A Daily Mail editorial from the Charleston Gazette-Mail
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The great playwright George Bernard Shaw once said, “You see things; and you say ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?’”
When Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin looks at a 12,000-acre former mine site in Boone County, he asks “Why not?”
Tomblin announced plans to revitalize the Hobet mine site, which straddles Boone and Lincoln counties, in his January State of the State Address. His vision is grand — an industrial park, commercial and residential spaces and infrastructure to make it all happen.
The Gazette-Mail’s Andrew Brown reported Sunday that a plan to build a road from Corridor G to the site has been put out to bid. Completing the road is step one in the process. The governor’s office hopes to have the contract awarded by October and work would begin in March 2017.
That’s after Tomblin leaves office, but spokesman Chris Stadelman said it was never the governor’s intention to have the project completed before the end of his term…
