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02/19/2024 The Dave Allen Show on 580 Live - Naomi Bays, Jeni Riser, Rachel Brown · The Dave Allen Show

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go to the West Side this morning. Name of we base is with the
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West Side Neighborhood Association of Charleston and you joined us now and they at me
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good morning, Welcome to the show. Good morning, Thank you for having
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me. I'm probably going to need you to speak up for me just a
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little bit because she got a kind of a software. Well that's all right,
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it's turning anyway. You sounded good. Now, tell us about your
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organization, the West Side Neighborhood Association. What's it all about? So?
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The west Side Neighborhood Association is neighborhoods. It's neighbors helping neighbors. They've been
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around since nineteen ninety six. They've mostly just got started by helping each other
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do cleanups around the neighborhoods and do some beautification projects and just share information about
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events. And that's kind of what we're going to continue to do. But
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let me be on a bigger scale. This timeout bigger scale, bigger scale.
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So, like I said, been around since in nineteen ninety six,
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I'm their first director that they've ever had. Okay, So I've been around
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now since the beginning of October, kind of working behind the scenes and doing
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some you know, you're not behind the scenes anymore, right, right,
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right? You found me? I did, But I did I did.
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No, I kind of did that deliberately. I wanted to work behind the
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scenes a little bit, tighten the organization up a little bit, you know,
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do some policies and procedures, make sure everything's up on the up and
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up, and then you know, slowly make my debut and all the things
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that we're going to be doing. What is the I guess the mission statement
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as it were for the for the Neighborhood Association of the last time. It
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is a lengthy one, and I will fully admit I have not. Well,
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you memorized it, you know, No, you don't have to memorize
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it. Just just give us a basic idea. They see themselves as a
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convener for neighbors and organizations of the West Side, so they want to promote
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and assess and just amplify the things that are happening on the West Side.
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That's kind of how they see themselves. We will be having a strategic planning
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later this spring, so I'm excited for that to potentially have a much shorter
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mission statement than the one that we currently. Try to get it to two
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sentences anyway, No, I'd like to have one set It's like two here's
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what we do, Here's what we do. Yeah, I want to hear
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about good things going on on the West Side. So we have a lot
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of good things what we are planning to do in which I'm super excited for.
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So historically they've always done cleanups, right, and that was something that
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they had been doing for years, and then when the Good One administration came
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in, she kind of saw that what they were doing and kind of just
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took it city wide. So we are going to partner with the city for
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the one that they do in April, but then we're going to do three
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other large scale ones throughout the year. But while we're doing that, we're
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also going to encourage neighbors to love their block. So it's kind of like
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an adopt a block program. If you six eight of your neighbors get together
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and you do x amount of cleanups a year, you can get this permanent
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thing that will help your block, you know. And those things could be
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something along the lines of an artist designed trash can or an artist designed like
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permanent flower box or something like that. So those are the kind of the
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things that we're thinking about doing, and that idea is still kind of in
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flux right talking to you with Naomi Bays with the West Side Neighborhood association with
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because what you don't know can hurt you. You talked about this strategic planning
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session that you've got to cover it up. Get into that a little bit
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further. Well, most organizations should have a strategic plan, like what does
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it look like? What are you going to be doing in the next three
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to five years. So it just kind of is a guidepost for us what
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we're going to do. We are currently looking for more board members, So
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if anybody out there is interesting in joining our board, you can email me
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at west Side Neighbor three zero four at gmail dot com, or just find
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us on Facebook, Instagram, shoot me a DM like Dave did. Now
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Now what are you looking for in a board member. We are looking for
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someone that is living, working, or has property on the West Side.
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Someone that has some time to give and is really interested in moving, you
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know, moving it forward. There are some other little details that are available
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that we can send you the actual application form. But yeah, I mean,
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we just want it to be, you know, from the neighbors for
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the neighbors. Okay, So it wouldn't necessarily mean ideally you'd like to have
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either a business owner or a resident, but it could be somebody that spends
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a lot of time there is what you're saying, like, if somebody like
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if if that's what your job is, you own a business or whatever,
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but you don't necessarily live there, but you spend like most of us do,
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working, you spend the majority of your day there, then those folks
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would be, uh, would be eligible to serve as well. We have
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a board member right now. She works for an organization on the West Side,
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so she spends eight ten hours a day helping the west Side already,
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and she's a perfect fit for an organization because she just brings a different perspective
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and she also has a link to that organization for us and that works out
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really well for us. Let's talk about the business climate on the west side.
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You know, when we think about businesses in downtown Charleston, we think
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downtown proper, Capitol Street, whatever. But Charleston's a big old city by
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West Virginia standards anyway, and there there's a thriving business community in the on
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the west side. Talk about that absolutely. So you know, the west
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side is what we consider the west side is anything that's on the opposite side
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of the Elk River, So it concludes Westmoreland, big Ley area, all
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of the flats, Edgewood and into North Charleston to the Dunbar you know,
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city limits. So it's a huge area, like it is the biggest neighborhood.
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But yeah, it's thriving. There's all kinds of businesses down there.
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You know. We have like the latest one I saw was a selfie museum.
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We have two of those actual, Yeah, I know there's one there's
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an Elk City and there's actually one over on Patrick Street, so we have
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two of those. You know, There's all kinds of restaurants. I mean,
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it's just there's a lot of things going on there and it just takes
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you going out and take, you know, taking a good look at it.
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It seemed to me that over the last couple of years, maybe in
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the time that I've been doing this show, which has been four years,
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or maybe a little bit before that, that there seems to be a concerted
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effort on behalf of a lot of business people to want to locate businesses in
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that area. And it hasn't always been that way, No, it has
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not. And my guess is that you know, rent's probably a little bit
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more affordable and you might have a little bit more space. You know,
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downtown in the East End are probably a little bit more restricted by you know,
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how much space you need for what your business, and the West Side
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has a little bit more to offer on that. What do you think the
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biggest conception, a misconception, I should say misconception about the West Side is
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in your opinionail me, my big what I think is the biggest misconception is
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that it's unsafe. And and you know, while every city faces issues,
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it seems to me that it is a narrative that just keeps getting repeated and
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repeated. Not to say that there aren't safety issues, there are safety issues
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throughout the entire city, just some of them don't get talked about as much.
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Some of them are not you know, above the fold in the newspaper
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or you know, the thing that gets talked about. But it is a
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vibrant community. It is a they neighbors care about each other. They care.
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I mean, we saw that with the most recent gas and waterline crisis.
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People came out and took care of one another. That is something that
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does not necessarily happen in other neighborhood. It's in a city. Yeah,
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I was. Actually I've had a couple of city council folks on that represent
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that area and they keep repeating that the west side is the best side kind
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of the thing, and that's the very thing that they talked about. And
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not always is it the people that you see with the pictures on Facebook,
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or not always what the media focuses on. There's a whole lot of things
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going on that don't get reported on. And that's okay because a lot of
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times people aren't doing it for that reason. Right, Like, I have
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a few board members that work all behind the scenes, and I'd love to
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give them a little bit of love, but they do not want the spotlight
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whatsoever. But they when I talk to them about what they're doing, I
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mean, I am astounded by how much work they are doing in the community
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behind the scenes. Again, let's kind of reiterate what the whole reason for
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the organization is. Case folks joined us late the west Side Neighborhood Association.
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What do you have planned? Where can people learn more? So the west
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Side Neighborhood Association. We are here to help plans major cleanups, help you
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love your block, do some beautification this coming year. You want to find
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out more information, you can find us on Facebook and Instagram at west Side
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Neighborhood Association. We are working on a website. Hopefully that'll be coming in
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the next month. Cool all right, well, good stuff. You're doing
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a lot of good things rather thanil MA. I appreciate you taking time out
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of your schedule to be here today. Thanks a lot. Thank you so
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much. We appreciate it. Nail me Bays again for the west Side Neighborhood
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that. This Wednesday, the twenty first, is Special Education Day at the
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Legislator Jenny Burns Riser is here to talk about it. Hello, Hello,
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how are you. I'm very good, thanks for having us on. And
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we also have Rachel Rachel your last name again, Rachel Brown, Rachel Brown.
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And Jenny's pointing in herself. Well, I'm telling her to get closer
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to the microphone. They might not be able. Don't be afraid of the
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microphone, be afraid of me first time. You'll be fine. You'll be
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fine. So now you are a special education I'm a curriculum specialist. I
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help support sixty six self containing programs all throughout Kanawcunty schools K through twelve.
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And Jenny, and what do you do? I am a special educator for
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students with intellectual disabilities and autism at South Charleston High School. Okay, all
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right, how many students are we looking at there? Let's just take South
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Charleston High School for example. I have thirteen students. Two of them come
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to me for three classes and the rest of them I have for most of
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the day. Some of my students go out to what's called a work program
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that go out into the community. They go to Thomas Hospital and Little Creek
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Country Club and the South Austin Rec Center and get workplace skills. So they
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go there for a few hours every day Monday through Friday, and then they
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come back to me for English and math. Okay, yeah, talk about
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what's going on Wednesday at the Capitol. So Wednesday is, to my knowledge,
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the first ever special education day at the legislature. So we're going to
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have two hundred, three hundred, three hundred, about three hundred students,
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Yeah, three hundred students from around the state coming in to meet with our
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legislators to advocate for stronger classrooms and what they need in our classrooms and just
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to generally be seen talk about the need for special educators in our classrooms in
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West Virginia. Well, Rachel probably has a better idea because she sees in
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Kennall County, she touches all those classrooms. Out of my sixty six programs,
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about half of them are staffed with certified teachers. The other half are
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long term subs or alternative certification candidates, which means they have a degree in
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something else other than education and they are required to take classes and have a
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mentor. And luckily in our county we have a really really strong alternative certification
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program. But it would be like you with your four year degree, We're
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like, okay, you take these two tests and then we're throwing you in
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the classroom. Because that's where we're at. We are really really struggling to
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find qualified teachers and with a third grade Success Act that has really decimated our
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AID population. Yeah, why is that? Well, now, first grade
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this year in county schools has AIDS. Next year, second grade we'll have
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AIDS. In the following year, third grade we'll have AIDS. So that's
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three grades that they're going to have aids in all those classrooms. Our aids
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won't make a lot throughout the state, and it's an easier job. You
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know. In our classrooms, aids oftentimes have to deal with diapering. We
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have very, very challenging behaviors. We are the one percent of students,
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so we're not talked about very much, and our aids are responsible for tube
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feeding. There are so many lifting and in first grade you run a reading
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group and you help support the teacher, but you are not responsible for anything
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messy by any means or any challenging behaviors. And so unfortunately, a lot
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of my special education aides, who may love their job, have moved over
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to those first grade AID positions. Our pre K classrooms are struggling as well,
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because that is a very physical job, just like my classrooms, and
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ladies. From what I understand and doing a little research in this many people
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involved in special education. If I get this wrong, you can jump in,
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you can tell me otherwise. Would like to see something called self contained
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classrooms. Now, what exactly are those? Well, that would mean that
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the student most spends most of his or her time in one classroom without interacting
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with the general population. Okay, is that something that's needed or not so
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much, or I would like to see us move in an opposite direction,
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in the opposite direction. See I totally get the research wrong. Yes,
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Yes, more inclusive envirols okay. And because in the self contained setting,
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it's so hard to staff with qualified people, and our students deserve to be
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out with everybody else, not just in a classroom with a door shut.
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It's so easy to forget about them because they are the one percent, and
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oftentimes they're in a self contained classroom kind of door shut. And I can
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understand that completely. And I apologize for getting that wrong because I was reading
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I was thinking, well, what, so I left up the word not.
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I guess in there or not that's not what you're looking for. But
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nonetheless, I mean I completely understand as a non educator and a non parent,
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I completely understand what it is that you're saying here, is that there
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is there can be right or wrong, a stigma about this, and if
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putting these kids in areas where they're totally away from the other students can can
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further that stigment, I would think yes, and with people who are not
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qualified or experienced or highly trained, it's not the best experience for anybody at
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all. There are un A warm body into a classroom of students who have
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challenging behaviors and specialized education needs is not a solution to long term solution.
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It might be a short term solution, but it's not a long term solution.
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So Rachel and I are in alignment that we need to start looking at
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long term solutions to this problem when half, almost half of our classrooms are
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filled by folks, maybe even well intentioned folks, great people who want to
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work with this population of students, but we need a longer term solution to
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incentivize working with our student population. Is that the massive that you're going to
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one of the messages you'll be given to the legislature legislators that you meet with
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on Wednesday. Yes, we are currently working with Senator Amy Grady, who
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has introduced a bill that would give was also a teacher, who's also a
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teacher, who she's just introduced a bill that would give classroom teachers in self
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contained classrooms a ten percent raise and their aids a five percent raise as an
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incentive to choose these jobs. You know right now those we get paid the
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same rate as in any other special educator. But if you're given a choice
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between teaching students who have who might not have as many needs as a student
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who has severely challenging behaviors might be considered a behavior disorder or has toileting issues,
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or you know, in our case in high school, sometimes we have
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two hundred and fifty pounds men who are on the severe autism spectrum. And
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you know, who has challenging behaviors, who is entitled that free appropriate public
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education. And if you're someone who has a choice between them working with that
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guy, or you know, one classroom of students who have you know,
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mild learning disabilities, yeah, that you're helping to teach them to read,
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you know, compared to like last week, I was covering a classroom and
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I'm working with a larger fellow and he we use a term of lope took
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off and I'm trying to stand in front of the door so he doesn't leave
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the school smacked straight across the face. And that's that's you were physically.
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Oh, yes, yes, I've been kicked in the face. I've been
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bit. Some of our aids wear bite sleeves. One classroom, I went
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to go cover. They handed me bite sleeves that looked like bear bags.
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I don't know if you're a hunter or seen them. I was normally used
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to kevlar bite sleeves, but these bite sleeves were very thick. And those
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are behaviors we work on, and we expect our teachers and our aids to
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work with our behavior specialists to get through these and our parents need us for
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this. But when you're talking about making the same amount of money or a
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first grade aid right now, who makes it a tiny bit more money than
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a special ed aid? You're going to choose to go to first grade because
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it is traumatic unless you're a knucklehead like me or you. I know it
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in these classrooms because we love them. But our job is to teach those
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folks to be a member of our community and to be able to be in
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places like the legislature and not want to take off and run. Yeah.
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So while these behaviors might be challenging, as part of our job or part
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of our job, is to deal with these challenging behaviors so that they can
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the calling that teachers have. You know, there are certain professions, and
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I've always said this, whether it's maybe the medical field or a teacher or
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whatever, that you feel maybe a career in the military where you feel police
25:15
emergency services you feel that calling. And if you're going to be the successful,
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teachers no matter what grade, what level, whatever, have that calling.
25:25
I would think not to get too deep here, ladies, but I
25:27
would think that to do the kind of teaching that you folks are doing in
25:32
the schools, you really got to have had that special calling. Well,
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I feel like it's yes, I think you do have to have a calling.
25:40
But once you start working with these folks, you know, I'm the
25:45
one who who is blessed you know to be able to get to know my
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students and you know, be a part of their successes. For example,
25:56
I had a parent call me this weekend and said, you'll never know guess
26:00
what you know such and such today And I said, you know, he
26:04
what and she was like, he said, I eat and he's nonverbal.
26:10
So like just these little micro successes I get to be a part of,
26:15
which is like a giant leap for man con for this guy, you know,
26:18
to be able to verbalize his need is a huge accomplishment. So yeah,
26:25
well I think, you know, okay, it's a calling, yes,
26:27
but then I get ten times plussed. Yeah, you know, it's
26:30
the most rewarding job that you will ever have. I mean, gosh,
26:34
I have students that are now in high school and when I see them,
26:38
they leap into my arms. All right. Jenny has one of my former
26:41
students that I had for five years, and as soon as she saw me,
26:45
she left into my arms. I made such a difference in her life
26:47
and our family's lives, and teachers in self contained settings and our aids.
26:52
They become a member of people's families and these students' families. It's amazing work.
26:56
I mean, it really is amazing work. Hats off to both of
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you and everyone who does this sort of work. Yeah, it's you know,
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if we can't incentivize it through pay let me tell you you need to
27:07
try it, because these guys can be super challenging and they can wear you
27:11
out. But on the other side of it, you know, they come
27:15
back to school and they tell you that they missed you, and you know,
27:18
you get to see so much growth, and you know, throughout their
27:21
lifetime. I get my students. I can have them until they're twenty one
27:25
years old, so they might come to me when they're fourteen, and then
27:27
we're still you know, seeing each other twenty one, and hopefully I can
27:32
see them through adulthood. My husband works with adults with disabilities, so you
27:36
know, we can really keep that care going for a really long time throughout
27:40
their lives and to be able to help them live independently. The simple things
27:42
that we take for granted every day, like being able to drive, or
27:48
being able to go to the grocery store without being completely overstimulated and having a
27:53
meltdown, or knowing how to have this conversation between us. That's something that
27:57
we do organically, but some of our students literally do not know how to
28:03
have an organic conversation or to make friends. So it's a really cool job.
28:08
And you will have some students with you on Wednesday, You're gonna bring
28:11
some with you. I'll have all my students with me, bringing the whole
28:15
family. The whole crew's coming through, and we'll have a whole bunch from
28:18
our county as well. And I know, and how many other educators do
28:21
you plan on being there? Roughly? Do you have? I mean will
28:22
be others. Yes, there'll be a lot of educators coming with our students
28:27
to help support them. How many vendors do we have? We have a
28:30
ton of vendors too, you know, and they keep popping up, so
28:33
I want to say we have almost twenty vendors. We're gonna have Abbot's trucking
28:38
outside. They have an autism truck, and uh, there's gonna be lots
28:44
of fun things going. And we're gonna have a rally. Yeah, we're
28:45
having a rally Senator tar Amy, Grady, Mike Pushkin. Then I have
28:52
together they're all together this yeah, I know that face. It's a bove
28:57
partisan issue. It's really You've been beautiful to be able to see this bipartisan
29:03
effort, even if we don't get our bill pass, which I know we
29:06
will because I'm an optimist, but to know that this is a bipartisan issue.
29:11
You know, education can be bipartisan. And I said that kind of
29:15
as a joke. But what people may or may not realize, and he's
29:18
talked about it on the show. Senator Tarr has a special needs child,
29:21
ye, and he's talked about it on this show on numerous occasions. He's
29:26
the child is an adult. He's not a child, he's an adult now.
29:29
But he's he's dealt with this and that's great. I mean, because
29:33
so many things and you know, go ahead and blame the media. I'll
29:37
blame myself a lot of times we talk about it. And I'm going to
29:40
get into him after you guys are gone some of these divisive issues, but
29:42
so many things happen under the dome that are bipartisan. And you get a
29:47
Mike Pushkin together with an Eric tar with an ammigrated to make it happen right.
29:51
Ryes and the House did run a bill very similar to Senate Bill six
29:55
eighty as well, So everybody's on the same side. They're seeing the same
29:57
issues that we're talking about today, not having enough staff. And if General
30:03
d was staffed with half of our teachers in jen ED were not certified,
30:07
things would be moving like one hundred times faster. But we're the little tiny
30:11
one percent yea. And I would like to invite any general educator that would
30:15
like to come into our classrooms and take the job. We are open arms
30:19
right now. Yeah, And I'd love to invite any member of the legislature
30:22
to jump on their county sub list for our classrooms. There are no subs
30:27
in our self contained setting. It's very very hard to take off work.
30:32
Jenny last week her the flu is going around really really bad right now,
30:36
and her age was off and there was nobody to come. There's no subs
30:38
for her. Yeah, yeah, I was all by myself. But I've
30:41
got them. I got my kids on lockdown. It should be a great
30:47
day Wednesday. And of course Hoppy will be live at the Capitol on Wednesdays
30:49
there every Wednesday and Thursday and the AARP broadcast locations. So go ahead and
30:55
stop and get in touch with Hoppy and tell them, tell them you guys
30:56
want to go on the show. Okay, yeah, all right, as
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oppreciate you taking time ay schedules to be here. Thanks a lot. Rachel
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I still know this moment. Don't know why Rob Reel showed up in a
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you're going to be surprised by water wear, and he was right we
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Saturday night, and thanks to everybody had asked her of Charleston for making it
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all happened. Well, Hoppi, it's back the goat, as Dave Wilson
35:44
refers to him, He's back in the host chair. Following the week's vacation.
35:46
That's coming up at ten oh six with talk line. Top of the
35:50
show, Senator Joe Manchin, who announced on Friday and somewhat of an impromptu
35:54
speech at WVU that he would not be running for president. Now, I
36:00
don't know that the announcement was such a surprise, but the timing of it
36:06
was conventional. Wisdom would have thought he would have made a much bigger deal
36:08
out of the announcement, But that's just the marketing person I guess coming out
36:13
in me anyway. Senator Mansion will be a Hoppy's first guest, coming up
36:15
at ten oh six this morning, explaining his decision not to run for president.
36:21
Also on the show this morning, State Senator and candidate for Attorney General
36:23
Mike Stewart, more of the latest WU fraternity hazing bus Chris Steyerwaldt, Brad
36:29
Mcilhanny, Tony Coredian Moore. Coming up at ten o six, Mister Caridi,
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of course, we'll be talking about the men's basketball teams lost to Baylor
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over the weekend of the women team beating Oklahoma s talk lines coming up at
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ten o six now tomorrow on this show, Doctor Jason Sorens from the American
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Institute of Economic Research will be here. The new Charleston Police Chief, Scott
36:47
Dempsey will be stopping by the show tomorrow, as well as Republican State Party
36:53
chair or vice chair, I should say, Tony Hodges. That is all
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Mayor Goodwin made it official Scott Dempsey is the new police chief in Charleston.
37:29
He had been serving as the interim chief since last August. That announcement
37:34
formerly came again during the press conference Friday at City Hall. There had been
37:38
twenty seven or so people that applied for the job, some of those currently
37:45
serving as police officers in Charleston, some from other departments in the States and
37:50
some even from outside the state, and there were others there for the press
37:54
conference from around the law enforcement community here in the Canal Valley. They showed
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up for support for Chief Dempsey. He's been on the Charleston Police Department for
38:02
twenty three years, and again he'd been serving as the interim chief since this
38:08
past August after the previous Chief, ty Hunt resigned due to allegations of misconduct.
38:16
His deputy chief will be Jason Webb, who is an eighteen year veteran
38:22
of the police force, and a reminder that both the Chief Dempsey and Chief
38:25
Deputy web will be on the show tomorrow. And I think it's a good
38:32
move from the mayor following the ty Hunt stuff. I think the police department
38:42
here in Charleston needed some stability, and I think bringing in someone from the
38:50
outside, no matter how qualified he or she may have been, could could
38:55
possibly have further driven a wedge within the department. And as always, I'm
39:02
not sure, you know, everyone's not going to be happy with the mayor's
39:06
decision in a situation like this, because no one ever is. But Chief
39:09
Dempsey seems to have the support of from what I hear from the majority of
39:15
the force, and our news team interviewed actually some of those folks on Friday,
39:21
and I'll say this that even some of the harshest critics of the mayor
39:25
are applauding the decision. One of those that's on city Council reached out to
39:32
me even before the announcement was made on Friday and told me that they thought
39:38
it was a good move by the mayor. So there you go again.
39:43
We will have a chief and deputy chief again, both on the show tomorrow.
39:47
And if you want to read more about the appointment of Chief Dempsey,
39:52
Kat Skelton has a complete story about the appointment posted now at wv metronews dot
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com. Okay, along those same lines, maybe not everybody agrees because the
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texture says all that build up about a thorough hiring process and they hire internal,
40:09
should have gone to the outside. Says that what I said, not
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the new chief gets to work on another shooting in Charleston, this one happening
40:38
early Saturday morning. Happened at an apartment at the two hundred to Patrick Street
40:44
location around four am on Saturday morning. Thirty five year old Terrence Wilder was
40:50
the person shot, apparently in an argument between two guys. Story is they
40:57
had a meeting or somebody that at a down town Charleston location and went back
41:00
to an apartment and it ended up with mister Wilder being shot. Police currently
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looking for a black man six foot four muscular guy wearing a black jacket of
41:08
black jeans. Contact the police department if you know anything about it. Well,
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the Library Bill passed the House on Friday, House Bill forty six fifty
41:20
four, and as we've discussed it on the show, it removes the protections
41:27
for public libraries and librarians and school libraries from providing materials that could be considered
41:37
to be obscene. Now. The vote went eighty five to twelve, and
41:40
now HB forty six forty six fifty four will head to the Senate. So
41:46
basically, if it passes the Senate and assigned by the governor, the people
41:53
that are working at your library, your public library, your school library,
41:58
whatever the case may be, could be charged with a felony or fined up
42:04
to twenty five thousand dollars or go to jail if what is contained in books
42:09
is considered to be offensive. Now, the supporters of the bill say,
42:15
it's not a book ban, it just merely keeps these materials out of the
42:22
hands of miners, because you know, that's what kids do. They go
42:28
to the library to look at porn because they can't find it anywhere else,
42:32
you know, like on their phones where they don't have to be bothered by
42:38
words and such. Insert deep side here. Speaking of which, we now
42:46
have House Bill forty eight sixty seven that would require pornography websites. This is
42:53
within the sate of West Virginia. It would require pornography websites to provide some
42:59
sort of digital identification or to comply with a commercial or a governmental age verification
43:09
system of some sort. To keep kids under eighteen from accessing X rated materials.
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Now that passed ninety six to nothing and will now go to the Senate.
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And that sound you here, by the way, is your thirteen year
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says, can we please stop with this walk movement? In regards to the
46:47
library bill, I read the textura to break, and I'm not really sure
46:52
where the texture is going with that. It just seems to me that I
46:58
have said this before as I'm a conservative Republican, but it seems like there
47:04
are a lot of those, especially in Charleston, that want to spend more
47:07
time in people's lives than less, and that's really not the hallmark of the
47:10
conservative in my humble opinion, tex says, every wonder why the right wing
47:15
is obsessed with kids, pornography, obscenity, groomers, and genitalia. It's
47:21
a whole lot of projection, says a Texter House built forty two to ninety
47:27
nine. Brad has a story about it at wv metronews dot com. HB
47:30
forty two ninety nine would allow teachers, administrators, or other school personnel to
47:36
be designated as a school resource officer, meaning they too would be allowed to
47:40
carry guns in schools if they choose to. It would not be required,
47:44
but if they choose to. Of course, a teacher or staff could opt
47:49
in or opt out if they wanted to do this. I didn't have to
47:51
go through all the proper channels. That is one of the bills that is
47:53
being looked at as we speak. So again, on Friday, Senator Manchin
48:00
made it official he will not be running for president again. He is scheduled
48:07
to be Hoppy's first guest on talk Line coming up at ten o six this
48:10
morning. Hoppy back from vacation and he'll be in the host chair in Morgantown,
48:14
comeing up at ten o six. Senator Manchin is also the subject of
48:19
Hoppy's commentary this morning. You can read that in case you may have missed
48:22
it at wv metronews dot com. Now, the Senator says he doesn't want
48:29
to be a deal breaker, so he's out. Before he was in,
48:35
he was asked the question. He says, where can I do the most
48:39
good? And the Senator seems to think that it would be by going around
48:49
the country and educating and just I guess talking to people who feel his words
48:58
here, who feel homeless and helpless. Some words of the senator with the
49:05
current toxic environment in Washington. Remember this is the guy a couple of years
49:08
ago, even in his political campaign, ads said Washington sucks. I don't
49:15
think a lot of people would disagree with that. He referred to people feeling
49:22
like they have to automatically hate the other side, and again I would agree
49:31
with that too. And our current political climate, it seems that anybody that
49:42
is of a different political party or a different political mindset is automatically seen as
49:49
as my enemy. And I saw an interview over the weekend with the daughter
49:53
of Ronald Reagan wash and I just caught bits and pieces of it, but
49:58
she was talking about the friend ship that Reagan had with Tip O'Neil back in
50:02
the nineteen eighties. Oh, how far we have gotten away from that.
50:08
The announcement by by Mansion, though, it seemed to me that the timing
50:17
of it, as I said earlier in the show, seemed to be it
50:20
took a lot of people by surprise, not necessarily announcement, but the timing
50:23
of it, because as recently as Thursday, the Senator was in Cleveland saying
50:30
that if he did decide to run, he wouldn't rule out Met Romney or
50:35
Rob Portman, the Senator from Ohio, as possible running mates. So it
50:38
looks like both of those guys now will have to have to keep their day
50:43
jobs. And I heard Hobby's commentary when I was driving in this morning.
50:46
Again. You can read it at wv metronews dot com. I agree with
50:51
one hundred percent what Hoppy said is that Joe Manchin isn't going anywhere. I
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think he's still going to be around. He'll be part of the process,
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you know, And as far as Mansion goes, he's been a part of
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public service in West Virginia for several several decades, as you know, the
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legislature and as Secretary of State and as governor. Joe Manchin is very well
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spoken, and he's very pleasant to talk to and very media accessible. He
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always has been, and so I could see him making regular appearances on maybe
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the Sunday talk shows, or maybe on a CNN or Fox or MSNBC,
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or as some have said, I could see him in a cabinet level position
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serving under either President Biden or Trump, whomever wins in November, maybe as
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an energy secretary or something to that. I think, just thinking out loud
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again. Check out the interview with Hoppy coming up to ten o six this
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morning, and the big props for Mike Nolton the Metro News for breaking the
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story on Friday, way ahead of all members of the national media. A
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couple of quick text says, uh, finding a library for having an offensive
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book? Will they have a list of books that they'll be fined four?
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Just to woke? Oh my blank hurts, it offends me. Movement only
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Republicans, Okay, hold on a second, all right, only Republicans automatically
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hate the other side. Forever it's been called a rhino because you disagree with
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Republican dogma according to a texture. All right, we gotta go hobbies.
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Coming up with Joe Mansion at ten oh six, I will see you tomorrow.
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Till then, have fun and love. Somebody fight EIGHTHSA ninety six point
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