MORGANTOWN – The Dominion Post asked Gov. Jim Justice Wednesday if he'd received a response to his recent letter to President Joe Biden about saving the Viatris pharmaceutical plant in Morgantown. In reply, Justice vented his frustration not once, but twice. But he also said that Rep. ...
MORGANTOWN – The coveted CISA letter acknowledging the Morgantown Viatris plant's critical infrastructure designation is in hand – several hands – but no one really knows what that means. “I am thrilled that we got the letter,” said Delegate Barbara Evans Fleischauer, ...
The employee parking lot at the Mylan-Viatris facility was conspicuously empty Monday afternoon as traffic bustled by on nearby Chestnut Ridge Road. This past Saturday was the all but final drawdown at the plant, which was co-founded in 1961 by Milan “Mike” Puskar, the late Morgantown ...
Today, we celebrate people who stepped up when the community needed them. Let’s have a round of applause for Delegate Barbara Evans Fleischauer and Dr. Kevin Blankenship. For months, Mylan workers and Morgantown community members begged representatives for help stopping the plant ...
by Laura Flanders and Terry McGovern A pandemic is raging; the world needs vaccines, and a state-of-the-art factory capable of making those vaccines is closing its doors in West Virginia today. What is wrong with this picture? Six months into the Biden administration, the COVID-19 ...
The ones who knew him still had to look twice. When they realized for sure who it was, they started smiling. At first, they whispered: “It’s him.” Then everyone started saying hello. For some, it was a formal, “Mr. Puskar, how have you been?” For still more others, ...