The city’s statement on employee pay The City of Morgantown has been the center of attention lately over its personnel policies. While we generally don’t comment on such matters in the public, we believe these facts will contribute to the discussion. The city provides some of the ...
MORGANTOWN – A subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway – the No. 7 Fortune 500 company – will buy more than 2,000 acres in Ravenswood to build the first-of-its-kind renewable energy microgrid-powered industrial site. Gov. Jim Justice made the announcement Tuesday morning, joined by members ...
MORGANTOWN – The state Legislature passed a green-energy economic development bill and two bills to pave some secondary roads across the state during a one-day special session Monday. The roads bills channel $150 million of Fiscal Year 2022 surplus to the Road Fund, Gov. Jim Justice said ...
MORGANTOWN – The day after Gov. Jim Justice announced a $141.8 million August budget surplus and recapped a year of economic accomplishments, the leaders of his new Economic Development Department spoke to state chamber members about what the state has been doing to achieve ...
by Michael D. Farren and James M. Hohman Thirty years ago this summer, two former governors — Michigan’s John Engler and Illinois’ Jim Edgar — arrived at the National Governors Association meeting with a radical idea: that states band together and stop handing taxpayer-funded ...
Sometimes, one must take a step back and simply appreciate what’s going on around them. And today, we’re looking around at Morgantown, Westover, Granville, Star City and the rest of the Greater Morgantown Area and appreciating how far it’s all come. The growth the area has seen ...