The HOPE Scholarship program in West Virginia was created to provide parents opposed to public education a financial crutch to either home school or to send their kids to private schools. Jim Bauman argues that the high price tag of HOPE is paid out at the expense of improving our public schools. He wonders is public education a priority of our Republican dominated government or is the destruction of public education a goal?
MAGA and the Republican control over government in West Virginia and Jefferson County is not paving a way for us to achieve the greatness that MAGA claims to lay. Jim Bauman considers the consequences of following MAGA methods of control, methods which have been used historically to suppress and oppress. We need to vote ourselves in legislators who are led by the humanitarian principles of our Declaration of Independence and Constitution.
Water and sewer reliability is an on-going problem in places in Jefferson County. The town of Bakerton, once prospering is a case in point. Bakerton’s jerry-rigged system of water delivery is failing and residents are hard pressed to afford to improve it. Jim Bauman describes the history and current situation of water in the community.