Archive for February, 2009
Chesapeake takes parting shot
Charleston Daily Mail
Feb 27, 2009
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Chesapeake Energy Corp. on Thursday not only announced it will downsize its Charleston office, it sent the state a stinging message: West Virginia’s legal system hurts business.The company said the jobs of 215 of its Charleston-based employees will either be moved to Oklahoma City or eliminated in the [...]
Now for testimony from the targeted
Charleston Daily Mail
Feb 20, 2009
Elizabeth Thornburg – once a visiting professor at the law school at West Virginia Univer-sity, now of the Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law – warned members of the state Senate’s Judiciary Committee this week to distrust those who say West Virginia is “a tort hell.””These reports are misleading,” she [...]
Priority 1 for lawmakers; jobs, jobs, jobs.
Charleston Daily Mail
Feb 09, 2009
With the start of the 2009 legislative session upon us, it is clear that the number-one thing that should be on the minds of legislators is jobs. West Virginia, like nearly every other state in America, has begun to feel the effects of the national downturn.The good times we have had [...]
The 7 Worst States to Start a Business
U.S. News & World Report
Feb 02, 2009
These states place high burdens on entrepreneurs
There are many reasons why you would want to start a business in one state rather than another. But the reasons are probably going to fall into two broad categories: First, what does that state’s economic environment offer in terms of things that [...]
