The VLW Blog

The Society of Professional Journalists is helping the Virginia Tech student newspaper with its legal fight to get information from the West Virginia State Police.
The Collegiate Times will receive $1,000 from the society’s legal defense fund to help obtain investigation records relating to the 1998 disappearance of Tech student Robert Kovack, according to The Roanoke [...]

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The new owner of the West Virginia resort hopes to have a full-scale casino open by April, reports The Associated Press.

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U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Kevin Huennekens agreed to dismiss the case involving The Greenbrier resort, leaving it to new owner Jim Justice to steer the hotel out of debt.
According to the Charleston Gazette, Justice vowed to pay the resort’s creditors in full immediately from a $17 million escrow fund.
Now, Justice can focus on restoring the five-star [...]

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The resort’s new owner says that he wants to build a $20 million casino and hire 600 new workers by the end of this year.
The Greenbrier would offer “tasteful gaming,” Jim Justice tells the Charleston Gazette, “but in an aggressive way.”
He expects to have an architectural drawing of the casino by June, and anticipates that [...]

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The Greenbrier Hotel Corp. has filed for Chapter 11 protection in the U.S. bankruptcy court in Richmond, but hopes to continue operations without any changes, according to a company news release.
The popular West Virginia resort seeks approval of a plan that would transfer its assets to Marriott Hotel Services, Inc. with near-term operations financed by [...]

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West Virginia’s governor has turned to Donald Trump as a possible purchaser of the famed Greenbrier resort, a favorite meeting spot for Virginia legal groups.
Gov. Joe Manchin tells the Associated Press Trump is one of several potential buyers he’s approached on behalf of The Greenbrier.  Trump returned Manchin’s phone call late last week.  The governor [...]

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One West Virginia legislator has a simple proposal to get the changes he wants in the West Virginia code.  His one-page bill would have West Virginia substitute the Virginia code for the existing West Virginia statutes.
“By adopting Virginia’s laws, we would get capital punishment, right to work, tort reform – a whole raft of issues,” [...]

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From the Love Stinks Department:
It’s not quite as provocative as the Chicago billboard last year featuring a buff dude and a scantily clad babe and proclaiming, “Life’s short. Get a divorce.”
But the message is pretty much the same. The Associated Press reports that a radio station in Charleston, W.Va., is auctioning off a [...]

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