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Metro government: More answers from Louisville
Remember the Q&A from the metro government forum earlier this month? Some of those questions were directed to Louisville, Ky., Mayor Jerry Abramson. His office has since sent responses to those...
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Metro government: How Brooks McCabe envisions it
Sen. Brooks McCabe has been praised and pilloried on this blog, in the paper and elsewhere for pushing consideration of metro government. We asked McCabe to spell out how he envisions metro government...
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One good question that keeps coming up in discussion of metro government is exactly how would county residents save money on the functions of government, how much and in what categories? The short...
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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...
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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...
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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State Police settle with Roger Wolfe
The West Virginia State Police have agreed to pay Charleston attorney Roger A. Wolfe $200,001.01 to settle his lawsuit over an alleged beating that occurred in the South Charleston barracks while Wolfe...
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Charleston’s brain gain?
Richard Florida published an interesting piece, “Where the Brains Are Going,” over at The Atlantic this week, which noted that several aging Rustbelt cities have apparently started gaining adults with...
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M. Blane Michael, 1943-2011
Word came on Friday that Judge M. Blane Michael, one of two judges from West Virginia who sits on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit, had passed away. Judge Michael served on the 4th Circuit...
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