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01/03/2024 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Kayla Young, Ric Cavender, and Jeremy Smith · The Dave Allen Show

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and our good friend Delegate Kayla Young, Good morning. How are you.
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Good morning, Dave. I'm doing good. Happy New Year, Happy New
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Year. I was gonna ask you how was your How was your holiday season?
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My holiday season was good. My son's tenth birthday was yesterday, so
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we called Big New Year Bash with four ten year olds in a hotel room.
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It was a lot of fun. I mean, if you're you know,
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if you got one of those birthdays, it's around a holiday, you
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know, around Christmas or New Year's or Thanksgiving, some probably more so Christmas.
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You probably feel like litt kids as probably getting jamped here. I mean
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you double the gifts though, right, or you double the fun. My
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gift is always the birthday party. So okay, all right, we do
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because it guess they have everything they need. Yeah, that's you know.
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Holidays were good. Well, that's good. Any New Year's resolutions I don't
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really make. I usually make like really weird resolutions, like entering a chili
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cookoff or like pretty low latency stuff because session gets started and then I'm you
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know, I'm working for the people, So I'm not worried about my resumes,
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not worried about myself, not worried about my I'm working for you.
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That's correct, all right, that's a good you can feel feel free to
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use that. So you mentioned next week is the beginning of the sessions.
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So what are the some of the things on your U on your wish list?
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And side note here, I'm resisting the urge to break into these are
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a few of my favorite things. I'm not saying that. No, ain't
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nobody want to hear that, But what are some of the things that are
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on the delegate young wish list for twenty twenty four? Yeah, the biggest
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thing that I'm working on is childcare this year, and it seems like we
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finally have a good conversation rolling about childcare. The pandemic really showed everybody that
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childcare is essential infrastructure, and I'm hoping that we can build on that.
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We have about twenty to twenty five thousand kids in West Virginia that don't have
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childcare, and so it's really great for workforce participation, for getting parents into
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the workforce that might not be able to otherwise because they either can't afford it
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or can't find a space that's open. Plus it's all about educating our future
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leaders and our young children in West Virginia. So it seems like a win
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win to me. And you mentioned that you feel that you're finally getting somewhere
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on childcare in West Virginia, so there's more dialogue, and I mean,
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we're finally realizing that we have some major issues here and that's got to take
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bipartisan effort, because nothing's going to get down without the help of the Republicans.
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As you've said before. Yeah, absolutely, And I don't find you
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you're an demoricrate. I am a democratic, yeah, but I don't find
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childcare to be a very partisan issue, and as you know, I'm often
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working across the aisle. You're right, I have to, but I would
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anyways because I think that's where good ideas get made. But with childcare,
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there was a Chamber bill that I supported a couple of years ago that was
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a tax credit for new employers. We haven't seen a lot of function with
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that one, so we're hoping to go in and expand it, but also
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do some on the other end to help out providers because they really need stabilization
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that they've gotten during the pandemic, but that's starting to go away, so
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figuring out ways that we can improve access and quality all at the same time.
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You know, I'm just glad we have people serving in the legislature because
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but my account, and I could be wrong with we've had something like seven
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to ten legislators that have resigned in the last little bit, either to run
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for higher office or to go back to the public sector. Most recently,
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yesterday, Delegate Cadem Hannah out of Webster County announced that he was going to
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be resigning to concentrate on his run for state auditor. I saw that.
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I think it's eight within the last I mean, we're only halfway through this
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legislature. Everybody, this is the set. We're going into the second year,
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so we're halfway done. And yeah, we've had eight leaves so far,
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and I've been sad because most of them have been younger people. And
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I don't know if you know. Something that I'm excited to talk about is
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in West Virginia we have some of the youngest legislators in the country. We
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have links forty five people out of one hundred and thirty four that are under
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forty five, which is a big deal. We're starting to see more millennials
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and gen zers in Congress. It's exciting future leaders are coming up, and
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we're losing some of those younger people. So I'm a little sad, and
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I'll echo what you said there. It's a trend that we have to have
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because forever on both sides of the aisle, that seems like it's been the
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same people over and over again. And I don't mean West Virginia but elsewhere,
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and we got to get we got to engage young people and make them
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want to be involved in the process, even if they don't run for office.
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I mean, just to be whether it's lobbying or whether it's I mean,
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Heaven forbid voting. Yeah, you know, you're getting out there and
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actually taking part in the process. Yeah. Absolutely. And younger people today
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have very different needs than some of the older folks serving. You know,
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we're all worried about student loans. That's something that a lot of older generations
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never really had to think about, and it's crippling a lot of younger generations.
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So you know, that's not really something in the state can make massive
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change on. But we have very different life, very different lives. There
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stances when I was growing up nine to eleven happened in the world changed,
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and so it's just a very different life. So how do we this is
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a million dollar question you and I've actually talked about it before. How do
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we get young people not to run for office, but to come to West
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Virginia or to want to stay in West Virginia. And what are some I
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don't want to go negative here, but what are some of the things that
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maybe in your opinion, West Virginia is not doing so well or needs work
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on to make some of these young people want to come to West Virginia or
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as I said, the ones that are here to stay in West Virginia and
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not head to Columbus, Charol That or Pittsburgh. Sure. Yeah, I
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think there's a lot of things. I think there's a quality of life peace,
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and I don't want to go down that partisan rabbit hole because that's not
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my game. But child back to childcare. I'm thirty five years old,
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I have two young kids. Most people I know aren't having children because they
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can't afford it. It's wild you have to pay college tuition every year out
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of pocket for childcare if the parents in the household want to work. So
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that's one that I think the first state that does not universal childcare, but
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some form of accessible, affordable childcare will be the state that every business wants
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to locate to and that every family wants to locate too. So that's where
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I think we start. But I think that there's a lot of things that
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we can do reaching out into different sectors like technology, as we've been starting
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to. I'm excited about the announcement today, and I'm excited to work on
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legislation about technology and artificial intelligence and language learning machines and things that we need
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to just update our code on what Della Young is referring to and you've heard
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us talking about it. We're going to have more on a little bit later
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on. There's announcement scheduled today at four o'clock at the Culture Center on the
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Capitol grounds. We do know that LG is going to be some sort of
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an investment in West Virginia. There's actually a meeting at one o'clock this afternoon
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of the Development Board of the Development Authority, and I've seen the agenda on
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that meeting, and they're going to do some things related to this. Now
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that we don't know a whole lot at this point, but we do know
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that the Governor's going to be there, ilected officials are going to be there,
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and actually the CEO, the main guy of LG, Mister l His
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name is John LG. Actually I just totally made that up. It's it's
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a South Korean company, but he's going to be there as well. Uh,
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and on others to we'll find out at the same time everybody else does
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what this big announcement is. But bottom line is it looks pretty promising for
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West Virginia and and Dellie Young. We've had a lot of announcements like that
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over the last couple of years we have and I've been really excited to work
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with a lot of them and I'm excited about those announcements and they hope they
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continue. So we with the With the new year, new laws came into
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being, as you as you well know they we talked about some of those
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yesterday stated inspections on your vehicle now every every other year. But one of
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those was the splitting up of d HHR and so it's into different divisions and
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people like me and the media are going to have to learn to not just
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say d HHR anymore because it's all different things. Uh, your your your
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take on the breakup, so to speak. Excited about the breakup. I
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think it's a much needed breakup. It was way too much work for one
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person, one secretary to handle. I've been meeting with the new secretaries and
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I feel really engaged. They say a lot of the works already started happening,
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and I'm really excited about that. I think there's a lot to do
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still. I did see that the longtime general counsel of the former DHHR,
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the artist formerly known as the DHHR, she retired yesterday, so that I'm
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a little nervous about what that that's in the wake of a scandal about data,
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which is something the state also needs to get a massive chronic handle on
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as data management as we move into technology fields. But I'm excited about the
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DHHR breakup, and I think it was a good thing. Again, that
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was not a partisan thing. Pretty much all of us supported it, and
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I just think we were at a pretty bad place. So I don't think
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it can get much worse, hopefully, And it does look like we are
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getting some people hired for the correction systems, I believe, So Yeah,
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I think there's still a little bit of work to be done in the corrections
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field. We didn't do much for the non uniform staff, and then the
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older corrections officers. I'm on TikTok. I don't know, and I've actually
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engaged with a ton of corrections officers in West Virginia, ones that wouldn't probably
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support me in any capacity, but that's okay. But I've learned so much
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about their jobs, and we did some things where we probably put the older
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correctional officers who've been there for decades at a disadvantage, and so I'm hoping
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that we can fix that this session. I've heard it's potentially coming a text
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to the show here, and you referenced this. I don't think you came
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out and said this, but you did reference the issue with student loans.
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Somebody textas show and ask why the text are saying why my tax dollars should
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go to pay off someone else's student loans. I did not sign the loan.
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They did. That's true. They didn't. They didn't at all.
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But I think that we had a societal culture, and I don't really blame
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anybody that said you had to go to college. I went to college.
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I didn't know what I wanted to be. I changed my major a bunch
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of times. I think that's common for younger people. But I do think
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that it's debt that's absolutely crippling. I understand people it didn't happen to them,
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so they don't want to pay for it. But that's just not really
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how society works in my mind. So let me get this in here to
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guys and gals and folks of people we'll legislators, we'll get to work next
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week. You look at the numbers, Delegate, there's still not a whole
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lot of Democrats there. There aren't, that's right. Yeah, we're at
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eighty nine to eleven at this time in the House, and then in the
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Senate it's thirty one to three. Okay, So what has that been like
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working? Because the numbers have dwindled as you've been there a Democrat. My
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first session we had twenty two. It got cut in half the second session.
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For me personally, it hasn't meant that much of a shift. Honestly.
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You can't do much more with twenty than you can with eleven. And
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you know, we've seen a massive shift over the past decade in West Virginia.
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But I don't know, I don't I don't know. I work with
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everybody. I think that you know, a lot of the people who have
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been there a long time said that the Democrats treated them poorly and that they
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treat the minority much better. I can't speak to that, but I think
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power kind of corrupts anybody that's in charge, so I don't think the Democrats
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were above that either. So I just hope that we can work together for
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people. My district is split fifty to fifty literally almost to the voter down
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the middle. There's independence as well, but I mean, you know how
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close my last election was, and so I know where my voters are,
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and they're not They're not to the far right, they're not to the far
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left. They're in the middle. So I just want to do what they
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want. Maybe you could join Joe Manchin out on tour to try to find
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the middle. That's what he's doing right now. I got work to do
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here. I'm always trying to find other things for you to do. You
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mentioned that you are running for reelection. Yes, I am, okay,
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And you have a primary oponent I understand, and you also are going to
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have more likely an opponent in the general election as well. So what is
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your message? Why should people send you back to the legislature. My message
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is about transparency and accountability and you know, fixing things that need fixed.
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We have a lot of things. I'm in the weeds person. I care
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about the very, very boring things. I like to read legislative rules that
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might not be cute or fun, but it is incredibly important and it's where
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the work gets done. And I've been told by so many different secretaries of
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agencies who don't agree with me politically that they've never had a legislator come in
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and ask them what they do here and just try to learn about what they
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do and what their jobs are before we make rules that impact everybody's lives.
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So I just want to keep working for the people of West Virginia and keep
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giving them what they asked for. I supported last year's tax cuts. I
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supported the inspection sticker. I don't stick with my party all the time,
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and I think that's okay. Well, I mean, yeah, I don't.
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I don't disagree with that, and I sometimes wish that some of your
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Republican brethren would do that as well, stand up for their for their people,
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FRS the word spelled out Kayla Young for WV on every platform ex Twitter,
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Facebook, whatever we're calling you these days, TikTok, not YouTube. That's
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Young says she works with everyone, but her tiktoks say different. As I
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said, I don't. I don't tick, nor do I talk, So
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I don't know. I got it, Cavendar, I got to get me
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one of them tiktoks. Where do you get one of them tiktoks? You
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know what? I don't know? I'm I think I'm too old. I
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mean I watched it. Well, if you're too old, I mean how
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old am I? I'm older than twenty years older than you are. Welcome
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to the show. Rick Cavator, Executive director of Charleston Irber works for me
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Charleston Main Streets and with the Knawk County Board of Education, double duty.
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How are you, sir? I'm doing well. Good Christmas and it is
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a good Christmas with my boys in our new house we're settling in. He
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had a rough year, but a lot to be thanking twenty twenty three is
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over, but a lot to be thankful for into twenty twenty four. That's
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right, that's right. Let's talk about business stuff here. Now you get
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a name changed. You didn't personally, No, No, you're still Rick
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without the K. Cavender, just like my idole, Rick Flair. But
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Charleston Main Streets got a new name, Charleston Urban Works. Talking about that
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a little bit, Yeah, yeah, you know, I think I came
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on to sort of briefly talk about it when we did rebranding. And you
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know, we went through a pretty much a year long strategic planning process and
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the result of that was a restructuring and a rebranding that's sort of this too
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prong approach. And and you know, we we solely focus on our urban
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neighborhood business districts. We're pretty unique in that regard when it comes to other
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organizations like ours. You know, we have a great Downtown Charleston Association.
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They focus solely in the downtown that that core right there, you know,
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but our work is really centered around these urban neighborhood business districts where there are
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tons of residential property that surround these this core like that that strip if you
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want to say, at Washington Street East and West and of course over the
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warehouse district on the east end, five corners on the west side. And
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so you know that makes us, that makes our work. You know that
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that presents different challenges, maybe different opportunities. And so through a really thoughtful
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strategic planning process with our whole board, we went through that, like I
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said, and rebranding and restructuring was what came out of that, and we're
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really excited about it. We worked with eighty four Agency. They they did
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our name to our name changed on rebranding. That did incredible job and we're
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in the process of rolling that out now. Talk about the year in business
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for your department in twenty twenty three, this specific businesses highlights and where are
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you going twenty twenty four. You know, one thing that we're really going
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to be focused on, Dave, is assessing looking at and assessing our vacant
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properties. It's really interesting what we've seen happen. You know, we didn't
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see I think we might have talked about this last time I was on.
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We didn't see a lot of closures during COVID right here in Charleston. We
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did not see a lot of business closures during COVID, where nationally we saw
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a lot of that. Here we are three years out of well, I
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guess three years since COVID started, almost four and we've seen some closures occur
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on our in our East End district. We've seen some businesses close on the
21:42
West Side. Not just in those two areas we've seen it happen. We
21:45
also seen new businesses open. We've seen businesses prosper. We've seen different types
21:51
of industries come into the into what we would consider our our urban neighborhood business
21:56
district and they've they've they've thrived, done really well. And so we're gonna
21:59
be look and that is looking at the vacant properties and saying like, you
22:02
know, what are the barriers that what's causing folks not to be able to
22:07
go into these businesses and or these buildings rather and invest and start their business.
22:11
What we're a small organization, we know we can't solve it all,
22:14
but we're gonna be working really hard on our partnerships and figuring out how can
22:18
we work with other people to make these properties more accessible. And what happens
22:22
so many times, I'm not saying necessarily Rickets in this case. But what
22:26
happens so many times across America is you have all these different groups out here,
22:30
but nobody's on the same page. And sometimes you have or not in
22:33
your case, but sometimes you have organizations that find themselves a file of a
22:37
county commission or a city council or whatever the case may be. Again,
22:41
not your case, but it is good to hear that there's efforts being made
22:45
to try to get everybody together and to them, I'm glad you said that,
22:48
because to that point, Dave, we're really lucky here in Charleston,
22:51
and really you can all county everyone really does for the most part, seeing
22:53
the same song, is all really wanting the same thing. Everyone wants to
22:56
see this area prosper. We have incredible partners, but whether it's the the
23:02
Renewal Authority, the Convention of Visitors Bureau, certainly the City of Charleston City
23:04
Council, our Mayor's administration, our County Commission, everybody wants to see this
23:10
entire region prosper. And as far as my line of work is concerned with
23:15
the people that I work with every day, whether that's elected officials, whether
23:18
that's department heads, whether that's you know CEOs of these different agencies, these
23:22
partner agencies of ours, we all sort of share a piece of that puzzle,
23:27
if you will, and really want to work together, and it's it's
23:30
it's promising for the new year. Rick cavan is our guest today from what
23:36
used to be known as the Main treats Charleston Urban Works and from the Canaw
23:40
County Board of Education Agains, two separate entities. We're going to get into
23:42
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hurts you, you know, Rick and now, like a young and I
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kind of touched this a little bit earlier. It's been a pretty exciting time
24:04
in West Virginia with the job growth and creation that's going on. Talking about
24:07
state wide, there's another announcement with this LG thing coming later today. Uh,
24:11
you know new Core Berkshire, Hathaway, the green bus projects. So
24:15
all these things happening over the last couple of years, and there's exciting things
24:21
going on on a local level too. How do we work together kind of
24:23
back to what we said before, to kind of partner on all because West
24:26
Virginia has got a spotlight on it right now, rick as a place to
24:30
do business and and that's kind of what you're You're in the business of helping
24:36
people to get into business, so to speak, into And so how do
24:40
we all work together on this? You know, it's you asked it.
24:41
Excuse me, you asked that question. And I feel like there are so
24:45
many great examples here locally, and again I work mostly locally. I don't
24:49
really work, but it all kind of works, you know. And I
24:53
think there's actually a lot of lessons to be learned on how folks work together
24:57
here in Charleston. I mean, I think there are a lot of really
25:00
and case studies on how so many entities can come together that have they may
25:03
have different interests individually, but they also have those shared interest and make something
25:07
to push something forward. And we've seen that happen time and time again.
25:11
I mean, I've been on a couple of times to talk about our lighting
25:12
initiative right on the West side. We brought so many different parties into that
25:17
to make that happen. That all have their own individual interest, whether that's
25:19
funders, whether that's you know, foundations, whether that's again department heads in
25:25
the city, our administration or our mayoral administration and the city administration. They
25:29
all have their own things going on in their own priorities, but they also
25:32
know that this particular project is important among so many others, right, and
25:34
so we we saw so many different groups get together for that common good,
25:38
for that project, and we're moving right along with that project. We're in
25:41
phase two now, so and we'll see that we'll see that be completed here
25:44
in the next few months, a couple months actually. So that's just one
25:47
example I think that I think my point is is that there are a lot
25:49
of interesting case studies, a lot of examples that can be learned here in
25:52
Charst and how people can partner better and work together for the common good to
25:56
kind of take what you've done here, and yeah, I have everybody else
25:59
Canta and so many other folks have done. Yeah, let's talk about the
26:02
West Side for a moment. Of course, the big story on the West
26:03
sided twenty twenty three from November on was the was the was the gas crisis.
26:10
It continues to you know, the ripple effects, so to speak.
26:12
How are things looking over there, specifically for businesses, you know, so
26:18
as I'm sure you know it was it was as far as our business district
26:22
was concerned, it was everyone south of Washington Street who was affected, right,
26:27
right, And so there were several business owners who reached out and said,
26:30
like, we have to close our doors. We obviously we can't operate,
26:33
right So they lost you know, thousands upon thousands of dollars of revenue
26:38
that they didn't experience because of that outage. There were certain you know,
26:44
more service related businesses that exist over there that they were they were coming in
26:48
and just wearing you know, two or three coats when on those really cold
26:51
days and still being in the office, or they would send their employees home
26:53
to work remotely, whatever the case was, because they had, you know,
26:56
they had a lot going on and they couldn't just stop work in their
27:00
office. Not only huge inconvenience, but I'm sure it cost. It costs
27:03
thus business owners a lot of money. So I'm so glad to see that
27:07
they're all recovering now from that. I'm glad that it was they were able
27:10
to get it fixed. I mean, I mean, I can't say quickly
27:12
because you know, I wasn't affected by it. Yeah, I'm sure it
27:15
didn't feel quickly to those folks. I'm glad that things are up and going
27:18
again there, but certainly it was not easy on them. Yeah. Absolutely
27:22
got a text here, and I don't know whether you want to respond to
27:25
this or not, but I know you're pretty open Gas, so I'm gonna
27:26
go ahead and read it, and says please ask Rick why the organization didn't
27:32
have a ribbon cutting on Washington Street West with a new dollar store open the
27:37
Dollar Tree. Oh, that's a that's an interesting question. You know,
27:40
typically when it comes to the more chain related businesses, we don't get a
27:45
lot of reach out from them, especially like the we've said we saw that
27:48
happen with like years ago, two thousand and nine. I want to say,
27:51
when Dollar General opened on the East End, you know, we didn't
27:53
get a lot of reach out from from them, you know, at that
27:56
corporate level, sometimes it's harder, you know, to to sort of like
28:00
find the right person to get in touch with. You can't just talk to
28:02
the manager. Typically it's someone usually higher up. Yeah, it's a little
28:04
bit different scenario than when you're working with a local, locally owned business where
28:08
that knows and knows with that person and they they're texting you, you know,
28:11
directly at you know, eight o'clock at night, saying hey, can
28:14
you help us do this or whatever. So just sort of a different dynamic.
28:17
We're always open. I want to make it clear, we're always open
28:19
for assisting even those more chained businesses that exist in our districts because at the
28:23
end of the day, that's still you know, revenue for local revenue.
28:27
Some of that revenue is staying in the same and it employs local it employs
28:30
local people. That's exactly right. So so never never get that confused.
28:34
We want to support everyone, but sometimes those dynamics are a little different.
28:37
When you're looking and as somebody who's done on the other end from the business
28:41
level, it is kind of difficult because you know, sometimes if you're dealing
28:45
with it and I don't know that this is necessarily the case here but sometimes
28:48
you're dealing with somebody in Seattle or Milwaukee's and so. But well, Texas.
28:53
Three restaurants closed within a block of each other in Elk City in the
28:56
past year. So other than Dollar Tree, are there any other businesses in
28:59
the appline to replace those losses to bring people back to the district. It's
29:03
a great question. So you probably saw the announce maybe saw the announcement,
29:07
you know where Gonzoberger was. I'm sure that's one of the businesses that this
29:08
person is referencing. There is a new restaurant going in there. We'll see
29:12
that open here. I'm hoping in the next couple of months, few months.
29:15
I don't want to speak for that business owner, but we're open.
29:17
That'll open soon. Another huge development that's that's in process right now, and
29:22
I'm sure you saw the announcement, is the old Stat's Hospital building is being
29:26
fully the first three floors I believe are being fully renovated. Legal Aid is
29:30
going to be going there and moving their offices there. They're Charleston offices,
29:33
which I believe is their largest office. I just met with them recently.
29:37
That's a huge investment that's going to be happening in the Yx City district.
29:40
I believe over fifty people or seventy people I believe are employed there. So
29:44
that's seventy new sets of feet on the street every day. I think that
29:47
will easily attract even more business to come and open up in that particular district.
29:52
You know, And as far as a couple of the other businesses are
29:55
concerned, we saw books and Bruce Clothes, you know, a few months
29:57
back. That's a very that's a very large space as you as you know,
30:00
there's an advertisement there for the rent with the least amount is you know,
30:04
we are sort of experiencing like like we mentioned earlier, we're experiencing sort
30:08
of this this economic uh some in some instances, we're seeing some economic issues
30:12
with small business owners being able to invest. Right now. That's a large
30:15
space, and so you know, I know Tay who owns thy Bulla co
30:18
owns that property among several others. He's working really hard to advertise those properties,
30:22
and we want to help him any way we possibly can. You know,
30:26
we we do acknowledge that there there were three businesses that close very quickly,
30:30
all for different reasons. It wasn't because business wasn't there, right yeah,
30:33
you know, there's definitely buying power there. But back to my point,
30:37
I originally made look at these vacant spaces and figure out how we can
30:41
best help get them filled again. I want to ask you a couple of
30:44
cool questions about your other job. I don't I like to kind of separate
30:45
the two, but but there's a couple of things come up. I did
30:48
want to get your opinion on. First, it's a new school year.
30:51
The students head back to including your your kids I guess headed back to school
30:55
in this morning. And uh in Canaana County schools, as far as the
31:00
school board goes, you lost a member, Ryan White reside because he's going
31:04
to be running I understand for the Intermediate Court of Appeals. Ryan did a
31:10
lot of good things with the Bard of Educate huge loss for for our Board
31:11
of Education. Ryan White obviously cares about every student in this county, but
31:18
he also cares he cares really deeply about the system in general. And you
31:22
know, he's also a good close friend of mine and our sons have grown
31:25
up together. And you know it's gonna be hard to replace Ryan because he
31:30
brought such an incredible skill set to the board. Being an elected member of
31:34
that board, asked a lot of questions a lot of us didn't think to
31:38
ask at times. Really really incredibly intelligent guy, as I mentioned last night,
31:44
you know, definitely a huge shoes to fill there. We have a
31:47
big job ahead of us to appoint that seat. How exactly does that work
31:51
with the border of k So anytime a vacancy occurs, it's sort of twofold.
31:56
So I'll be as quick as I possibly count this because as a little
31:57
complicated, when a vacancy occurs, we as a board vote to uh to
32:01
fill that seat. So we we nominate a person and we vote as a
32:05
board to fill that seat. Where in this particular instance where we are in
32:08
the middle of his term, it would be different if it was toward the
32:13
end of his term, right, But but there is an election coming up,
32:15
you know, my election is actually coming up. But there are two
32:17
seats usually open this coming this coming cycle. Where there's an election coming up
32:22
and he still has two years left, there will have to be a special
32:23
election. We'll go ahead and appoint that seat. I think we talked about
32:27
yesterday appointing that on the eighteenth of this month. Going ahead and getting that
32:30
filled or going through an application process, and there'll be more about that here
32:34
soon. But but that that that person, if that person chooses to round,
32:37
that's up to that's up to them. But that third seat, just
32:40
for this cycle will be up on the ballot. So what will happen is
32:45
when you go to vote in May, because we're a non part is an
32:46
election, so the May elections asides. When you go to vote in May,
32:51
the top three vote getters will continue on for you know, will win
32:57
keep, either keep or win their seats on the board. Whoever comes in
33:00
third, well, if I understand correctly, this is what we talked about
33:02
last night. Whoever comes in third will fill that two year term and then
33:06
we'll have to run again in two years. It is complicated. It is
33:08
a little complicated. Which it's not the only complicated thing when it comes to
33:12
elections for school board's district stuff and all that. It's a different it's a
33:15
different almost like to see the judicial races. It's a it's an entirely different
33:20
thing, all right. Final thing here, at a recent Canawa County Board
33:23
meeting rick during the public comment period, there was a citizen who I will
33:27
reference does not live in Kanawha County as to speak to the county policy,
33:32
not the county boards policy, but the the policy made by the US Supreme
33:37
Court. The county has nothing to do with concerning transgender students and their use
33:42
of school restrooms. Uh. He went as far this person did as to
33:46
call for the firing of board members from the daytime jobs. Any comments on
33:50
that, I mean, I'm I just I don't really comment. I don't
33:55
like to give folks a lot of breath when it comes to this type of
34:00
thing. I mean, you know, we we are we want to hear
34:04
from the public. Right, that is what public That's what delegation time is
34:07
for. Right for for for our constituents to come and and and give us
34:10
their concerns. I'm not really interested in being screamed at or yelled at as
34:15
a as a public servant, especially when like we're literally doing our jobs in
34:21
that as you just mentioned earlier, Supreme Court has already set the precedent for
34:24
this. It is a it was a Supreme Court decision, and we are
34:29
following that precedent. And it's really that simple. And so like I don't
34:32
know the gentleman, I don't know him. So there's nothing personal whatsoever.
34:37
It felt I will you know, obviously it filed about a personal in the
34:38
moment, just from you call for somebody to lose their jobs. I mean,
34:43
yeah, yeah, that kind of becomes personal. Yeah, And I
34:45
mean, you know, when they're following the Supreme Court decision not a policy
34:49
set forth by Knaw County School, correct, And that was very clearly outlined
34:53
by our general counsel in that meeting before anyone spoke as delegation. So that's
34:59
really my position on it is that we're doing our jaws by following that precedent.
35:04
All right, Rick, I appreciate you as always for being here.
35:07
Give us the information for Charleston Urban Works again work can people learn more about
35:09
the different projects and so on? And so yes, Well, actually,
35:12
right now, we're in the process of building our new website. So we
35:15
lost a staff member a couple months ago, and so it's just me right
35:17
now, and we're in the process of moving offices and all this kind stuff.
35:20
So we're a little behind there. But the good news is you can
35:22
still find all information about us on our Facebook page, which still says Charleston
35:25
Main Streets. Because Facebook won't allow us to switch the name. I'm not
35:29
sure what's going on, and HiT's a Facebook thing, trust me. We
35:31
were dealing with it with one of our radio stations and the building that switched
35:35
and it's a problem. Yeah. We switched several months ago and it still
35:37
has the old station listen and we can't do anything about it. We're working
35:40
on there's not a customer service. So anyway, if you go to our
35:43
Facebook things, that's the best way to find the most update information. We'll
35:45
be making the full switch here in the next couple of weeks and our new
35:50
website to be launched, so you know, stay tight or sit tight,
35:52
stay tuned and you'll hear more. All right, Rick, I appreciate you
35:54
taking time to be here. Man, thanks you so much. We're running
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39:00
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Allen from that group on the show has been on in the past, and
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they're kind of aiding Jeremy and his efforts. Jeremy Smith joins us right now
39:14
via the Bigley Pigley Wiggley Hotline. Jeremy, good morning, Welcome to the
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show. Hey, thanks for having me. First of all, tell us
39:21
about this group that you are the director of the First Choice Services and talk
39:23
about the West Virginian Navigator program. Sure, So, I work with a
39:28
nonprofit here in town here in Charleston called First Choice Services. We operate a
39:34
lot of the social service and behavioral health help lines for West Virginia, so
39:38
eight four four help for WV for addiction and mental health, the nine eight
39:43
eight suicide Prevention Lifeline, the one eight hundred Gambler line for folks dealing with
39:46
the gambling problem, the Tobacco Quit Line, and then we also have a
39:52
grant from the federal government to operate the West Virginian Navigator Program. And so
39:59
that's the program the director of It's just a free, grant funded service to
40:04
help people find and sign up for health coverage. So we've been doing that
40:07
for a number of years, but we wanted to try something new this year
40:09
before the tedline and try to help as many people as possible and cover West
40:15
Virginia. Day I referenced earlier is designed to get the word out. It's
40:19
next Tuesday, the ninth. State wide. A lot of groups are hitting
40:22
the road next week heading out to understand that, Jeremy, about thirty or
40:24
so different spots all over the Mountain state that does that, correct. Yeah,
40:29
So it's going to be designed to where we're going to have I think
40:31
at this point we've got around thirty five different locations around West Virginia to where
40:37
somebody can just show up to one of those locations and get free assistance.
40:40
So it's going to be like you said, our January ninth, from ten
40:45
am to four pm, you can just show up with no appointment and be
40:47
able to talk with either a navigator or a certified application counselor who is just
40:53
you know, grant funded to provide free assistance. So if you don't have
40:59
health insurance, you know, the programs we can help out with is the
41:02
West Virginia Medicaid program CHIP for Kids, and then the plans on what's called
41:07
the Health Insurance Marketplace, which has an enrollment deadline for twenty twenty four of
41:12
January sixteenth. So this is definitely the time of yeer to pay attention and
41:16
you know, if you don't have insurance, maybe take advantage of this day
41:20
to get your questions answered. Is there a convenient place, Jeremy, where
41:22
people can go to find out where because you know, with this station we
41:27
cover a lot of ground, but we also have listeners in all parts of
41:30
the state that listen via the apps and the websites whatever. Is there a
41:32
convenient location where they can go where they can see where these are in their
41:36
neighborhood, Yeah, definitely. So you can go to our website wz navigator
41:40
dot com. And then also you can visit the Primary Care Association's website wv
41:46
PCA dot org and both locations have a list of all the different locations around
41:52
the state and a little bit more information on what we're doing on cover West
41:57
Virginia Day. So again it's wv Navigator and you know it's got all the
42:02
information you'll need to learn a little bit more about it. Well, Jeremy,
42:06
I know you're busy and it takes a lot to pull this thing off.
42:07
And that was going to be my final question is how in the world
42:09
do you get all these different organizations together, get everybody on the same page
42:14
to kind of get a game plan for an event that's happening. As you
42:16
said, thirty five locations stay wide. That's got to be a heavy lift,
42:20
my friend. Yeah, We're going to see how it goes. This
42:22
is going to be this is the first time we've ever done it. We
42:24
hope this is going to be an annual thing from here on out. You
42:29
know, we've done a lot of planning meetings, We've cut a lot of
42:30
stuff together pretty quickly. But you know, we've got a lot of really
42:35
great groups around the state that provides this free assistance every day. It's just
42:39
people may not know about it. So we wanted to bring everybody together all
42:43
in one day and just really kind of raise awareness around the state about,
42:47
you know, our uninsured population here in West Virginia and make sure that they
42:52
know that there are options and that they can go to one of these trusted
42:54
sources and get their questions answered. All right, it's all going to be
42:58
next week. Give us that website again. People can find the locations Jeremy
43:01
sure WV navigator dot com. And then, of course, if you need
43:06
a little bit more information, you want to talk to somebody, you can
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call us at three oh four three five six five eight three four three five
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six five eight three four. All right, Jeremy, program director for West
43:16
Virginia Choice Services and the head of the West Virginia Navigator program, Big doings
43:22
next week. Good luck with everything and we'll talk again soon. Thanks a
43:24
lot, all right, thank you Jeremy Smith. Again. The Dave Allen
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number of Winfield kind of touch on this a little bit earlier. This big
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economic announcement coming later today. Brad has an end depth story posted about at
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wv metronews dot com. You probably have one or two of their TVs in
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your house. I know I do. They're a South Korean company LG,
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and they're coming to West Virginia. Apparently, big announcement coming at for this
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afternoon at the Culture Center. Governor Justice WU, President Gordon Gee and others
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will be on hand. The CEO of LG will be there as well.
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Nothing more to report at this time. There's special board meeting as I mentioned
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earlier of the state's Economic Development Authority schedule for one this afternoon leading up to
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the big announcement. Among the items on the agenda this is their wording to
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consider approval of a resolution related to the provision of a loan or loans to
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support a project or projects in kanaw And or Jefferson and or Montgelia counties in
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quote. Now again that's their word. Word is. The announcement has to
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do with high tech six figure it it jobs, maybe one hundred or more.
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We'll take it. We'll absolutely take We've got a call. Let's go
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to the phone lines. You're on the air, Go ahead, am I
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on there you are? Yes, O case James and Dunbars. Yes,
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Jae Id like to see. I want to get your pension, your opinion
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on mansion coming back and maybe renting as governor again. Don't think it's gonna
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happen. It's been talked about before. Matter of fact, a couple of
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years ago. That was. I think he's pretty much in my opinion,
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I could be wrong, James, I think he's pretty much done. I
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think he's going to go search in the country for the middle as he said.
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Is that something that you would like to see happen, sir, Well,
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something's gonna have to happen here in our state and our country. I'm
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not I like Jim Justice, but I don't think Jim Justice is ready to
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be a US senator. Okay, Why do you feel that way? Well,
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I just don't feel he's able to do the job. Be it,
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Okay. I think he needs to be in politics a little bit longer before
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we tries to tackle that job. All right, all right, James,
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I appreciate your phone call. Thanks a lot it's four minutes away from ten
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Tex, says, I bet the LG announcement will be that LG is moving
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a call center here. Well, six figure for a call center seems like
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an awful lot of money. Hey, you know, it's still jobs.
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But I don't know a whole lot of call centers that pay six figures.
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But we'll see, we'll see. I will see. Like I have no
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inside information whatsoever, I will find out when you do at four o'clock this
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afternoon during that announcement at the Culture Center. But Dave Allen showing five eight
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Carpet Lounge on Elizabeth Street in Charleston. I was talking to a friend of
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mine earlier this morning. Yes, I have friends Jeff, believe it or
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not, one or two, and they were talking about the number of economic
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announcements that we've had in West Virginia and this money of mine. He's an
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older gavit I am, probably late sixties, and he told me that during
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his lifetime he doesn't remember a time in the state when there are as many
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have been as many major economic announcements as what there have been, and good
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and good news announcements for lack of better terms, what we've had the last
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couple of years. And I will say this editorial comment, now, this
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is what happens when you elect business people to office. Now I'm going to
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get those texts that are going to say Biden, Biden by yeah, and
50:42
I'm not gonna lie. And the economic officials are going to say that some
50:45
of these things have been because of the Biden administration, but things like new
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Corps have been in works for a long long time. So and again,
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they're choosing West Virginia for a reason. And and there's any number of reasons
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why they're choosing West Virginia. You can talk all you want about Biden and
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about these things that the Biden administration has done. But that doesn't mean they're
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coming to West Virginia. Okay. That means that they could put that plan
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in Texas, or they could put it in Kentucky or Pennsylvania or wherever.
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They are coming to West Virginia. And when my opinion, when you put
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people with a proven track record of job creation, this is what you're gonna
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get, and you're gonna get these kind of announcements. We just hope though,
51:25
that they all come to Fruition. And we actually they're as big as
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I mean, New corp Is. They're already coming from New cort To Trust
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me, I live in Putnam County. I see it every day. They're
51:34
already coming Mason County as well. So we just hope and all of these
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things, or at least a great number of that happened on the watch of
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Governor Jim Justice. And a lot of people may not agree with that,
51:44
maybe they don't like the governor or whatever, but I mean, don't think
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he's not going to capitalize that when the advertising rolls out. A quick note
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here, Charleston City Council meets tonight the Mayor's annual State of the City is
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expected to be on the agenda. One of the expected items up for vote
51:58
by Council tonight is to support a seas night outside City Hall calling for that
52:02
ceasefire. It was an interfaith visual organized by religious leaders of different faiths around
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the city. Not one hundred people showed up for that last night from what
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I'm told, so that it is expected to be voted on ceasefire. A
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resolution supporting that tonight is supposed to be voted on at Charleston City Council.
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We will of course keep you posting. Coming up on the show tomorrow,
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West Virginia Secretaries Take candidate Chris Warner will be on the show to mark and
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on candychmiss Ben Selango is here and the new head of the West Virginia Manufacturer
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Association, mister Bill Missett, will be on the show tomorrow as well.
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My producer was Hollywood Jeff Petty, thank you so much. Starting tomorrow with
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teaming up with Thorne Thorning up for something called Drop Your Socks. I'm gonna
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have details on that coming up tomorrow as well. Hobbies Next Sea tomorrow.
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