July 5th, 2023 by WCBC Radio

West Virginia is celebrating more than Independence Day this week. Governor Jim Justice announced that the state’s cumulative revenue collections for Fiscal Year 2023 will come in at $1.8 billion over estimates – making it the biggest single-year revenue surplus in state history.  Governor Justice, recovering from emergency gallbladder surgery, made remarks that the surplus is proof that the days of West Virginia being known as poor, backward, and behind the times are over…