The story so far: To address the pandemic, W.Va. adopted a Harvard Global color-coded risk assessment map, which calls for shutting down a lot of activities when spread of the virus gets to dangerous levels (orange), and going full stay-at-home when spread...
...reaches critical levels (red). However, instead of applying it to all societal activities as intended, the W.Va. version was "tweaked" so it only applies to public schools and nursing home visitation.
Further "tweaks" counted outbreaks among nursing home residents and correctional facility inmates as one person, and tracked small population counties on a more generous 14-day rolling average.
However, despite the tweaks, cases surged, pushing upwards of a dozen counties into orange or red levels.
Public reaction was not to step back, hunker down, and close high-risk settings until the risk subsided.
Public reaction was to demand that high school football games be allowed in high risk counties, and the administration, in its tradition of reacting to whoever was last to cry most loudly, set out to further weaken the Harvard Global matrix, to allow sports in high-risk counties
Based on today's briefing, orange will be broken up into high risk orange (virtual classes, no football, but bars, restaurants, churches stay open) and a sorta high risk new color (same as above, but, yea, football!)
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I think every Charleston baseball fan was disappointed when the W.Va. Power didn't get an invite into the new, 120-team Minor Leagues. However, if we join the independent Atlantic League, there's a lot of positives. What follows is a few examples. 1/ 9
1. Later start of seasons. Full-season Minor Leagues start their seasons (in normal years) the first week of April. The Atlantic League (in normal years) starts the last week of April.
Aprils in Charleston tend to be rainy and chilly, not conducive to watching baseball.
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2. Later end of seasons. Minor League regular seasons end on Labor Day (to accommodate expansion of Major League rosters).
Without player development ties to the Majors, the Atlantic League regular season goes to the last week of September -- one of our nicest weather months.
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State Code on FOIA law (29B-1-3(f)) states: "The Secretary of State shall maintain an electronic data base of notices of requests as required by section three-a of this article. The database shall be made available to the public via the Internet... 1/4
...and shall list each freedom of information request received and the outcome of the request. The Secretary of State shall provide on the website a form for use by a public body to report the results of the freedom of information request...
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providing the nature of the request and the public body's response thereto, whether the request was granted, and if not, the exemption asserted under section four of this article to deny the request."
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