Nothing instills more pride in West Virginia than seeing and experiencing its homegrown talent up close. Here are 10 products you can incorporate into your business to help spread the word about successful in-state entrepreneurship. Does your establishment pride itself on fine dining? Take attention to detail one step further with local flavor, using Smooth Ambler Spirits (Maxwelton) or Bloomery SweetShine (Charles Town) in your…
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Recent Stories from the Magazine
The Art of Renewal
An old building gets another chance in downtown Huntington when it becomes Marshall University’s Visual Arts Center. Sometime last fall Donald Van Horn was standing on a sidewalk in downtown Huntington studying the seven-story building in front of him. Putting a label on the building was tricky—no longer the old department store that it was, it hadn’t yet become the…
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A Knight’s Tale
From corrupt politicians to drug trafficking, the legal adventures of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia are many. Booth Goodwin and his staff work in an office tucked away in the federal courthouse in Charleston, behind massive stone walls and a security checkpoint. Visitors aren’t permitted to bring cell phones or computers inside. The morning I interviewed Goodwin, the…
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Thirst for Action
How a tap water crisis activated Charleston’s small business community. Jennifer Pettigrew Burns was washing dinner dishes when she got the text from one of her sons’ teachers. “‘Have you seen the news? You have to turn off your water.’” “I turned the TV on and the president of West Virginia American Water was on the news,” Burns recalls. “I…
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Who Runs Our Cities?
The role of mayor takes many forms across West Virginia. Running a municipality of any size is a heroic job. Traffic, garbage pickup, zoning—it’s the on-the-ground stuff that makes our daily lives frustrating or enjoyable, and the people who run our cities hear every detail. Asked who runs a city, those of us who haven’t engaged in city politics might…
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