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From coal mine to solar farm

Tomorrow is Earth Day: a celebration of our planet and a call-to-action to help take care of it. This often involves community-wide clean-up efforts and education outreach. The former tends to include things like litter pick-ups or recycling events. The latter usually includes reiterating the “3 Rs of Waste Management” — reduce, reuse and recycle. It’s a pithy reminder to reduce the amount of waste we create (not buying more food than we can eat or using more electricity than necessary), to reuse whatever we can (repurposing containers or textiles for new projects) and to ...

No one hates their jobs more than West Virginia workers

Data released in March suggests that West Virginians hate their jobs more than anyone else in the nation. We’re not surprised. First, about the data: The career coaching organization Cultivated Career collected 260,000 geotagged posts from X (Twitter) that mentioned certain key words, e.g. “I hate my job” or “need a new job.” The geotag contains information about where the post was made — and of the tweets analyzed, more of them came from West Virginia than any other state. The largest industries (by employment) in the state are education and health services; trade, ...

Endorsements for Preston County Board of Education

The Dominion Post Editorial Board met with candidates for Preston County’s Board of Education Tuesday. We spoke with Debra Felton, Michael Hovatter, Robert “Mac” McCrum and Shelley Miller. Beth Noss was not able to join us. There are three seats open: one each in District 1, District 2 and District 3. However, no one is running for District 1. McCrum, Miller and Noss are running for the seat in District 2. Felton and Hovatter are competing for the District 3 seat. It is apparent that all the candidates we interviewed are passionate about education and Preston County’s ...

As long as the road work gets done …

State Sen. Mike Oliverio’s office announced the Division of Highways would be getting help from private contractors to help take care of ditching so DOH workers could focus on core maintenance — and a hallelujah chorus rang through the hills of north-central West Virginia. We are not unsympathetic to the DOH, especially here in District 4. We know it has struggled to hire enough staff to take care of the never-ending work. And we understand how demoralizing it must be to constantly be the source of the community’s ire. We appreciate every filled pothole, repaved road, trimmed ...

Connect downtown to riverfront? Make it safer to walk

We mentioned yesterday that the results of the Morgantown Riverfront Revitalization Task Force’s survey indicated locals had two main concerns about the riverfront. One was the number of unhoused people who tend to congregate around the rail-trail where it parallels the Monongahela River. The other concern cited was lack of connectivity between downtown and the riverfront. This has also been a known issue. As beautiful as the region’s rolling hills may be, they make getting places more difficult. It might technically be half a mile from the top of High Street to Hazel Ruby ...

Managed camps may solve more than one problem

Perhaps it’s a coincidence or perhaps it’s a synchronicity, but shortly after advocates spoke to Morgantown City Council about the possibility of “managed camps” for unsheltered people on city property, the Morgantown Riverfront Revitalization Task Force reported to council that survey results showed one of the primary “negatives” of the riverfront area was the sheer number of unhoused people around. Perhaps the former could be a solution to the latter. A managed camp is an approved encampment on city property for people who are unsheltered. (Someone can be ...