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and good Thursday morning to your last Thursday in April. And Harvey Peyton
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is here at the Peyton Law Firm in Nitro. Lines are open for your
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cause. Anything about the law three or four, three four, five fifty
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eight fifty eight three oh four three four or five fifty to fifty eight.
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Good morning sir, Well, good morning, Jeff. It's great to be
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here. It's have you here, well, it was coming in this morning
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from beautiful It's downtown down Valley Plutnam County through Nitro. If the pigeons have
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now officially have been dispossessed, there's no longer a superstructure on the Donald Lake
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Memorial Interstate Bridge. The last piece came down yesterday, a sort of sad.
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You know, we drove by and there are maybe thirty or forty of
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the pigeons there. I'm thinking they feel like people who've got to layoff.
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Notice they know at the end is coming. It's gone. So now we're
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going to see if a new bridge, well, a new bridge is going
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to come in its place. It's an incredibly well done project. And I
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heard a segment on the New Chris's coverage Scott Edwards, the mayor of Hurricane,
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was talking about the traffic problems on Tees Valley Road which had been acute.
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I mean there were days when it was bumper a bumper the entire from
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Exit thirty nine, which is the Windfield Tees Valley interchange, and that sort
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of brought thirty four loops between that interchange and the Hurricane interchange. And even
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with the third turning lane was a lifesaver. We've got two stop lights and
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there a break up traffic it was just impossible. Apparently there was some mistiming,
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something happened to the signal timing that I got out of sequence, so
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there were not the breaks in the traffic that were needed to keep it moving,
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and that perhaps was addressed. I thought of that as I pulled off
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the interstate to get some gasoline. I was showing low and got off at
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the Virginia Street interchange, went on through to take Endolph Street and go down
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a couple of blocks out lead this Exon station where usually getting my gas in
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down here, and there's no traffic. I'm thinking, you know, there's
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a paucity of traffic in the Capital City and an abundance of empty storefronts.
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I drove up Lee Street and you know the building there that I think Danny
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Jones sister owns or owned it, where Danny's was originally was besides what used
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to be the cafeteria, and now it's the men store, and there's all
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you know, for lease for sale, for lease for lease everywhere. I
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mean, it's a value judge, but on my part, I think it's
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the function of you know, really high quality suburban living and now there is
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a proliferation of service businesses, other things that people like to have close to
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them. In Putnam County. It's truly the one area I think you can
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drive from the Scary Creek end of Teays Valley Road, down Route thirty four
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through Hurricane On down Route sixty through Coloding to Milton and feel like, well,
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I'm in North Carolina where I'm in a DC suburb. My wife and
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I were over in DC last week. We went through Moorefield to visit some
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friends and then on over the mountain to Washington, and you know what do
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you see? Traffic and diversity and people who have money. You realize that
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we I hope best for the future of West Virginia, but we've got a
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long way to go, and now we're caughting them throws of an approaching campaign.
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Nobody knows what Senator Manson's going to do. The governor says he's going
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to announce, we have other announcements, and all of a sudden genie this
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week Bam on television their ads about Joe's crazy or or just it's gonna get
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worse. I mean, this is April twenty twenty three and the primaries thirteen
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months away. It's gonna get worse, and if it ends up being a
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mansion versus Justice or a mansion versus Mooney, we'll certainly not give up our
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time slot because we can sub it out. We can have guests and charge.
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I mean, it's gonna be a heyday for the media. You know,
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we've got somebody like the Club for Growth that plays in ten million dollars
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to a candidate, And ten million dollars is not going to be a whole
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lot of money to be raised if you're talking about a swing seat in the
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United States Senate, right, But we'll see. And you talk about putting
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him counting getting a new exit at Kelodon, Yeah, let's and that'll just
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help out more. We think Target's going to open, well, Targets on
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the move. You know, there was a vacancy there. It was a
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big box store. It's part of t J Summers development there and it set
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vacant for a long time and it's housed various seasonal enterprises, a halloween store,
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a gift shop for the summer. But now Target has taken the building.
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They've completely redone it on the inside. I haven't seen the inside.
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The exterior looks really good and so at least the activity around in the ex
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at thirty nine, what we call the Windfield Interchange is good and good downtown
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of Winfield and Windfield is a strange county seat. It's really off the beaten
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path in Putnam County. It's a little rivertown, you know, that had
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a courthouse from the days when all the commerce was on the Kanara River,
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and there's a pocket boat landing there and had a ferry where you could cross
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the river before the bridge was built. And sleepy, I mean it was
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sleepy. Land was owned pretty much by two or three families that just farmed
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above and belowtown. And that's just transition in the last fifteen years. Pretty
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goodly leadership, good mayors, and need a little work on their sewer system.
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But take a look at that and watch for Fraser's Bottom to explode.
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I think there's going to be the development of a sewer line through Frasier's bottom.
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There's sewer and are now at the industrial park that goes under the river
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to Alaner. There's a huge there's a plant with a lot of excess capacity
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at Buffalo and a line under the river. But it just needs the infrastructure.
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It's going to happen so and I look forward to it. Well,
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I'll look forward to it as long as I live. I don't know that
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I'll live to see the big development in Fraser's Bottom that I predict. But
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New Corpse Steel people forget New Corpse Steel if it goes is closer to Buffalo,
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or as close to Buffalo in Bottom County as Point Pleasant in Mason County.
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There's Point Pleasants up the river right and it's just the way the river
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runs. The High River runs almost due north south right there, paralleling Route
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thirty five. So you get off at the Plantation Creek interchange and take a
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laught and go out Jerry's Runwell, in twenty minutes you're at New Coorp.
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So we'll see. I mean, it's pretty exciting to be a part of
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it. I've been in the Payton Law firm and we have our offices in
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Nitro, in the Putnam County portion of Nitro, right across the line there.
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We're at the corner of twenty eighth Street and First Avenue. We have
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a strong connection to Putnham County. The you know, most of our office
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staff lives there and grew up there. I grew up in Saint Albans and
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so did Tom, but we both now live in Putnham County. My grandkids.
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Tom's children went to school to hurric and my other grandkids are going to
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go to swether in Saint Alban's High School, in Saint Auban's Middle or now
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or Hayes Middle. So we have a strong connection to the community in Halfhead
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actually since nineteen seventy seven, which is a long time. Yeah, that's
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a long time for a county that head of about thirty three thousand people.
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And at the Windfield Interchange, exit thirty nine, there was not much and
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at the Hurricane interchange there was even less than not much. Right, you
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had the Mountain Vernon Baptist Church prominently on a high hill there overlooking the Windfield
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Interchange. Down at Herricane you had an old motel sitting up on the hill
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that I don't know if they had enough business to knock your hat off.
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There not much else. And now now what is it. That's fifty almost
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fifty years later, forty forty five years later, the county's got well over
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sixty thousand people, probably eighty seventy thousand people one on a workday, people
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who'd drive into work one of the better school systems in the state, good
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sound Infrastructure Planning Commission that takes care of watches for unbridled growth and development so
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we don't end up with cross lanes in your backyard. I highly recommend It's
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certainly been good to us and continues to be good to us. If someone
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you know, we do work pretty much all over southern West Virginia. I
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have a matter now, two matters pending in Logan County in the Circuit Court
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of Logan County. We've done some work in Mingo and a lot in Boone
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Fayette, but you know Jackson, Western Kanawa County, Mason County, and
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Putnam County, and some into Cavil County. It was sort of our bread
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and butter. That's our wheelhouse, although depending on the nature of the claim,
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we can geographically. I've tried case up and Wheeling and Tom Strip cases
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in Clevelandon, Columbus because he's licensed in Ohio. So if you know,
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if you're thinking about a law firm to handle a matter of litigation, it
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could be an injury to your person or a loss of life, or it
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could be a financial issue, a problem with an insurance company that won't pay
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or won't engagiating good faith with you on a claim. Give us a call
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or drop us an email at Payton Law Firm dot com or call us at
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three or four seventy five, five fifty five fifty six. I was listening
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to the show last week. Tom was on and talking about a case that
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he tried, which is not a big money case. Let's just be you
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can buy you can. You can spend millions of dollars to advertise on television
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that we're the truck lawyers of the world or we're the biggest in the universe.
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But when people need a case tried, they need help, the Payton
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Law Firm is there to help you. Certainly we've handled big cases. I
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mean you, I think the biggest civil verdict ever returned in Mason County I
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got from a jury, and Tom got one of the biggest stuff in mon
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County like four years ago. And we've been really successful in Columbus and Eggs
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County and certainly in Potton County where we've tried dozens and dozens of cases.
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So but you know, we practice close to our clients. We practice at
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sea level, so you're not going to generate the millions it takes to run
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big TV ads, But they don't try cases on TV. Right. You
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don't deal with clients on television. You don't deal with clients on a private
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airplane. You deal with clients in your office. You deal with the facts
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on the ground. We can go talk to witnesses and you can do interviews,
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and you can know who to talk to when you go into the courthouse.
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You know, first of the first person you want to talk to is
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the janitor, because they know where everything is and where's the restroom. And
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if you can't identify the janitor, it's usually a person who has like a
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mop and a broom with them, right, Which I'm not sure that if
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you're flying over in a private jet to come here from Florida and answer to
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adds that you can actually recognize. So that's my little proselytizing bit for the
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Payton Law Firm today. And a nice wind we talked about last week.
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But a nice wind by Tom and I think that's just the well it is.
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You know, you've got a land cot and listen. The plague of
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West Virginia. We were settled early on a lot of the transactions to give
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rise to land ownership of West Virginia happened in the nineteenth and the seventeen hundreds.
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The most important piece of legislation and acted in the United States in the
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seventeen hundreds was actually before the United States was the United States. It was
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under the Article's Confederation. We adopted the Land Act of seventeen ninety five seventeen
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eighty five, which defined how land was surveyed. But it started at the
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Ohio River and went west. So you've got a whole except for Texas,
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which was an independent nation. The whole of the balance. The country's laid
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off in squares. Six hundred and forty acres is a square mile, so
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you know, you take four of those and that's a section, and that
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it just preceded west and it promoted what it promoted, yeomanry. It promoted
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small or relatively small landownership. Now Here in West Virginia we operate off land
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grants from the King of England, or property given to Revolutionary War soldiers,
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or property given to veterans of the French and Indian Wars. So you have
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and property acquired from their heirs in the eighteen hundreds by jobbers. So you've
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got a cout me from Pennsylvania called Berwin, which ends eighty one thousand acres,
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and it caught me from Philadelphia called Beaver, which ends thirty eight thousand
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acres and ten thousand acres here and there. So when you've got that kind
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of landownership, they exert a hack of a lot of influence. They control
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development. We're gonna call yeah, Karen. Karen is on the line with
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Harvey Peyton. Karen, go ahead, thanks for calling him. I was
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wondering if Harvey could, um maybe explain when a security camera becomes an invasion
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of property or a person. Um, security cameras are being put up.
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You know in my neighborhood, we are our houses are fairly close together.
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Um. You know, I sometimes I like to set out on my porch
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and have a conversation with my husband, but I feel that, you know,
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it's being picked up on a ring or another type of device. UM,
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So could he maybe um explain what is invasion of privacy? Yes?
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Thanks for the best I can and I'm far from an expert in that realm.
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My son Tom would be more adapt however, that the key factor is
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reasonable expectation of privacy. Are you in an area where a reason person would
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expect your actions, your voice, your conduct to be private. Now that's
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not your front yard, right, that's not walking down a sidewalk. I
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mean you have no reasonable expectation of privacy cutting your grass out in the open,
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because anybody driving back and see you. Now, if you're behind a
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six foot security fence or visual barrier in your backyard and on your porch,
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we have a reasonable expectation of privacy, and you certainly do because you've taken
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steps to ensure that. And someone puts a camera on a pole or on
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a high enough on a house to invade your space, then that may be
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actionable. It's a five line. It's the reasonable is it in a place
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where one would have a reasonable expectation of privacy? Now, a private conversation
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with a spouse. If you're in the mall and you're talking to your husband
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or wife and somebody, oh, eaves dropper over here, as well,
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let's just shame on you. You're out in the public. If you're having
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the same conversation in the privacy of your back deck and someone intercepts that,
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that's actionable because it invades your reasonable expectation of privacy, and that's about There
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are a lot of nuances to this, you know, there are nuances in
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the workplace. Obviously, there are places where there is a complete reasonable expectation
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of privacy, one of which would be a woman's locker room and academy.
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Yeah, police training facility, and we're going to find out more about that.
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I assume as we go on some places audio is inappropriate if the needs
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of the employer can be satisfied with a visual of the employees. You don't
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have any business eave dropping on their conversations, as in a camera over a
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cash ready very little chance at what these people say is material to the employer's
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enters, at what goes on in and out of the cash drawer. But
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it's somewhat news, but generally it is a reasonable Are you a reasonable person
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and do you have a reasonable personalized expectation that your conduct is private and shouldn't
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be viewed or heard by others? Yeah? Best I can. Yeah,
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good question. Karen'm gonna take her one and only bring Yeah. Eight thirty
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nine. Harvey Peyton's with us at the Peyton Law Firm in Nitro. Karen
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It's a forty one on five by w CHS The Voice of Charleston. Lines
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are opening Harvey Payton of the Payton Law Firm in Nitro three h four three
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four five fifty eight fifty eight. Three H four three four five fifty eight
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fifty eight, and Harvey brought in some books. Well today, you know,
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it came to my attention looking at our firm website that we low those
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many years ago, sometimes maybe about two thousand or two thousand and one,
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gosh, when the irishman was still the producer. Spike, Spike, Yes,
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you want to go to the lines first, Okay, Yeah, John,
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John, you're on with Harvey. John, go ahead, you're with
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Harvey. Yes, save questions regarding the rights of the remainderment in an mistake
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and the light in it vacated the estate prior to his death and called and
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said you can have the property. But when he left, he also took
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the heat pomp m And I don't know if that's considered the thought, well,
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it's considered waste he had. I mean, it all depends on the
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nature of the instrument that created the life estate. If he had a life
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estate, and he despite the fact that he vacated the property, he still
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has an interest in the property and he could rent it or do whatever he
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wants to do with it, as long as he doesn't commit waste that permanently
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reduces the value or damages the domain, which might be the taking of heat.
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But you know, it depends on if it was a if it was
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a conveyance of occupancy only the right to live in an occupy a residence for
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so long as they desire that until they've vacated for a certain period of time,
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then well it's it's not theft, but it may be waste. And
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they when he took when he removed the heat pump, it allowed water damage
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in the house because of pipes froze and so the living room ceiling ruined,
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so was the kitchen cabinetry. Was he but he's still alive, correct,
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Yes, he's still alive, But he still has a life estate. Like
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I said, it depends he signed that over to us. So he executed
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a quick, quick to claim deed and sent it over to us. And
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you accepted it, right, Yeah, but record, well you took it
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as you got it. When he committed these acts, he still had a
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life of state. And then you you've you've acquired the entirety of it.
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I don't think that much of a case, tell you the truth. Okay,
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okay, thank you John, Thanks John. Yeah, I mean a
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life of estate. People seem, well, he's not living there anymore.
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Well, but if the document that created the interest in the land said you
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have a life estate, which means you have that property just as if you
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own it for the remainder of your life. It's not merely a grant of
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the right to occupy the property. It could be depending on the instrument that
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creates the interests. But a life estate is a life estate is that if
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you own it and the remaindermen are the term that he used, are those
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who get the remainder of the estate once the life tenant dies and nobody.
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If you own your house, you don't have to live there. And if
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you have a life estate, that's unrestricted. You don't have to live in
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the property. You have a life estate. Now. You cannot commit waste.
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That is one of the restrictions on a life tenant. You cannot simply
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abandon the property, not pay the utilities, let it fall in, let
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it become a derelict to the harm and permanent injury to the irreparable harm to
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the remainderman right. But as far as you know, you're removed a heat
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pump that was concurrent with a conveyance to the remainder money. I think it
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would be highly questionable whether that violated the rights of the life tenant. And
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in any event, it may be it may well be something that's insured against.
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It may well be an issue that, given the relative nature of the
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economic status of the parties, maybe a remedy without a right, without a
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remedy in any event that that happens quite frequently. I mean, the biggest
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advice I often give to folks who call and have suffered a loss as well.
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You know, you may have a right here, but what's the remedy?
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And I'm on the Voluntary Dispute Resolution Committee of the Western State Bar They
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set that up years ago and there's several of us around the state who volunteer
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to there's a fee dispute between in an attorney and a client or former client,
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we try to mediate well. So in this case, unfortunately the lawyer
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was his license was annulled. Talked to the clients. You know, they
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may well be that a sufficient amount of work wasn't done to earn the retainer.
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But you have a right. But what's the remedy. I mean,
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the guy's gone to ground. We'll do the best we can. And sometimes
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you have to tell folks economically you can't afford this. Sometimes you make you
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have inconveniences that are just not compensable. I had we had a leak on
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the roof of our house, which is a new house, and it was
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a problem with wind damage on some shingles that may or may not have been
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installed properly to all the building who you talked to, and but may or
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may not have been defective because they didn't seal properly. Regardless, we had
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wind damage and Here Insurance, it's a really good first line company, compensated
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it. In the contractor I told, send him an email. He said,
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well, I'm sorry you had to suffer this ordeals, and Greig,
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this is not a cancer as an ordeal, death of a loved one,
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is an ordeal, loss of a child's or this is an inconvenience. You
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know, That's what you have to explain to clients sometimes. You know,
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this is an inconvenience. We can deal with this. This is not an
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ordeal that's is going to go to the United States Supreme Court. Let's just
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let the temperature out of this thing here and see how we can get it
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resolved. Bringing down the temperatures a lot of it. But yeah, I
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was saying before early on, every now and then I would do a little
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book review, yes, or a book recommendation I've just finished. I don't
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know why, but I got on a reading jag here in the last three
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weeks or so and read some books that I think are relevant. One of
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them was written by a professor at the West Virginia University College of Law,
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James Van Norstrand. I've heard Jim van Dorston. You probably have his West.
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I mean he has the sustainability renewability section. They do teach environmental law
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and policy at West Virginia University College of Law. Wrote a book which actually
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was published by the Cambridge University Press, the Coltrap, how West Virginia was
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left behind and the clean energy revolution. Well that's Jim Van Norston's viewpoint,
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some of which I share, and so on which I don't. But I
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think the valuable thing about this book now, if anyone is interested. I've
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got a very good friend who's I'm not a very good friend who's who's a
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high position with American Electric Power. I said, we heard it. He
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said, oh, yeah, we've got that books. It's required reading because
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it explains when we're talking about, for instance, the Pleasant Power States,
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and you talk about the grid, you talk about PGM, who they are
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and how they operate. This book tells you, and it's fascinating how the
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how energy is marketed, how it gets in the money, and how planning
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is made on how long are you going to run this unit at this particular
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plan, how long this particular unit's going to run, and what are we
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gonna do with wind energy and how do we incorporate that and how does that
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all interface with the West Virginia Public Service Commission. So this is I'm sure
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it's available through Amazon. It's a soft cover paperbacks. It's somewhat scholarly.
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Admittedly it's written by a law professor, not necessarily as a tax but almost
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as an extended treatise, about three hundred pages. I would recommend it if
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you're interested in an academic sort of way in the way power is generated and
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has historically been generated in West Virginia, and how it is marketed now and
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how that has an effect on like the Pleasants Pire Station. I would have
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to say this. I agree with First Energy and Monpower, and that is
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why should they pay? I mean, if there's a determination. I've heard
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Hoppy talk about this, I've heard the governor talk about it. I've heard
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Chris Hamilton talk about it. I've heard Ruby Phillips grunt about it. If
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the reserve power generation that's available at the Pleasance Power Station is integral to assuring
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the grid over the next however many years. But it doesn't. But it
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can't make any money in the short term for any individual company to own it
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and sell the power because they never get in the money their costs or too
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high. Well, that's a public policy decision. If it maintained maintenance of
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the grid, maintenance of the power supply, avoiding blockouts, If that's what
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the politicians like county commissioners and state senator wars and governors and think is necessary.
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And perhaps it is. Why make First Energies rateholders alone, or pay
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for it, just pay for it, but the state Energy Authority acquire a
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title of the thing, keep paying one hundred and fifty men, keep bunding.
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You know, however, many a couple of million tons of coal up
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there. It's Caputo with the mind workers. They're jumping stiff legged over this
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thing because they think they're gonna lose some jobs. They want to Murry Energies
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form our minds in Marshall County. Well, but that's not Then the guy
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from First Energy said, we don't want to buy it. You know,
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we're we're we're we're making this proposal of the Public Service Commission because they asked
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us to almost mandated into and it's just a matter who's going to pay to
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me. It's not a question to stay open or not stay open. Apparently
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this even PJM says we need this play for marginal energy production and times of
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high demand to fall back on, to fall back on. Well, yeah,
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and the private enterprise is well that's fine, but we cannot afford to
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operate a plant on a fall back position when they're not in the money for
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marketing any other time. We just can't do it. Well, government does
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that all the time, don't they. They do it with medical care for
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older people, and they do it with the nutrition maintenance for poor people.
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I mean, if there are things that the private market can't do that the
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public policy says should benefit the common good and didn't do it, I mean,
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that's that's just my thought. And I actually I developed part of that
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thought from reading this book and seeing how worth the cold trap. Next,
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here's one two, number two, which has a deceptive title Appomattics. This
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was written by Elizabeth bare and this is an older book. It's probably available
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on on It was odd for less than five bucks. I bought this book,
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which was published by Oxford University Press Bike about twenty thirteen, for less
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than seven dollars at the bookstore near the theaters down in Pullman Square. And
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you think, well, this is just a civil that's what I thought it
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was. Well, this is a Civil War history of the campaign surrounding Petersburg
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and the retreat to Appomatics and surrender. Well in part, but this woman
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who is at the University of Virginia. Her premise in this book as there
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were two men seated at tables in the parlor of WILVERA. McLean's house an
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Appomatics Courthouse, Virginia in April eighteen sixty five, and each of them had
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a mindset about what was happening, which did not coincide the Ulystus Grant when
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he wrote these surrender terms that he put forward to Lee at one thought this
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will do this. Lee looked at those terms, said this vindicates that,
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and it's fascinating house. She follows this up through the post Civil War era,
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through reconstruction, and how the mindset of Grant and the mindset of Lee
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are still baked into and in opposition today. And that's the way I read
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it. So, I mean, it's a fascinating little to read. It's
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less than three hundred pages long. It is called Appomattox Victory, Defeat and
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Freedom at the End of the Civil War by Elizabeth van v r o N.
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That's one of Harvey's. David enjoyed it now the last one. And
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this is this book is chilling. It is terrifying in view of where we
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are today in the government of the United States. It's written by Timothy Egan,
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who is a best selling author. He has won the National Book Award.
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He was a columnists and writer for the New York Times. The title
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is A Fever in the Heartland. That's by Timothy Egan. E g A
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n It's from Viking Press. I believe yeah, Viking twenty twenty three.
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This one's a little cost it's about twenty bucks. You gotta buy it new.
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It just came out, but you got You can go on Amazon.
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You can probably find out a tailor books so they can get it for you.
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A Fever in the Heartland, the q klux Klan's plot to take over
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America and the woman who stopped them. It's almost spreads like a novel.
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It's built around the career of a man named C. W. Stevenson,
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Steve Stevenson, who became the Grand Dragon of the clan in Indiana, which
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in the nineteen twenties boasted six hundred thousand members north of the Ohio River in
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Ohio, Illinois, and Indiana. Think about that, and it was a
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part of Protestant congregations and preachers, the Masonic Lodge, politicians, policeman legislators
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developed incredible influence between about nineteen nineteen in nineteen thirty before the under corruption and
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rottenness of the leadership caused us downfall. It's absolutely spellbinding. It's about three
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hundred and thirty pages long, written and reasonably large print that even old people
35:37
like me can read. And again, the story of the rise and fall
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of Steve Stephenson is the core of the book, but the overwhelming theme is
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you know he's he Steve Stephenson in Indiana and his counterparts in Texas, Oregon,
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George, Ohio, Colorado figured out that getting people who thrive on hating
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their neighbors and loving themselves can be easily manipulated. And so the campaign not
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just against blocks, but against Catholics, European immigrants, Asians, people of
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Jewish faith worked. It worked, and these people were able to weave that
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into control of the legislatures in several states in the nineteen twenties before the other
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corruption and rotteness that idea repelled the American people and they were tossed out.
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I would highly recommend it, particularly, you know, we're in an age
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right now where it's not wait, your ford's who you hate? That seems
36:50
to predominate the political scenes among some. I mean, I understand from reading
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the New York Times, which I'm not ashamed of. I read the Wall
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Street Journaley or Time was Washington Post and Gazette and Metro News every day and
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get a little this from both sides that apparently there were some redacted Did you
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see this about the redacted messages that we're going to come out in an unredacted
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version at the trial of Dominion Voting Systems versus Fox News Corps written by one
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Tucker Swanson. Carlson, a trust fund baby who gets his money from the
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great grandparents who founded a frozen food fortune. Swanson that in their unredacted for
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him were so vulgar and repulsive that they had a board meeting two days before
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the trial, and I guess Lockin just said that we got to stop.
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Here's what we're gonna do. Tell the lawyers to settle the case and fire
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that guy next week. And that's what they did. I mean, it's
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