WVU Officials want to depose Coach Rod’s Wife

CLARKSBURG - West Virginia University attorneys have asked U.S. District Judge John Bailey for permission to place former football coach Rich Rodriguez and his wife Rita Rodriguez under oath and ask them where he lived when the university sued him.
The university disputes Rodriguez’s claim that he established citizenship in Michigan before the university sued him [...]

Jay Wolfe unopposed for Republican nomination for US Senate

Jay Wolfe is now the only Republican running for the US Senate against Jay Rockefeller. Phil Cline from Huntington withdrew his name according to this Herald Dispatch story.
Republican Jay Wolfe of Harrison County filed for the seat after Cline submitted his candidacy form on Saturday.
“My intention all along was to be sure that Senator [...]

Coach Rod puts up $1.5 letter of credit

At the encouragement of one of our contributors who would like to have the conversation changed to a non-controversial subject, here is a story about Coach Rod putting up a letter of credit in Clarksburg as reported in CSTV.com.
“Former West Virginia football coach Rich Rodriguez filed a $1.5 million letter of credit Tuesday, claiming that’s [...]

Why Talk Show Host, Reuben Perdue, ain’t the Man!

Several people have expressed the hope for some time that Mr. Reuben Perdue would step up and successfully fill the void on WAJR-FM by using that air time to provide the community a quality mix of open discussion and a fair exchange of ideas on a wide-range of topics. He has failed. Worse [...]

County EMS Director offers Bridgeport Fire Service Fee Relief

Letter from Richard B. Rock, Harrison County EMS Executive Director, to Mayor Jim Christie of Bridgeport, Mr Rock writes,
“It seems unnecessary for the City of Bridgeport to impose a fee upon its residents to offset the anticipated future expense of operating an emergency services operation when the Harrison County Emergency Squad is currently equipped, [...]

WANTED: CANDIDATES FOR SCHOOL BOARD

This is a first draft. Add your proposed revisions and amendments below.
“Willingness to build schools where children live; de-consolidate over-crowded schools like Nutter Fort and maybe Big Elm; slim down the central office staff; more teachers, less overhead; need a candidate who can scrutinize a $100M budget and reduce waste and redundancy; creating an [...]

New School Bond Proposal

Meeting at 6 PM, Monday, January 7 at RCB High School …. let the accusations begin. If you criticize the creatively named “Greatest Needs” bond proposal you shall be labeled anti-children and anti-education. If you apply a sense of analysis to the individual line items that are included you will be told that [...]