Beacon News West Virginia

31/05/2026

Rescue in the New River Gorge:

30/05/2026

👍🏻 Thumbs up to the new limited edition license plates made available by the WV DMV 🇺🇸 🎉

Learn how to get yours:
https://transportation.wv.gov/DMV/News/Pages/United-States-250th-Anniversary-Limited-Edition-License-Plate.aspx

30/05/2026

Beartown isn’t a “photo place.” It’s a “go see it for yourself” place... 😉

📍Beartown State Park
📸 IG stephpurk_photography

30/05/2026

Excerpts from recent Jefferson County Town Hall:

30/05/2026

29/05/2026

And Certificate of Need (CON) laws enable monopolies in healthcare, which is why you see the WV Hospital Association lobbying and giving financial support to policymakers who will vote in their interest.

While bureaucrats process paperwork, West Virginians are waiting for care. CON laws force providers to get government permission before they can expand services or open new facilities—a process that can drag on for months or even years. Patients deserve better.

29/05/2026

More of this in America, please ❤️ 🇺🇸

28/05/2026

Check out this great new restaurant in Fayetteville, WV and enter their drawing for FREE STUFF 🌴🦋🍔🥗❤️

28/05/2026

Hear! Hear!

"In 2027, I will introduce a constitutional amendment to make the West Virginia State Board of Education elected by the people and restore accountability to our education system." - WV Delegate S. Chris Anders

I was truly shocked today.

I just left my stepdaughter’s school awards ceremony, and honestly, I was stunned.

Not one award for academic achievement.

Not one.

Instead, awards for things like “best smile” and other feel-good categories, while West Virginia students rank near the bottom academically and taxpayers are spending roughly $17,000 per student in Berkeley County.

Let this sink in:

75% of West Virginia 4th graders are NOT proficient in reading.

69% are NOT proficient in 4th grade math.

79% of 8th graders are NOT proficient in reading.

83% are NOT proficient in 8th grade math.

We have increased education spending by over a billion dollars statewide since 2017, despite having around 30,000 fewer students.

More bureaucracy.

More administrators.

Lower standards.

Worse results.

And somehow we are supposed to pretend this is success?

This is not the fault of teachers working hard every day in classrooms. The problem is the system, a top-heavy bureaucracy more focused on feelings and social engineering than achievement, discipline, and preparing kids for real life.

Children will never achieve true freedom if they are not taught how to achieve in order to obtain it.

Freedom requires discipline.

Freedom requires hard work.

Freedom requires literacy, math, responsibility, and the ability to succeed without dependence.

A society that stops rewarding excellence eventually stops producing it.

In 2027, I will introduce a constitutional amendment to make the West Virginia State Board of Education elected by the people and restore accountability to our education system.

And after what I saw today, I understand even more clearly why the Hope Scholarship is so important.

Parents deserve options.

Our kids deserve better.

West Virginia deserves better.