Details of the settlement agreement between a number of Morgantown Police Department officers and the City of Morgantown were released this week, ending a two-year battle regarding […]
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City, county put up emergency funding for Bartlett House payroll
MORGANTOWN — The Monongalia County Commission and the city of Morgantown are each putting up $17,500 to provide payroll for 16 Bartlett House employees through the end […]
Meanwhile, in Morgantown …
City takes panhandling law off the books Last week, the Morgantown City Council voted to repeal a 2005 panhandling law that is the basis for a federal […]
Someone has to clean up the mess at Bartlett
It’s disheartening to hear that Bartlett House faces a much more dire situation than we thought. It was bad enough when word was just that the emergency […]
Managed camps may solve more than one problem
Perhaps it’s a coincidence or perhaps it’s a synchronicity, but shortly after advocates spoke to Morgantown City Council about the possibility of “managed camps” for unsheltered people […]
Morgantown Fire Local 313: Firefighter checks wrong under new pay system
MORGANTOWN — Chuck Campbell, president of the Morgantown City Firefighters Union Local 313, said pay for city firefighters has been messed up since the city moved to […]
Enforcing contracts can cut both ways
Here’s the thing about contract enforcement: It can be a double-edged sword. Republic Services will be enforcing the clause in the contract it negotiated with the City […]
It’s going to happen: Health Right on the verge of finalizing Scott Avenue move
MORGANTOWN — It hasn’t been easy. To use a football analogy, Milan Puskar Health Right’s two-year push to move out of downtown Morgantown has been like a […]
City’s fire levy request faux pas
There are few things we are taught in “career readiness” courses in high school and college that, while technically about submitting resumés, applies equally well to much […]
Since complaints don’t work on Republic, maybe levying fines will
Recycling pickup was spotty throughout the Suncrest neighborhood on Friday. Some bins were emptied; others were not, seemingly without rhyme or reason. That’s likely because there was […]