by Quenton King It’s been quite a year, and I don’t mean just 2024. Last month, climate scientists released data showing May was the hottest month on record. More than that, it marked one year of each month being hotter than the last, the first time that has ever happened. The ...
by Charlotte R. Lane All sorts of things can trigger a rate increase request from a utility and approval of increased rates by the Public Service Commission of West Virginia. The primary factors driving utility rate filings are the cost of operations and the cost to provide utility ...
Recently, Mon Power and Hope Gas both filed with the Public Service Commission for rate increases — requests that were met with public indignation. Figuring out how utilities get paid is complicated, but we’ve done our best to figure it out for you. In the simplest possible ...
WVU should’ve known enrollment would drop I am surprised that, as The Dominion Post reported on Wednesday, June 7, “Faculty question how the university got into a financial bind.” For at least 10 years, there have been reports predicting that online, remote, higher ...
Debt ceiling: Recall the Solomonic judgment Those of us who read the Old Testament may recall the story of Solomon solving the dispute between two women each claiming the same child. The false mother proved herself to Solomon by being willing to have the child cut in ...