MORGANTOWN -- Much like a cardiologist, the Morgantown Utility Board is concerned with the intake of fat, oil and grease – and for similar reasons. They tend to gum up the works. As part of the utility board’s NPDES, or National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System, permitting ...
MORGANTOWN -- In the best of times, annual budgets are uncertain. They’re well-educated guesses – estimates, if you prefer the term. You look at what you expect to get, weigh that against what you expect to spend – and hope nothing happens along the way that negatively skews ...
MORGANTOWN -- As the old saying goes, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. As a public health leader in a state that perpetually finds itself at the bottom of national health rankings, Monongalia County Health Officer Dr. Brian Huggins said it’s long past time for West ...
MORGANTOWN -- Monongalia County Health Department Chief Financial Officer Devan Smith was prepared to come into Thursday morning’s board of health meeting and report MCHD was so-far unscathed by the upheaval in federal funding initiated by the Trump administration. Then, on Tuesday, ...
MORGANTOWN -- Over the course of about 12 days in January, the Monongalia County Health Department followed along as news out of Charleston, then Washington, cast uncertainty on two of its primary funding sources - federal grants and direct state aid. Tackling the more immediate concern ...
MORGANTOWN -- According to Monongalia County Health Officer Dr. Brian Huggins, West Virginia is one of very few states - regardless of political leanings - that hasn’t seen a significant reduction in kindergarten vaccination rates over the last four years. He fears that’s about to ...