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Metro government: Interest in Harrison County
Harrison County Commissioner Ron Watson has been keeping an eye on Kanawha County’s metro government discussion. He grew up at Lost Creek in Harrison County, but he worked for more than 20 years for...
View ArticleMetro government: Watch the forum
You can watch the July 8 forum on metro government featuring Louisville Mayor Jerry Abramson. A video recording of the event is at the Kanawha County Commission’s Web site: Part 1 Includes an overview...
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State ducked duty on smoking ban, commissioner says
Earlier this week, Nitro City Council members proposed the city change jurisdiction to the Putnam County Health Department and away from the Kanawha County Health Department to avoid Kanawha’s smoking...
View ArticleMetro government: What about the user fee?
Could metro government mean the end of Charleston’s user fee? Very possibly. At a July reception, representatives of various governments in Kanawha County had a chance to ask Louisville, Ky., Mayor...
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Metro government: There’s no one size fits all
Bruce Katz is something of an expert on metro government. He is vice president and director of the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institute, where much study of the nation’s metropolitan...
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New Census data: One in six West Virginians living in poverty
More than 300,000 West Virginians lived in poverty in 2008, according to new data from the Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau yesterday. That translates into...
View ArticleFBI releases 2008 hate crime statistics
On Monday, the FBI published its summary of hate crimes in America in 2008. These are the FBI’s bullet points: An analysis of the 7,780 single-bias incidents revealed that 51.3 percent were motivated...
View ArticleSTOP Violence Against Women grants announced
On Friday, Gov. Joe Manchin announced the distribution of federal funds from the Office on Violence Against Women, a part of the U.S. Department of Justice. All told, 24 projects in West Virginia...
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An avalanche of cash in judicial campaigns, Pt. 2
In a previous post, we looked at the vast amounts of cash poured into judicial campaigns, particularly races for seats on state Supreme Courts, and how many believe that money is undermining the...
View ArticleFBI: Hate crimes down in West Virginia
Late last month, the FBI released hate crime statistics for 2009. Happily, hate crimes in West Virginia are way down from last year, from 43 total in 2008 to 24 in 2009. Broken down by type of offense,...
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