Editorials - Primary Election 2004

Campaign Promises Pale Amid
The Need For True Prosperity In West Virginia
By SAMANTHA PERRY
Bluefield Daily Telegraph, May 5, 2004

Editorial: Supreme Court
State's future rests with fair court, but how can we trust McGraw?
Beckley Register-Herald, May 3, 2004

Endorsements: Justice
12 more years of disinvestment, or a turn toward economic growth
Charleston Daily Mail, May 3, 2004

Editorial: Supreme Court
Rowe would bring calm
The Charleston Gazette, April 28, 2004

Justice Disturbingly Off Base In Comments About Editorial
Beckley Register-Herald, April 5, 2004

Justice
West Virginia can recover if voters change the state Supreme Court
Charleston Daily Mail, April 5, 2004

Starcher Outburst
The State Journal, March 25, 2004
State Supreme Court Justice Larry Starcher disrupted a meet-the-candidates event last week in Charleston, shouting from the audience at Judge James J. Rowe, a Greenbrier County Democrat who is running against incumbent Justice Warren McGraw.

Decisions
The state Supreme Court should issue decisions before the primary
Charleston Daily Mail, March 24, 2004
Critics complain that a pro-plaintfif, business-hostile majority on the state Supreme Court -- Justices Warren McGraw, Joe Albright and Larry Starcher -- hurts the state's economy.  The high court does have the power to affect the state's business climate. Rulings hostile to business mean few corporations are willing to risk capital here. And when businesses either won't consider West Virginia or decide to bail out of it, say the advocates for economic growth, West Virginians don't get jobs.

It’s Time To Fix Flaws In State’s Justice System
The Herald-Dispatch, March 15, 2004