The Morgantown Area Partnership recently hired two new staff members: Jacob Coots and Matt Porter. Coots is the new Membership and Public Affairs manager for the Partnership. After receiving his […]
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Rambling Van Vintage makes sustainability stylish
Sustainable fashion, a smart business plan and a Preston County based business — these are some of my favorite things, so when I saw the Rambling Van Vintage mobile boutique […]
Big Tech’s reckoning won’t stop with Uber
by Parmy Olson Life for big tech companies looks increasingly different to how it did five years ago. Back then, Uber Technologies Inc. used a secret “kill switch” to thwart […]
Time to break Big Tech’s stranglehold
Yesterday, we covered the Open App Markets Act — a bill in Congress that targets the anticompetitive practices in app stores. Today, we’ll cover its companion bill, the American Innovation […]
Guest essay: Interfaith group objects to Big Daddy gun store
by Rev. Zachary Morton The Greater Morgantown Interfaith Association wants to call the community’s attention to a local issue that is of special concern to vulnerable public spaces. A number […]
What would Walt think?
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a bill passed by the Republican-majority legislature that revokes a special tax exemption and other privileges for Walt Disney World in Orlando. This was […]
Biden says to ‘buy American’ to build new infrastructure
On Monday, President Joe Biden announced that beginning May 14, all infrastructure projects using federal funds (specifically, Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act dollars) will have to abide by the Build […]
Elon Musk is not what Twitter needs
by Timothy L. O’Brien Elon Musk wants to buy Twitter Inc. for $43 billion — but he has only about $3 billion in cash on hand. Most of the fortune […]
Employment conundrum: greater marijuana use
America is slowly, but inevitably, moving toward legalization of marijuana. Recreational use of cannabis is legal in 18 states and Washington, D.C. Thirty-seven states, including West Virginia, allow marijuana use […]
SEC weighs in on companies and climate change risk
The Securities and Exchange Commission is weighing whether to require public companies to disclose climate change vulnerabilities that might affect their future stock performance. Debate is raging about whether companies […]
