Month: September 2017

W.Va. Legislative Auditor releases September interim meeting schedule

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia Legislative Auditor Aaron Allred has released the schedule for the Legislature’s September interim meetings: Use this link to see the schedule, which is also attached below: General Schedule link: http://www.legis.state.wv.us/committees/interims/intcomsched.cfm In PDF form: Interim Committee Schedule    

Editorial: Waste of money if technology is not used

From The Inter-Mountain of Elkins: State government seems endlessly inventive in finding ways to waste huge sums of money on pie-in-the-sky technological ventures. Unfortunately, we West Virginians keep letting the folks in Charleston get away with it. About three years ago, state officials were talked into spending $150 million on[Read More…]

Editorial: Innovation at BMC is inspiring

From The Journal of Martinsburg: The Eastern Panhandle is becoming a destination for leading-edge technology in the field of medicine thanks to advances at WVU Medicine’s Berkeley Medical Center. Recently, BMC became the first medical center in the West Virginia and the tri-state area to add the Mazor X, a[Read More…]

East River Mountain eyed for $2 billion hydroelectric pump station project

By CHARLIE BOOTHE Bluefield Daily Telegraph BLUEFIELD, Va. — Tazewell County officials are applauding the news that a site on East River Mountain in Tazewell County is one of two in the region being considered for a $2 billion pumped hydroelectric storage facility. Dominion Energy announced Thursday morning that the[Read More…]

Editorial: Country can’t afford moral, ethical faults of big pharma

From The Register-Herald of Beckley: We have known for some time that the pharmaceutical industry in the United States, as demonstrated in one opioid drug distribution story after another – to say nothing of noxious pricing and marketing schemes – is morally and ethically bankrupt. Now, with the release of[Read More…]

Editorial: No politics past this point

From The Dominion Post of Morgantown: School boards of the past were once as much about political patronage as championing education in West Virginia. But, by and large, that mentality in most school districts changed long ago, if it is not altogether gone now. Though we would like to believe[Read More…]

WV State Board of Education member Vitale arrested for DUI, leaving scene

The Dominion Post Staff Report   MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Local leader and West Virginia Board of Education member Frank Vitale was arrested for DUI on Sept. 8, according to court records. The Monongalia County Sheriff’s Department charged Francis S. Vitale, 43, of Morgantown, with DUI and leaving the scene of[Read More…]

Editorial: Wheeling sewer system work needed

From The Wheeling Intelligencer: Those “unexpected” expenses that plague most of us — the car needs a new transmission, the house needs a new roof, etc — really should not be surprises. If you own something, it needs to be repaired occasionally.    So it is with the infrastructure that[Read More…]

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