VenusElaine
02-12-2008, 10:43 PM
Since this sub-forum is "local news and gossip", I thought I would fill everyone in on the latest happenings in beautiful downtown Morgantown, WV.
We are the home of WVU, and some of you may have heard that we lost our head football coach at the end of 2007. Rich Rodriguez and his (looks like a bimbo to me) wife Rita suddenly hightailed it to Michigan and now there is a civil suit to determine if he must honor his contract and pay the $4 million buy out. Excuse me, we also have a law school, I think they know how to write a contract.
Our city and county, suddenly realizing that growth and traffic has exceeded our infrastructure, came up with a "service fee" (read: taxation without representation) that would be imposed on every person working in the county, but could only be voted on by persons registered in the county. The proposed road improvements to be financed centered on Morgantown and WVU, totally ignoring the rural areas of the county. They were also focused on areas developed by "the good old boy network". The "service fee" was to be imposed on EVERY working person (full-time, part-time, minimum wage, self-employed, minor age paper carrier?) deducted by the employer. IT WAS RESOUNDLY DEFEATED! I love my home, but I have lived in suburban DC, and they cannot have the metro privileges without the metro concerns. Sitting in traffic for fifteen to thirty minutes is NOTHING compared to DC. I knew people who had a one to three hour commute one way. Grow up!
We had about three inches of snow this morning. So much for global warming. Sunday it was 16 degrees.
We are also fighting the TRAIL project of Allegheny Power. Basically, they want to run a huge power line through our state (from southern Pennsylvania to northern Virginia) to provide power to the DC, Northern Virginia area. Allegheny wants to use the right of eminent domain to run this line, destroying property values, farms and homesteads of many generations to provide power to another state, because they do not want a plant in their area ( can you say NIMBY?) They need power, but they do not want a power plant. We have plenty of power, power plants, and coal to burn. They could follow Interstate 68, but it runs through Maryland, and they don't want it, though they they would benefit. Allegheny tells us we need it to avoid blackouts, but we don't have them. DC, northern Virginia and Maryland do. Who needs the power? Why should we suffer for it?
We are a town trying to be a city and many of our residents want the best of both, but are not willing to compromise. After having lived in both, I choose here.
VenusElaine
We are the home of WVU, and some of you may have heard that we lost our head football coach at the end of 2007. Rich Rodriguez and his (looks like a bimbo to me) wife Rita suddenly hightailed it to Michigan and now there is a civil suit to determine if he must honor his contract and pay the $4 million buy out. Excuse me, we also have a law school, I think they know how to write a contract.
Our city and county, suddenly realizing that growth and traffic has exceeded our infrastructure, came up with a "service fee" (read: taxation without representation) that would be imposed on every person working in the county, but could only be voted on by persons registered in the county. The proposed road improvements to be financed centered on Morgantown and WVU, totally ignoring the rural areas of the county. They were also focused on areas developed by "the good old boy network". The "service fee" was to be imposed on EVERY working person (full-time, part-time, minimum wage, self-employed, minor age paper carrier?) deducted by the employer. IT WAS RESOUNDLY DEFEATED! I love my home, but I have lived in suburban DC, and they cannot have the metro privileges without the metro concerns. Sitting in traffic for fifteen to thirty minutes is NOTHING compared to DC. I knew people who had a one to three hour commute one way. Grow up!
We had about three inches of snow this morning. So much for global warming. Sunday it was 16 degrees.
We are also fighting the TRAIL project of Allegheny Power. Basically, they want to run a huge power line through our state (from southern Pennsylvania to northern Virginia) to provide power to the DC, Northern Virginia area. Allegheny wants to use the right of eminent domain to run this line, destroying property values, farms and homesteads of many generations to provide power to another state, because they do not want a plant in their area ( can you say NIMBY?) They need power, but they do not want a power plant. We have plenty of power, power plants, and coal to burn. They could follow Interstate 68, but it runs through Maryland, and they don't want it, though they they would benefit. Allegheny tells us we need it to avoid blackouts, but we don't have them. DC, northern Virginia and Maryland do. Who needs the power? Why should we suffer for it?
We are a town trying to be a city and many of our residents want the best of both, but are not willing to compromise. After having lived in both, I choose here.
VenusElaine