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Halloween Haunts: Trick or Treat!
In these Halloween Haunts, we share some frightening government waste of taxpayer money that is truly scarier than any horror film! Superintendent’s Five-Finger Discount Yields Felony Charges A former superintendent and curriculum director for Logan County Public Schools, was charged with t… Read More
Halloween Haunts: Phantom Leases
In these Halloween Haunts, we share some frightening government waste of taxpayer money that is truly scarier than any horror film! Health and Human Resources Wastes $1 Million on Phantom Leases The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) wasted nearly $1 million… Read More
Politicians and Potato Chips: Political vs. Traditional Markets
“Remember in November” We’ve been hearing that line for a while, and no doubt, we’ll continue to – especially now that the special session on “education betterment” is complete, and that resolution included the West Virginia Legislature allowing for the creation of the state’s first (three)… Read More
Public Schools: Starved or Stuffed?
In 2018, long-simmering frustrations regarding wages, working conditions, and general funding boiled over into a wave of teachers’ strikes, beginning in our home state of West Virginia and spreading throughout the country to Oklahoma, Arizona, and Colorado. The trend continued in 2019 in the Los Ang… Read More