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The 'new' population article in the Dominion Post today looked to be about the same article as what was published last summer (regarding Motown being 4th largest city in the state). I wonder why they even bothered to print it -- not like anything changed, heck, it could be the same exact article.
In reality, most of the year (counting resident students) Morgantown is easily the largest city in the State. Even in the summers with 9,000 resident students it is maybe 10,000 less than the largest. Most of the 25,000 Fall and Spring term resident students aren't counted in the Census. On football Saturdays it practically doubles the size of the next largest city. For years we heard about nothing but population decline in the State. Now, we finally have some growing areas. Maybe their growth will spread to other parts of the State as well?
Morgantowns workforce lives in several areas...Fayette County (being one of them) is excluded completely...
Because of high rental costs and higher end housing (500k and above) for us, people are pushed as far out to Bruceton (Prison Workers)...as far south as Bridgeport, (when a couple splits the Demo's and work in different locales, such as the Clarksburg area and Morgantown).
A great deal of people are locating all along the Rt 7 feeder (from Wana to Kingwood, the Rt 119 feeder(From Uniontown to Grafton), the Old Route 73 feeder (to Fairmont).
Morgantown's present data is very faulty, because it's area is restricted only to the City Limits...
If it ever explodes with any serious annexation (and it really needs to do this to access money for an entire overhead highway system...) ,it would certainly be a serious rival to Charleston.
A spark of hope is in the wind...
Mayor Ron Justice is running an early campaign for Governor...that is Morgantown's only real hope of bypassing the crooks in Charleston. With him in the Big Seat, we will get the grants and moneys needed to plan for a 100 year future.
Here is a spreadsheet of population changes from 2000-2008:
http://www.census.gov/popest/counties/tables/CO-EST2008-02-54.xls (broken link)
The State of WV has only gained 6,123 residents since the 2000 census. Only 20 counties have gained population and only 6 counties have gained over 1,000 people.
The largest gains are as follows:
Berkeley County +26,139
Jefferson County +9,425
Monogalia County +6,354
Putnam County +3,902
Hampshire County +2,372
Morgan County +1,382
Exactly what I'm talking about with Stale Data, 10 years old.. The growth of this region has been in the past 10 years and has been a result of the 'Bush Energy Policy that is now being dismantled.
Greene County, Pa is under a growth moriatorium because of fresh water availability, but the prison there has been a economic boomette for them...Fayette County has a lot of Morgantown workers.
Washington County would seem to be involved as central to Pittsburgh and Morgantown.
The future growth for this region is Fayette because of present 'Friendly Business Laws and Practices and lower priced land sales and rentals...Uniontown has a new look and all on the Pittsburgh side of the city. The new highway will be the link that welds us to Pittsburgh...and with the money coming from those banks to our area, the social network will begin to forge...
What is the old data for Fayette, Greene and Washington Countys?....
Washington not so important because the population bleed of Pittsburgh is coming down to them...
Morgantowns workforce lives in several areas...Fayette County (being one of them) is excluded completely...
Because of high rental costs and higher end housing (500k and above) for us, people are pushed as far out to Bruceton (Prison Workers)...as far south as Bridgeport, (when a couple splits the Demo's and work in different locales, such as the Clarksburg area and Morgantown).
A great deal of people are locating all along the Rt 7 feeder (from Wana to Kingwood, the Rt 119 feeder(From Uniontown to Grafton), the Old Route 73 feeder (to Fairmont).
Morgantown's present data is very faulty, because it's area is restricted only to the City Limits...
If it ever explodes with any serious annexation (and it really needs to do this to access money for an entire overhead highway system...) ,it would certainly be a serious rival to Charleston.
A spark of hope is in the wind...
Mayor Ron Justice is running an early campaign for Governor...that is Morgantown's only real hope of bypassing the crooks in Charleston. With him in the Big Seat, we will get the grants and moneys needed to plan for a 100 year future.
Well worth the effort...
I agree 100%. West Virginia politics are hard to describe in just a few short sentences, but aside from the Northcentral and Eastern Panhandle regions, stupidity reins supreme in the political circuit, and those who aren't on the short end of the stick that way are generally corrupt to the core. Justice would be a terrific Governor. For one thing he is efficient, hard working, and honest (that in itself would be a huge change for the State). He'd clean up the place, get people working together for a change instead of the politics as usual regional bickering, and bring the State into the 21st. Century just as he did with Morgantown. He is just what WV needs, but can you imagine the resistence from the status quo politicos who are currently screwing up the place? At least 5 different fifedoms would have to fall.
Exactly what I'm talking about with Stale Data, 10 years old.. The growth of this region has been in the past 10 years and has been a result of the 'Bush Energy Policy that is now being dismantled.
Greene County, Pa is under a growth moriatorium because of fresh water availability, but the prison there has been a economic boomette for them...Fayette County has a lot of Morgantown workers.
Washington County would seem to be involved as central to Pittsburgh and Morgantown.
The future growth for this region is Fayette because of present 'Friendly Business Laws and Practices and lower priced land sales and rentals...Uniontown has a new look and all on the Pittsburgh side of the city. The new highway will be the link that welds us to Pittsburgh...and with the money coming from those banks to our area, the social network will begin to forge...
What is the old data for Fayette, Greene and Washington Countys?....
Washington not so important because the population bleed of Pittsburgh is coming down to them...
I'm not so sure about the dismantling. The idiots politicos would probably like to do that, but the so called science behind the global warming scam is faulty or fabricated. Thousands of scientists worldwide say CO2 has not caused global warming, and in fact warming has taken place well before any significant CO2 releases. But once something like this gains momentum with politicos, it is hard to stop because the ones promoting the ripoff now have a vested interest in perpetuating it and don't want to lose face. But the current Administrations plans to foist thousands of dollars in costs on the average family per year is not sitting too well. Even the naive don't believe those costs wouldn't be pushed onto consumers.
But it might well be true that Longview wouldn't have been built if it had waited until now. Fortunately it is already basically on line, and now Morgantown can benefit from the emphasis on clean energy research.
What will accelerate the process is the ending of certain Tax Advantages that will expire. That will restore taxation and prevent/ limit any future investment.
These 5 new coal fired electric generators will not distribute any power here...it will be sent out of state to the eastern seaboard.
The only difference between these plants and the plants on line now, are their capability to freeze the steam coming out of the vent stacks.
This is un-necessary.
Our present day power generators can remove all of the pollution...the fact is, the scrubbers are not used 24 hours per day. Federal Law gives them a loophole, and there are hours of operation when static scrubbers are not used.
The 20 year investment window is in Natural Gas...the gas lines are being installed to the coal fired power plants as we speak.
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