcomings that were brought about by the pandemic. Broadband internet access is a recurring topic in the legislature and will be tackled again in 2021. “One thing we should all agree on is this pandemic has taught us that we are so far behind the curve on broadband internet services across West Virginia,” said Sen. Mike Caputo, D-13. “Children that had to do distance learning that live in certain parts of the state, and our district as well, had to go to parking lots to do homework, and that shouldn’t be like that in 2020.

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