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Expanding Opportunity: Penzance data center could provide a boost

Washington, D.C.-based Penzance Management has unveiled plans that could mark one of the largest private investments in West Virginia history — a proposed $4 billion data center campus spanning 1.9 million square feet on 548 acres in Falling Waters. Gov. Patrick Morrisey rightly described ...

High Points of the Valley

* Bankers and others who worry about those susceptible to vicious scams have been glad to see movement on a couple of efforts to address cryptocurrency kiosks in the state. House Finance Chairman Vernon Criss, R-Wood, took the lead on House Bill 5353, which would create a regulatory framework ...

Reporter's Notebook: Hope floats

Much as I predicted last week, the Hope Scholarship educational voucher program remains intact for the next fiscal year. Instead of recommending its first originating bill to reform the Hope program, the House Finance Committee recommended a new originating bill that only changed the payment ...

Look Back: Creston, Calliopes and Dishes, part 2

In the previous Look Back, myself and a friend, Howard Bailey, made a trip to Creston, located on the Little Kanawha River in Calhoun County. He reviving memories of when his father rode log rafts from there to the mill at Nicolette; me trying to record the history that Howard ...

Kiki's Corner: Giving up negativity for Lent

How many of you watch the Winter Olympics? We are so proud of the American hockey men’s team that received the gold medal! What an honor after all these years since 1980. Those young men, I know how hard they work, and they deserve it. So happy they got all the recognition … I think all ...