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Not surprising that a Charleston paper would forget Huntington. FYI Huntington's GDP grew .7% and was ranked 200 for growth and 180 overall. Still the 2nd highest in WV for total GDP.
Morgantown is stalling...on the verge of over building in the mega housing sector.
Builders and banks are trying to keep hot air in the expansion balloon...but hundreds of apartments and condos lie vacant...this year will tell the tale of reality.
Growth has been steady, but the coming year will show an abrupt halt to this housing expansion.
Morgantown is stalling...on the verge of over building in the mega housing sector.
Builders and banks are trying to keep hot air in the expansion balloon...but hundreds of apartments and condos lie vacant...this year will tell the tale of reality.
Growth has been steady, but the coming year will show an abrupt halt to this housing expansion.
I don't know, Kennedy. Maybe this year will bring about a stalling in housing construction but I don't see that happening yet. They just broke ground on a massive project about 2 miles out Van Voorhis between there and West Run. I think the houses get taken by people associated with new research positions. And, you said people are not staying after graduation but that is changing. Morgantown still has three full pages of help wanted ads on Sundays... almost as many as the New York Times. I think you are off base there. I think a slowing is natural given the overall economy, but I don't think the expansion stops.
I hope the expansion continues...new practice facility for the WVU basketball team and Lady Mountaineers is fully funded...25 million...will sit behind he Colliseum and over look the river.
Hope they dedicate a portion to that great retired Cheerleading Coach from Marion County...
was so good WVU brought her out of retirement for 5 years...don't think I can name her in this post..
Mrs. B M...
Thanks Bobbi...remembering what Mr. Pas***ng said..."Bobbi IS WVU...her persona, her integrity...she is the ideal we all stand for..." conversation at Muriales one evening...
Getting back to the topic at hand...
Medical Research is here in a big way..and more to come...3 more facilities..
Perhaps you are right about future housing needs...but I speak with a lot of guys who are not working in construction and related skills and they are almost giving up....(and the cheap working, invisible illegal Mexicans ARE causing a problem).
A contractor on Sunday said , "They have opened the floodgates for them...no accountablilty...nobody to stop them."
I hope the expansion continues...new practice facility for the WVU basketball team and Lady Mountaineers is fully funded...25 million...will sit behind he Colliseum and over look the river.
Hope they dedicate a portion to that great retired Cheerleading Coach from Marion County...
was so good WVU brought her out of retirement for 5 years...don't think I can name her in this post..
Mrs. B M...
Thanks Bobbi...remembering what Mr. Pas***ng said..."Bobbi IS WVU...her persona, her integrity...she is the ideal we all stand for..." conversation at Muriales one evening...
Getting back to the topic at hand...
Medical Research is here in a big way..and more to come...3 more facilities..
Perhaps you are right about future housing needs...but I speak with a lot of guys who are not working in construction and related skills and they are almost giving up....(and the cheap working, invisible illegal Mexicans ARE causing a problem).
A contractor on Sunday said , "They have opened the floodgates for them...no accountablilty...nobody to stop them."
Somebody needs to get to the Sheriff and city officials about the illegal alien problem before it gets out of hand. I have lived in the northern NYC suburbs for many years and have seen the destructive results of that. I realize that with the current regime in Washington there is little support for making things better (or the past regime for that matter... the elitists always want to shove stupidity in the form of "social engineering" down our throats), but much can be done with law enforcement support to curtail the problem.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio is doing a great job in Arizona, and the Sheriff of Ohio County has essentially run the illegals out of there with enforcement activity. They need to get on board in Monongalia.
Are we certain that illegal workers pose that much of a threat in the trades? I know of several contractors that used 'legal' labor in the EP. I'm sure some portion are undocumented, but I'm also sure a lot of them are okay.
And most of the workers I met that used to excavate landscape rock in Hampshire County worked their tails off. Very good folks.
Sometimes anecdotal 'evidence' is used to convince us the problem is larger than it seems. Not saying that this is the case, but frequently it becomes the panacea for what ills you.
Now in the poultry industry- that's a well documented and discovered case. But that's endemic to that sector of the economy nationally.
Are we certain that illegal workers pose that much of a threat in the trades? I know of several contractors that used 'legal' labor in the EP. I'm sure some portion are undocumented, but I'm also sure a lot of them are okay.
And most of the workers I met that used to excavate landscape rock in Hampshire County worked their tails off. Very good folks.
Sometimes anecdotal 'evidence' is used to convince us the problem is larger than it seems. Not saying that this is the case, but frequently it becomes the panacea for what ills you.
Now in the poultry industry- that's a well documented and discovered case. But that's endemic to that sector of the economy nationally.
Maybe you haven't had the chance to see first hand what happens when they get a foothold. In the northern NYC area, they work for $80 per day. They afford the costs in the high cost area by living 20 to 30 people to an appartment sleeping in shifts, or they "comute" in a van from a low rent district with one legal immigrant transporting the illegal aliens for a cut of their daily pay. They pay NO taxes on their wages, and send most of the money they make out of the country to relatives in Mexico or Guatamala.
If the individual is a female, they are potentially the most destructive. The first thing they generally try to do when they get across the border is get pregnant so they can have the "anchor baby", and thus tap into the already overburdened social service system for welfare and food stamps, as well as any other taxpayer funded program they can weasel into. You see, we have perhaps the only civilized country in the world that has a stupid law on the books that makes anyone born on American soil a citizen even if that child has no American citizen parent. The kid is then automatically "entitled" to every benefit.
Illegal aliens commit up to 40% of all crime in many areas of the country and they fill the criminal justice system. They add to everyone's tax burden by getting free medical care in emergency rooms and have in many cases literally taken over large portions of towns making them unsafe for other resident and the residents' children. Go to Brewster, NY next time you are in the area and see what can happen to a once proud village. At night, drunken Mexicans congregate on the streets and locals stay indoors.
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