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Mountain Games Brings Appalachia to Life with Competition

Dust off your tomahawk, get your grandfather’s bow and arrows out of storage and practice your skill. Prepare to #claimyourheritage in the second annual Mountain Games. Sponsored by the Cabell Huntington Hospital (CHH) Foundation, Mountain Games brings a variety of events and challenges to test the true Appalachian. Mountain Games will take place at Heritage […]

Babst Calland Attorneys Named Lawyers of the Year 2018 by Best Lawyers

Law firm Babst Calland is pleased to announce that five attorneys were selected as 2018 Best Lawyers® “Lawyer of the Year” in the Pittsburgh, Pa. and Charleston, W. Va. areas. Only a single lawyer in each practice area and designated metropolitan area is honored as the “Lawyer of the Year,” making this accolade particularly significant. […]

Planning for Prosperity: A Q&A with Woody Thrasher

The new secretary of the West Virginia Department of Commerce is no stranger to promoting economic development. A thriving entrepreneur, engineer and business owner, Woody Thrasher has proven himself to be a successful businessman and is now tasked with putting those skills to work managing the state’s commerce department, bringing new businesses to West Virginia and helping diversify the state’s economy.

Introducing the Lawyers & Leaders: Class of 2017

In an effort to celebrate elite lawyers produced by the Mountain State who are solving problems and striving for balance, the West Virginia University (WVU) College of Law and West Virginia Executive magazine teamed up to create the Lawyers & Leaders honors program. This program recognizes the accomplishments of legal professionals who have made a positive impact on the state and the nation, who have dedicated their careers to serving others and their communities and who go above and beyond to make West Virginia and the U.S. better places to live.

Promising Perspectives

Two West Virginia nonprofit organizations are doing their part to fight for the Mountain State’s future through important research, data collection and reporting. The Cardinal Institute for West Virginia Policy is dedicated to researching, developing and communicating effective public policies and acting as a voice for free market, and the West Virginia Center on Budget & Policy is a policy research organization that supports informed public dialogue and policy. Through the information these two independent organizations provide, policy makers gain knowledge, perspective and guidance to assist in facing the great task at hand: finding a solution to the ongoing budget deficit by jumpstarting the economy, creating jobs and diversifying the state’s industries.