dbeard@dominionpost.com MORGANTOWN – Trey Kay, host of the West Virginia Public Broadcasting podcast Us & Them – told a group of nearly 100 people gathered in the Mountainlair Gluck Theater […]
Tag: homeless encampment
The people have a right to enjoy their parks
Public parks belong to the public, right? A billionaire can’t cordon off an acre of Golden Gate Park for his private party. But can a poor person — or anyone […]
Crowd asks Morgantown Council to prioritize city unhoused population
MORGANTOWN — Wearing stickers with slogans like “Housing Not Handcuffs,” “No Housing No Peace” and “Poverty Is Not Criminal,” an overflow crowd showed up at Tuesday’s Morgantown City Council meeting […]
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, […]
Morgantown grappling with encampment question
MORGANTOWN — If you were in Morgantown during the summer and/or fall of 2020, chances are you’ve heard of Diamond Village. That was the name given to an encampment of […]
City of Wheeling to open new homeless encampment site today
BY CARRIE HODOUSEK Homeless individuals living along 18th Street, across from the Catholic Charities Neighborhood Center in Wheeling, have until this afternoon to move to a new exempted site. The […]
Speakers urge city to do more for its unhoused population, suggest managed camps
MORGANTOWN — Vickie Ashcraft, a housing advocate for the Fairmont Morgantown Housing Authority, was on Morgantown City Council’s Tuesday agenda to receive a Fair Housing Month Proclamation. But by the […]
Tearing of our social fabric
PITTSBURGH — When the Hampton Battery was dedicated here in 1871 to a young Civil War soldier who lost his life protecting the Union at Chancellorsville, Va., the granite monument […]
Nov. 28 letters to the editor
Cost is too high to ignore climate change The science relating to the existence and cause of climate change has been settled for years — combustion of fossil fuels by […]
