Why meet with DOH if nothing gets done? Why do the Monongalia County Commission meetings with the Division of Highways end in an impasse? Why even have meetings with no solutions? Stagnant minds are the greatest obstacles to progress. Just study the accomplishments of the “Greatest ...
The season is changing, the weather is cooling, the days are shorter and the leaves are putting on their autumn colors. Yet one thing remains the same: The state-maintained roads are still in terrible condition. Medians are overgrown, ditches haven’t been cleared, potholes are popping up ...
Regarding WVU cuts to library funding I had to laugh when I read The Dominion Post story “Transformation moves on to Academic Units” (9-21-23) about cuts to library funding as part of the “Academic Transformation” project. First, I laughed when Mark Gavin was quoted as saying ...
Concerned for damage to core curriculum Having been a WVU professor emeritus for 25 years, I have had abundant contact with former students. Many of them found work and career opportunities outside their undergraduate major. And most of those with whom I am in touch clearly benefited ...
If your road is pitted with potholes or rippled like W.Va. 7’s Hogback Turn, has overgrown foliage spilling into the roadway or grass taller than you along the ditches or medians, then there’s a good chance you live along a state-maintained road. That’s not a guarantee, but it is a ...
There is rarely a good time to rip up roads or do work on water lines, but there are certainly “less bad” times to do so — and also “really bad” times to do so. For example, doing water line work in Sunnyside that necessitated a boil water advisory and closed down one lane of Campus ...