MOVING MOUNTAINS

West Virginia is defined by mountains. Its nickname is The Mountain State. Its official motto is “Mountaineers are Always Free.”  And so it is no surprise that the West Virginia Department of Transportation has become adept at working with the mountains...

"It depends upon what the meaning of the word 'is' is.”

Does this sentence ring a bell?  You will probably recall that it was made by former president Bill Clinton as he was defending against allegations of an affair with Monica Lewinsky. Like any good lawyer, Clinton p...

BLACKFEET INDIANS BRING NEW 

PERSPECTIVE TO FEMA STRIKE TEAMS 

Newspaper Story for FEMA

October 15, 2005

DALLAS, Texas--Hurricanes are indiscriminate. They strike all people with equal force, without regard to class or social strata, color or background, or religion or cul...

IN CERTAIN CIRCLES...

If the marketing gurus of the new Clay Center in Charleston were seeking the perfect metaphor for their new palace of arts and sciences, they would need look no further than Cavortech, the kinetic sculpture which sits at the nucleus of the facility...

In the arthouse film American Splendor,  Toby, a mentally challenged film lover, tells his friend (and the film’s protagonist), the cartoonist Harvey Pekar, that he is driving from Cleveland to Toledo to see his favorite film.  Pekar asks skeptically, “What kind of mov...

Long before there were railroads, and much longer before there were highways and airports, America's preferred form of travel was on its rivers.  The Mighty Ohio and other rivers were America's first Interstate highways. Travel and trade plied the rivers and created Am...