A camping ban, panhandling laws, the collapse of Bartlett House. Public outcry, lawsuits, conflict. No single topic dominated Morgantown’s public discourse, and therefore headlines, in 2024 like the swirl of topics surrounding a relatively small, but vulnerable, group of ...
MORGANTOWN -- Morgantown City Council on Tuesday initiated the process of addressing the more than $110 million in liabilities currently represented by its police and fire pension plans. The body voted unanimously to close both plans to new entrants and move the city over to the ...
MORGANTOWN -- During his time with the city, Damien Davis has worked under a couple different titles. Starting in 2008, he was “city engineer.” In 2021, he became “director of engineering and public works.” Now it appears he’ll add “acting city manager” to that ...
MORGANTOWN -- While nearly every city in West Virginia has already taken the police and fire pension funding lifelines first offered by the West Virginia Legislature in 2010 (Optional I) and then again in 2023 (Optional II), Morgantown has not. Today, the city finds itself with more than ...
MORGANTOWN -- When the National League of Cities unveiled its inaugural list of Under 40 Impact Award winners during its Nov. 13 Centennial City Summit in Tampa, Fla., Morgantown Mayor Joe Abu-Ghannam’s name was at the top of the list. Some say the list was alphabetical. “But ...
MORGANTOWN -- Difficult, counterintuitive, unsightly. Those were some of the words used by members of the Monongalia County Commission to describe Milan Puskar Health Right’s needle exchange program, known as LIGHT, or Living in Good Health Together. The commission’s final word on ...